Charlie Kolkin

Position:
Defense
Height:
6-3
Weight:
185
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Owings Mills, Md.
High School:
Gilman

Did you know? ... Charlie Kolkin was the Division I Player of the Week after Princeton’s win over Cornell a year ago.

At Princeton
2009 - No. 1 longstick midfielder... started at close defense against Dartmouth...second on the team with 14 caused turnovers... 2009 preseason All-America... returned to lineup after missing game against Canisius with a minor injury; it was first game missed in his career... named Nike/Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week after Princeton’s win over Cornell last year... held Cornell All-America John Glynn without a point a year ago

2008 ? played in every game as top longstick midfielder ... named Nike/Inside Lacrosse Division I Player of the Week after Princeton’s win over Cornell...also named Ivy League Player of the Week after Cornell game...led a defense that held Cornell scoreless for 31:27...held Cornell All-America John Glynn without a point...had an assist against Penn ... 2007 - honorable mention All-Ivy League ... played in every game, starting two on close defense when Zachary Jungers was injured ... No. 1 longstick midfielder ... made first career start on close defense against Dartmouth and held Green’s Brian Koch without a goal; Koch had scored five against Albany in previous game ... also started against Brown ... scored first goal of career in win over Rutgers ... 2006 - played in every game as longstick midfielder ... was top longstick midfielder during late season while John Bennett was injured.

At Gilman
Lettered three times each in lacrosse and football and once in indoor track ... all-metro in lacrosse ... played center in football and was part of the 800 meter relay team in track ... honor roll student.

Personal
Born Jan. 21, 1987 ... son of Mitch Kolkin and Kathy Pontone ... both parents are lawyers ... father graduated from Penn undergrad; mother graduated from Vassar ... older brother Thomas played lacrosse at Yale before graduating in 2007 ... an art and archeology major ... senior thesis is on the effects of foreign political relations on Carolingian architecture in the late eighth and early ninth-centuries.