John Dunphey

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Position:
Midfield
Height:
6-0
Weight:
185
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Ridgewood, N.J.
High School:
Ridgewood

FEATURE STORY: The Twitchy John Dunphey

At Princeton
2026
Honorable mention All-American by USA Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse ... honorable mention All-Ivy League ... has started 13 games ... has 19 goals and 17 assists ... had 23 career goals and 15 career assists for his first three seasons and had four goals and three assists through six games this season, giving him 27 goals and 18 assists for 45 points, in 42 games with a career shooting percentage of .243 to that point ... in the last 10 games, Dunphey 15 goals and 14 assists, for 29 points, for an average of 3.2 per game, or triple his career average prior to that; he has scored those 15 goals on just 24 shots, which is a .625 shooting percentage.

2025
Played in every game, starting three ... finished season with six goals and six assists ... had at least one point in last five games after having five straight scoreless games ... had two goals against Duke ... had a goal in NCAA quarterfinal game against Syracuse ... had a goal in each Ivy tournament game ... had an assist against Towson

2024
Had 12G, 6A ... split time between first and second midfields ... had three goals against Yale in the regular season finale to get Princeton into the Ivy tournament

2023
played on the second midfield unit for the last six games ... had a goal against Penn State in the NCAA tournament ... had a goal in the ILT final against Yale and an assist in the semifinal against Penn ... has four goals and three assists ... had Princeton’s first goal against Cornell

At Ridgewood High School- Lettered three times in lacrosse and four times in ice hockey… varsity lacrosse and hockey Captain in 2022…In lacrosse as a junior was named to 2nd-team all-league, 3rd-team all-county, 2nd-team all-state… In Lacrosse as a senior was named to 1st-team all-league, 1st-team all-county, and 1st team all-state… In hockey as a freshman was honorable mention all-league, as a sophomore was 1st-team all-league and 3rd-team all-county, as a junior was 1st-team all-league, 2nd-team all-county and honorable mention all North Jersey, as a senior was 1st-team all-league, 1st-team all-county, 1st-team all-group, 1st-team all North Jersey, and nominated for North Jersey player of the year…2021 Under Armour All-American Underclass Team… Nike National All-Star 2021… played club lacrosse for NJ Riot… At RHS was a 4 year honor roll student…earned the David Vanderbusch Award for Excellence in Athletics.

Personal- Son of Paul and Megan Dunphey…both father and mother graduated from Providence College… older sister Molly plays lacrosse at Villanova… younger sister Emme attends Ridgewood and plays soccer, basketball, and lacrosse.