George Caras

Photo by: Nicole Maloney

Height:
6-2
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Manhattan Beach, Calif.
High School:
Harvard-Westlake

Awards:
ACWC All-Academic Team (2020)
CWPA Scholar-Athlete Team (2020)

2024: Played in 29 games with one start…Scored 30 goals, drew 34 ejections and added four steals and two helpers…Contributed five goals and an assist against Occidental (Sept. 7)...Scored twice against Bucknell and drew one ejection (Sept. 15)...In the game against Iona, drew three ejections and tacked on one goal, one steal and a block (Sept. 28)...Hat trick versus No. 14/16 Harvard (Oct. 16)...Had a four goal game against MIT (Nov. 9)

2023: Appeared in every game, scoring 51 times and contributing 57 drawn ejections … Hat trick vs. George Washington (Sept. 2) … Hat trick and three drawn ejections vs. No. 16 Cal Baptist (Sept. 8) … Produced four goals and four drawn ejections vs. Chapman (Sept. 10) … Four straight multi-goal performances including two hat tricks (Sept. 30-Oct. 8) … Hat trick at UC Irvine (Oct. 15) … Corralled four tallies vs. No. 15 Pacific (Oct. 20) … Hat trick at No. 11 Harvard (Oct. 29) … Scored and drew five ejections vs. No. 6 UC Irvine in the NCAA Quarterfinals (Dec. 1).

2022: Saw time in 31 contests, making 12 starts … Had 36 goals and 55 drawn ejections for Princeton … Hat trick and three drawn ejections vs. George Washington (Sept. 3) and vs. No. 17 Fordham (Sept. 11) … Drew five ejections at No. 6 UC Davis (Sept. 17) … Collected six tallies and three drawn ejections at MIT (Nov. 6).

2021: Contributed 35 goals and was second on the team with 72 drawn ejections … Began the season with four straight games with a goal (Sept. 4-5) … Secured a tally in three consecutive games (Sept. 12-18) … Back-to-back multi-goal performances (Oct. 2) … Hat trick and three drawn ejections at No. 2 Cal (Oct. 20) … Consecutive hat tricks vs. Biola (Oct. 24) and at No. 11 Harvard (Oct. 30) … NWPC Rookie of the Week (Oct. 25) … Scored a goal vs. No. 1 UCLA in the NCAA Quarterfinals (Dec. 2).

2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19

Before Princeton:
Harvard-Westlake: CIF D-I SS All-League Second Team in 2019 … Futures Super Finals All-Tournament Second Team …Team's leading scorer in the 2019 CIF SS D-I Semifinals and Finals … Led the team to consecutive CIF SS-DI titles in 2018 and 2019 ... Lettered in swimming … Swimming team was a three-time Mission League finalist … Member of the National Society of High School Scholars … USA Water Polo Academic All-American.

USA Water Polo: ODP All Star in 2019 … ODP Coastal Zone twice … National Team Selection Camp – Development Squad … Earned Bronze Medal at the 2015 USAWP ODP National Championships … All-America Honorable Mention Junior Olympics 12U in 2014 … Team was Junior Olympics 18U Finalist in 2017 and 2019 and a semifinalist in 2018.

Personal: Son of Christie and Bill Caras … Has two siblings, Katie and Collin.

Career Stats:

Season	GP	Goals	Shots	Assists	Steals	Sprints (W-L)	Ej. Drawn	Ejections	Blocks
2021		35	73	3	13	3-1	72	21	3
2022	31	36	72	2	14	0-0	55	18	1
2023	34	51	96	2	12	1-0	57	18	5
2024	29	30	51	2	4	0-0	34	20	4
Career		152	292	9	43	4-1	218	77	13

Career Highs:
Goals: 6, at MIT (11/6/22)
Assists: 1, 8x - MR - vs. No. 18 Brown (10/1/23)
Steals: 3, at No. 20 St. Francis-Brooklyn (10/8/22)
Ej. Drawn: 6, vs. No. 3 Cal (9/5/21)
Blocks: 1, 9x - MR - vs. No. 6 UC Irvine (12/1/23)