Chad Palumbo

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Position:
Midfield
Height:
6-2
Weight:
205
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Newton, Mass.
High School:
Noble & Greenough

CHAD PALUMBO FEATURE STORY

At Princeton
2026
Tewaaraton Award Top 25 Nominee ... first-team All-Ivy League ... Ivy League All-Tournament Team ... leads the team with 36 goals ... is second with 60 points ... second on the team in assists (24)... has gone from two to 26 to 28 to 36 goals and from two points to 37 to 47 as a junior and now to 60 in his four seasons ... started this season at midfield and moved to attack after one game ... has at least one goal in 14 of 15 games — only game without a goal was regular season game against Yale ... had five goals against both Penn and Brown ... tied the Harvard game with 1:41 to go ... has 25G, 11A in nine career postseason games (six Ivy tournament, three NCAA) ... three-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team selection ... team tri-captain ... No. 7 overall selection in the recent Premier Lacrosse League draft, by the Carolina Chaos

2025
Inside Lacrosse second-team All-American ... USILA third-team All-American ... second-team All-Ivy League ... named to Ivy League all-tournament team each of the last two years ... had six goals and two assists in NCAA quarterfinal against Syracuse .. six goals in that game came on six shots and tied Princeton's single-game NCAA tournament record ... had four goals against Cornell in Ivy final .. .had four goals against North Carolina ... had eight multi-goal games ... went from 2G, 0A as a freshman to 26G, 11 las a sophomore to 28G, 19A this season ... has 19G, 7A in seven career postseason games (four Ivy tournament, three NCAA)

2024
Had 26G, 11A … second-team All-Ivy League second-team All-Ivy League … started every game … had seven goals and an assist in the Ivy tournament to make the all-tournament team … had five goals against Penn in the semifinal … had more goals as a sophomore than any other Princeton player who had two or fewer as a freshman … the first Princeton sophomore middie to be in double figures in goals and assists since Gavin McBride in 2015 … had the most goals by a Princeton sophomore middie since Tom Schreiber had 30 in 2012 … came back from cancer as a HS senior … every player shaved his head as a part of a fundraiser …

2023
had two goals in his first game, against Monmouth ... became the seventh player to play for Matt Madalon who had two goals in the first game of his freshman year, along with: Michael Sowers, Phillip Robertson and Chris Brown and current players Alexander Vardaro, Alex Slusher and Coulter Mackesy

At Noble & Greenough School – Varsity four times in Lacrosse and three times in Football. Varsity Lacrosse captain, helping lead Nobles to an ISL Championship Senior year. Under Armour All-American, US Lacrosse All-American, Adrenaline All-American, 2x All-New England, All-ISL. USA U18 Team.

Personal – Son of Keith and Jennifer Palumbo, both graduates of Lehigh University. Brother to Julia and Whitney Palumbo... Julia a Senior at Lehigh University, and Whitney a Freshman at the Noble & Greenough School.