Ryan Ambler

Position:
Attack
Height:
6-1
Weight:
190
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Rydal, Pa.
High School:
Abington

At Princeton

Career highs

Goals 5 vs. Rutgers (4/5/14), vs. Penn (3/14/15)

Assists 5 vs. Hofstra (2/22/14), vs. Rutgers (3/17/15)

Points 8 vs. Penn (3/14/15)

2016 - team captain

2015 - second-team All-Ivy League selection ... was second on the team in assists (29), third on the team in points (51) and fourth in goals (22) ... will be the team's leading returning points scorer ... had at least four points in eight of 14 games ... reached the 50-goal mark for his career with a goal against Lehigh ... is the 15th player in program history with at least 50 goals and 50 assists in a career ... had a goal and two assists against Cornell in the Ivy semi ... had four goals against Harvard ... had two goals and two assists against Cornell in the regular season ... tied career high with five assists against Rutgers ... had three assists in the Ivy championship game against Yale ... had five goals and three assists against Penn ... five goals against Penn tied career high; eight points were new career high ... had a goal and four assists against Lehigh ... had three goals and two assists against Johns Hopkins, including the tying goal with seven seconds remaining ...had four goals in the opener against Manhattan ... had a goal and three assists against Stony Brook, going over the 100-point mark for his career ... had three assists against Brown ... had two assists against Hofstra

2014 - a second-team All-Ivy league selection ... was second on the team in goals and points and third in assists ... went from 11 goals as a freshman to 24 as a sophomore ... had a career-high seven points against Dartmouth (3G, 4A) ... had career-high five goals against Rutgers ... had career-high five assists in the win over Hofstra ... had two goals and three assists against Hopkins ... had two goals against Yale, including one to tie the game at 15-15 with 1:52 to play ... had a goal and assist against North Carolina and Brown ... had a goal and assist against Manhattan

2013 - had 11 goals and 17 assists for 28 points as a freshman ... started first nine games but did not play against Rutgers and Dartmouth due to injury ... returned to start final four games ... had an assist against Cornell ... had three five-point games (Villanova, Manhattan, Brown) ... two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week ... also named Cascade/Inside Lacrosse Freshman of the Week after one-goal, four-assist game against Brown ... had two goals in regular season against Yale, with Princeton’s eighth goal with four seconds left in the third and then ninth goal 1:04 into the fourth in 10-9 win ... had three goals and two assists in the win over Villanova for first career five-point game ... also had three goals and two assists in win over Manhattan ... had a goal and assist against Cornell in Ivy tournament semifinal win ... had two assists against Syracuse ... began career with a four-point game against Hofstra (1G, 3A) to earn first Ivy League Rookie of the Week award ... had a goal and two assists to snap a 3-3 tie as Princeton built a 6-3 lead in the second quarter; Hofstra would never pull even again ... was the fourth Princeton player with four points in opening game of his freshman year (Ryan Boyle in 2001, Jesse Hubbard in 1995, Jason Buttles in 1993) ... had one assist against Johns Hopkins ... was the second Princeton freshman in two years to start the first game of his freshman year on attack after Mike MacDonald did last year; prior to MacDonald, the last time a Princeton freshman started Game 1 of his freshman year on attack was 2004, when Peter Trombino did so

At Abington

Lettered four times in lacrosse and once in basketball ... team won three league titles and advanced to state tournament once ... All-America senior year ... first-team all-state junior and senior year ... MVP of conference junior year ... played in Warrior 40 junior year ... three time first-team all-league ... had 186 career goals and 210 career assists for 396 career points ... National Honor Society ... played club for Dukes and Bandits

Personal

Born Sept. 22, 1993 ... father, Bob, is all time leading scorer at Drexel and is a member of the PA Lacrosse Hall of Fame ... mother, Maureen, is a graduate of Shippensberg University and is the Director of Education and Training at Berkshire Hathaway Trident Land Transfer Services ... sister Deirdre captained the soccer team at East Stroudsberg University and is a Health and Physical Education teacher at Abington ... sister Corie graduated from Penn State, is a Project Manager at McCarthy Construction, and is an MBA Candidate at UPenn Wharton Business School ... brother Colin, two-time captain at Drexel under Chris Bates, two-time scholar All-America and former Princeton assistant coach, is the CTO at NXTsports, and an MBA Candidate at University of Chicago - Booth Business School

Major

History major with a U.S. history concentration