GAME INFORMATION
GAME #13: Cornell vs. Princeton
FACE OFF: Saturday, April 29, at 3:00 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field (Ithaca, N.Y.)
2017 Records: Cornell (4-8, 2-3 Ivy League); Princeton (9-4, 4-1 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads, 41-37-2
LAST MEETING: Princeton won 7-6, April 30, 2016 in Princeton, N.J.

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THE MATCHUP: The two winningest programs in the history of the Ivy League will meet for the 81st time when the Big Red welcomes No. 13 Princeton to Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, April 29 at 3 p.m. The teams feature the top two freshmen in the nation in Michael Sowers and Jeff Teat, who rank third (5.38) and eighth (5.00) in the country, respectively, in points per game. Cornell (4-8, 2-3 Ivy) saw its postseason hopes dashed last weekend with a loss at Brown, while the Tigers have won their last two Ivy League contests to improve to 9-4 overall and secure a spot in the Ivy League Tournament with a mark of 4-1 in the conference. The game will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network, while fans can also hear the game locally on WCHCU 870 AM or 95.9 FM.
 
SENIOR DAY SALUTE: Today's contest marks the final game for the eight members of the Class of 2017 – Walt Gahagan, Andrew Keith, Chandler Kirby, Christian Knight, Grant Mahler, Ryan Matthews, Dan Nemirov, and Marshall Peters. As a group, they have won two Ivy League championships, have participated in a pair of Ivy League Tournaments and appeared in two NCAA Tournaments.
 
SERIES HISTORY VS. PRINCETON:  The Cornell and Princeton rivalry began in 1922 with an 11-1 victory for the Tigers. Princeton would dominate the next 24 meetings, winning or tying all but one contest, to help it to a 41-37-2 record in the all-time series. Cornell would win 22-straight games vs. the Tigers from 1968 to 1989, but Princeton is still the only Ivy League team to boast a winning record against the Big Red, as they again dominated the series throughout the 1990s. Cornell has won 11 of the last 17, but Princeton is currently on a two-game winning streak. 
 
LOOKING AT THE TIGERS: Princeton has won each of its last two Ivy League contests to improve to 9-4 overall and 4-1 in the conference. The Tigers feature one of the most potent offenses in the nation, ranking third in the country in goals per game (14.46) and first overall in assists per game (9.54). Princeton has three players with more than 50 points on the year, led by freshman phenom Michael Sowers, who has amassed 70 points (33 goals, 37 assists) and broke Rob Pannell's Ivy League record for points by a rookie. Senior Gavin McBride leads the Tigers with 46 goals, while senior Zach Currier ranks second behind Sowers with 32 assists. In goal, junior Tyler Blasidell ranks fifth in the nation in saves per game (12.62) and is 12th overall in save percentage (.562), while posting a 10.49 goals against average. Princeton has struggled in the face-off circle, ranking 43rd in the nation with a .478 winning percentage. In total, eight different Tigers have taken at least one face-off, with Currier proving to be the most successful (80-of-143; .559). Like the Big Red, Princeton has not allowed its face-off woes effect its ground ball success, as the team ranks ninth in the nation with 32.23 ground balls per contest.   
 
LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON: In a game where goals were at a premium, Princeton's Ryan Ambler scored the Tigers' lone goal of the second half, snapping a scoreless drought of 30:07, to hand the home team a 7-6 win at Sherrerd Field at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The goal ended Cornell's comeback bid and sent the Big Red to 6-7 overall (1-5 Ivy), its first losing season in 18 years. Despite the late goal, Ambler was not the hero for the Tigers, an honor that went to senior goalie Matt O'Connor who came in after halftime and made 11 saves while allowing just two goals to earn the win. The goalie play was outstanding for both teams, with Brennan Donville posting 10 saves and allowing seven goals in his final game in a Cornell uniform. The Big Red dominated possession, wining 11-of-17 face offs, and held edge in shots (40-29) and ground balls (33-28), but allowed Princeton to score three man-up goals, two of which came in 5-of-4 situations, and all of which came in the first quarter. The Tigers went on to score the first three goals of the second quarter before taking the 6-4 lead into halftime. As it has done all season, Cornell's offense came from a myriad of players with the Big Red's six goals coming from six different players. Ryan Matthews and Kason Tarbell scored early to stake the visitors a 2-0 lead, and Marshall Peters made it a 3-2 game after consecutive man-up goals by Princeton's Gavin McBride had tied the game at 2-2. McBride netted the hat trick with his third man-up goal of the game to send the teams into the first break tied at 3-3. Princeton scored three consecutive goals, with two coming from Riley Thompson, giving the Tigers their final goals until the game-winner. Cornell scored its lone man-up goal of the game when Colton Rupp took a pass from Clarke Petterson to send the teams into halftime at 6-4. After the break, O'Connor stopped the first four shots he faced before Zach Ward scored off a pass from Tarbell to make it a one-goal game with 4:08 to play in the third quarter. It took 13:28 before Cornell would score again, this time with Jack Bolen notching a goal in transition to knot the game at 6-6 with exactly 12 minutes to play. Cornell had two great chances late in the fourth, but Petterson's straight away shot dinged off the pipe and a shot by Matthews with 1:40 to play was gobbled up by O'Connor to end the threat. Defenseman Tony Britton finished the game with two assists, one ground ball and one caused turnover, while Ryan Bray also added one assist.
 
A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD:
• snap a two-game winning streak by the Tigers.
• improve Cornell to 5-3 over the final eight games of the season.
• secure at least a fourth place finish in the Ivy League with a record of 3-3.
• cut Princeton's lead in the all-time series to 41-38-2.
• be the first over a nationally ranked opponent this season.
• improve head coach Matt Kerwick's record to 3-2 vs. the Tigers.
• be the 746th win in program history.
• improve Cornell to 255-105-1 all-time vs. the Ivy League.
• make Cornell 71-73 all-time when unranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
• make the Big Red 12-4 all-time vs. the No. 13 ranked team in the USILA Coaches' Poll.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Matt Kerwick (31-26, .544) was named the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse at Cornell University on June 11, 2014. Kerwick, who served in the position on an interim basis during the 2014 season, became the 11th head coach in the programs' 121-year history ... Kerwick has 18 years of head coaching experience (133-127).
 
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS:
• Cornell associate head coach Peter Milliman came to Cornell after one season as a member of the Princeton coaching staff, helping the Tigers to a 9-6 record overall and a mark of 4-2 in the Ivy League in 2013.
• Colton Rupp, Jack Bolen, Marshall Peters and Princeton's Mark Strabo all attended the Landon School.
• Walt Gahagan, Scott Flynn and Princeton's Matt Brophy, Sean Connor and Christian Schade all attended Deerfield Academy.
• Jordan Dowiak, Chad Otterman and Princeton's Emmet Cordrey and Will Reynolds all attended Delbarton School.
• Patrick Karey and Princeton's Carter Flaig both attended St. Paul's School.
 
RECORD WATCH: Freshman Jeff Teat enters the game with 60 points and is looking to break Rob Pannell's rookie scoring record of 67 points in 2009. Teat sits seven points behind Pannell and over the past nine games he is averaging 6.4 points per contest.
 
CURRENT CAREER NUMBERS:
• Freshman Jeff Teat has more career points (60) and more career assists (32) than any other player on the current Big Red roster.
• Not including first-year program Cleveland State, Teat is the only freshman in the nation to currently lead his team in career points ... He is also the only freshman in the nation to currently lead his team in career assists.
• The player on the team with the second most career points is sophomore Colton Rupp (45), while the player with the second most career assists is sophomore Clarke Petterson (19).
• Sophomore Colton Rupp has more career goals (38) than any other player on the current Big Red roster.
• There are only five players on the 2017 roster that have more than 30 career points, and four of them are underclassmen – junior Jordan Dowiak (35), sophomores Colton Rupp (45), Clarke Petterson (43), and freshmen Jeff Teat (60) and Connor Fletcher (31).
• There are only 10 players on the 2017 roster that have more than 20 points. Of those, more than half (6) are freshmen and sophomores.
 
UPWARD TRENDS:
• After starting with an 0-5 record, the Big Red has gone 4-3.
• Since moving into the starting line-up vs. Colgate, Walt Gahagan caused at least one turnover in seven straight games, averaging 2.9 over the seven contests. Prior to that, in his role as a man-down specialist he had caused just three turnovers in three seasons … He currently ranks ninth in the nation with 2.0 CT per game.
• Through the first five games of the season, opponents cleared the ball successfully .865 percent of the time (90-of-104). Since that time, Cornell has implemented a 10-man ride and has held opponents to a .737 percent success rate (104-of-141).
• After registering just two points in his first three collegiate games, Jeff Teat has been phenomenal, registering 58 points over nine games (6.4 points per contest).
• With 60 points and 32 assists this season, Jeff Teat has registered more career points and career assists than any other player on the current Cornell roster.
• Cornell has assisted on at least .650 percent of its goals in each of the last five games, including a season-high .900 percent at Brown (9-of-10).
• Cornell has assisted on at least .750 percent of its goals in each of the last three games.
 
NATIONAL FRESHMAN:
• Jeff Teat ranks fifth nationally, and is the second highest ranked freshman, in assists per game (2.67).
• Jeff Teat ranks eighth in the nation and second among all freshman in points per game (5.00).
• In both categories, Princeton freshman Michael Sowers ranks first.
• Jeff Teat ranks 31st in the nation and fifth among all freshman in the nation in goals per game (2.33).
• Brandon Salvatore ranks 20th in the nation, and first among all freshman, in caused turnovers per game (1.58).
 
FRESHMAN CLASS POINTS:
• The Big Red's current freshman class has amassed 99 points from seven players – Jeff Teat (60), Connor Fletcher (31), Austin Fingar (3), Paul Rasimowicz (2), Sam Duggan (1), Ryan Maloney (1), and Brandon Salvatore (1).
• The Class of 2020's 99 points are the most in program history for a rookie class ahead of the 2009 freshmen (86) and the 2016 freshmen (82).
• During the 2009 season, the 86 freshmen points came from three players – Rob Pannell (67 points), Roy Lang (11 points), and Mitch McMichael (eight points).
• Last season's freshmen class is now the third highest scoring rookie class in program history with 82 points coming from seven players – Colton Rupp (24 points), Ryan Bray (22 points), Clarke Petterson (15 points), Anthony Teixeira (nine points), Zach Ward (seven points), Jake McCulloch (four points) and Conor O'Brien (one point).
• There are just four rookie classes in program history that have amassed more than 75 points, with the fourth class coming from the 2002 freshmen that had 76 points from three players – Sean Greenhalgh (42 points), Justin Redd (31 points) and J.D. Nelson (eight points).
• In the 41 seasons since freshmen became eligible to participate in varsity athletics, Cornell has had a freshman class register at least 40 points just eight times (2017, 2016, 2009, 2006, 2002, 2003, 2000, 1995).
• There have been 17 seasons in which the Big Red received just single-digit points from its freshmen (2015, 2014, 2008, 2007, 2005, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1981, 1978, 1977).
• Cornell has had three seasons in which a freshman did not register a single point (2007, 1986, 1978).
 
THE PETTERSON-TEAT CONNECTION:
• Clarke Petterson and Jeff Teat both attended The Hill Academy.
• Of Petterson's 27 points on the season, more than half (16) have involved Teat.
• Teat has assisted on seven of Petterson's 14 goals this season.
• Of Petterson's 13 assists on the year, nine have come on goals by Teat.
 
FRESHMAN MARKS:
• Freshman Jeff Teat and Connor Fletcher have combined for 91 points, making them the highest scoring freshmen duo in Cornell history, surpassing Rob Pannell and Roy Lang, who combined for 78 points in 2009. 
• Jeff Teat ranks second among all Big Red freshmen in assists (32), behind only Rob Pannell who handed out 42 assists as a rookie in 2009.
• Teat is also second among Cornell freshmen in points (60) and third overall in goals (28).
• Connor Fletcher also ranks sixth among all Big Red freshmen in goals (22), seventh overall in points (31) and eighth in assists (9).
• Freshman Brandon Salvatore ranks second among all Cornell rookies in caused turnovers (19), second behind Jason Noble, who posted 27 caused turnovers in 2010.  
 
CORNELL STREAKS
• Clarke Petterson has the longest point scoring streak on the team having registered one point in each of the last 10 games.
• Jeff Teat has registered one point in nine consecutive games.
• Jeff Teat has tallied at least five points in five consecutive games.
• Walt Gahagan has caused at least one turnover in seven straight games.
• Christian Knight has double-digit saves in three consecutive games.
 
INDIVIDUAL NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red has several players ranked in the top 25 in the nation in …
• Assists per game – Jeff Teat (5th; 2.67)
• Points per game – Jeff Teat (8th; 5.00)
• Saves per game – Christian Knight (9th; 12.08)
• Caused turnovers per game – Walt Gahagan (9th; 2.00)
• Caused turnovers per game – Brandon Salvatore (20th; 1.58)
 
IN THE NCAA RANKINGS: The Big Red ranks in the top 25 in the nation in …
• Ground balls per game (7th – 33.00)
• Caused turnovers per game (10th – 8.83)
• Clearing percentage (12th – .895)
• Points per game (17th – 18.33)
• Assists per game (13th – 7.17)
• Saves per game (15th – 12.17)
• Scoring offense (23rd – 11.17)
 
GROUND BALL FACTS:
• Cornell ranks seventh in the nation in ground balls per game (33.00).
• Of the teams ranked in the top 10 in ground ball per game, Cornell is ranked the lowest in face-off win percentage (67th).
• Of the other nine teams ranked in the top 10, five rank in the top 10 of face-off win percentage (Albany, Army, Penn State, Brown, Yale), with three others (Loyola, Rutgers, Virginia) ranked in the top 25. 
• The other two members of the top 10 – Lehigh and Princeton – rank 28th and 43rd, respectively in face-off winning percentage.
• Despite ranking in the top 10 in the nation in ground balls per game, Cornell does not have a single player on pace to finish with 100 ground balls, which would make 2017 the first season without a 100-ground ball guy since the 2012 campaign.
• Jeff Teat currently ranks third on the team with 31 ground balls. If he remains in third place, he will be the first Big Red attackman to finish in the top three on the team in ground balls since Ryan Hurley picked up 47 in 2009.
 
MOVING ON UP IN CORNELL HISTORY:
• Marshall Peters ranks fourth in caused turnovers (58) … He needs five more to move into third place.
• Christian Knight ranks eighth in career saves (431) … He needs 23 more to move into seventh place.
 
CORNELL SINGLE SEASON MARKS:
• Jeff Teat ranks 24th in points (60) and needs just four more to jump into the top 20.
• Teat enters the weekend tied with Chris Danler (1995) for fifth place in Cornell history with 5.00 points per game.
• Teat ranks 19th in assists (32).
• Teat is currently 10th overall with 2.67 assists per game.
• Walt Gahagan ranks 12th in caused turnovers (20) and needs just one more to jump into the top 10.
• Gahagan is currently averaging 1.82 caused turnovers per game, good for fourth in program history.
• Brandon Salvatore ranks 14th in caused turnovers (19) and needs just two more to jump into the top 10.
• Salvatore is currently averaging 1.58 caused turnovers per game, good for seventh in program history.
• Christian Knight ranks 26th in saves (145) and needs 10 more to jump into the top 20.
• Knight is currently averaging 12.08 save per game, good for 19th in program history.
 
DOUBLE-DIGIT SAVES: Christian Knight has posted double-digit saves nine times this season, matching his career-high of nine 10 save performances in 2014.
 
250 IVY WINS: With its 8-2 victory over Dartmouth on March 28, 2015, Cornell became the first program in the Ivy League history to reach 250 regular season conference victories … The Big Red's 254 regular season conference wins are also the most conference wins by any school in Division I men's lacrosse history.
 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK: Jeff Teat has been named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice this season. The first award came on March 13 following his 11-point performance vs. No. 13 Virginia. He took home the honor again on April 17 after posting 14 points on six goals and eight assists vs. No. 1 Syracuse and Lehigh. His six points and four assists are both tied for season-highs by an opponent this season against the Orange.
 
SINGLE GAME ASSISTS:
• Jeff Teat has posted two of the highest single-game assist tallies by a freshman in Cornell history.
• His six assists vs. Virginia are the most ever recorded by a Cornell rookie.
• Teat's five assists vs. Dartmouth are tied for the second most by a freshman in Big Red history.
 
GAHAGAN'S GAME RECORD:
• Senior defender Walt Gahagan tied the Cornell school record for caused turnovers in a single game with six vs. Dartmouth on April 1.
• The mark was previously held by Jason Noble, who achieved it twice during his career.
• The six caused turnovers were also the most this season in NCAA Division 1 until Virginia's Scott Hooper posted seven vs. Robert Morris on April 11.
 
FLETCHER'S FIVE GOALS:
• Freshman Connor Fletcher had a hand in six of Cornell's nine goals vs. Penn with five goals and one assist.
• His five goals are tied for the second-most ever scored in a game by a Big Red freshman, behind Sean Greenhalgh's six goals vs. Syracuse in 2002
• Fletcher is the first Cornell rookie to record five goals since Greenhalgh did so vs. Dartmouth on April 13, 2002.
 
NO SHOT: The Big Red held Dartmouth without a single shot during the first quarter of its 14-5 victory over the Big Green on April 1.
• Dating back to the 2003 season, when shots by quarter began being recorded regularly, Cornell had never held an opponent without a shot in a quarter.
• The previous low had been one shot, last done by Penn in the fourth quarter of a 16-11 Big Red victory on March 24, 2012.  
 
SAVE STREAK: Christian Knight opened the 2017 season by registering at least 10 saves in six games, and in seven consecutive games dating back to the 2015 season finale. That was the longest double-digit save streak of his career, and the longest by any Big Red goalie since Justin Cynar stopped 10 shots in eight consecutive games during the 2000 season.
 
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE:
• Cornell has enjoyed a true home field advantage since beginning play on Schoellkopf Field in 1972, going 233-83 for a .737 winning percentage, with 12 undefeated seasons.
• Cornell has been even more impressive since 2000, going 100-29 overall (.775) with perfect slates in 2015 (6-0), 2011 (8-0), 2009 (6-0), 2007 (7-0) and 2005 (6-0).
 
NOTING TEAT'S 11-POINT PERFORMANCE:
• Jeff Teat registered 11 points on five goals and six assists vs. No. 13 Virginia on March 11.
• The 11 points were the most scored in NCAA Division I this season for one week before Hobart's Chris Aslanian registered 13 points vs. Wagner.
• The six assists and 11 points are the most ever recorded by a Cornell rookie.
• The 11 points are the sixth most in Big Red history.
• Teat becomes the first Cornell player to register 11 points in a contest since Tim Goldstein '88 vs. Dartmouth on April 23, 1988.
 
RANKED OPPONENTS:  Of the Big Red's 13 opponents this season, five are currently ranked in the USILA Coaches' Poll – Syracuse (first), Albany (seventh), Penn State (10th), Yale (11th) and Princeton (13th) … Cornell 0-4 vs. ranked opponents this season.
 
EXPERIENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
• The 2017 Big Red roster has just seven players that have played more than 35 career games – Marshall Peters (57), Andrew Keith (52), Walt Gahagan (44), Christian Knight (41), Jake Pulver (40), Jordan Dowiak (39), and Kason Tarbell (39).
• Cornell has just 11 players with 20-35 games played – Ryan Matthews (31), Scott Flynn (30), Jack Bolen (29), Dan Bockelman (27) Clarke Petterson (25), Colton Rupp (25), Charlie Estill (25), Grant Mahler (24), Chad Otterman (23), Fleet Wallace (23), Ryan Bray (22), and Jake McCulloch (20).
• There are 28 players on the Big Red roster that have played in less than 20 career games.
 
THE NOTABLE JEFF TEAT:
• Jeff Teat was named the No. 1 overall recruit in the Inside Lacrosse 2016 Power 100 Freshmen Rankings.
• He is the Big Red's first-ever Inside Lacrosse No. 1 recruit.
• He is Inside Lacrosse's first-ever overall No. 1 to hail from Canada.
• Last year, as a member of the Ontario Junior A League's Brampton Excelsiors, he finished the regular season as the leading scorer in the league with 145 points (7.6 points per game), the highest point total since John Grant Jr. registered 160 in 1994.
 
GOALIE ASSIST: When Christian Knight assisted on Jeff Teat's goal with one second to play in the third quarter vs. Hobart on Feb. 24 it was the Big Red's first point by a goalie since Ted Lynch registered an assist vs. Colgate on April 13, 1993.
 
THROWBACK NUMBERS:
• The 2017 roster features two unique numbers on it - #51 and #77.
• Freshman Jeff Teat is the first player to wear #51 since Jerome Dolins wore it in 1966.
• Sophomore Tom Reilly is the first Big Red men's lacrosse player to ever wear #77. 
 
LOTS OF WINS: Cornell's 12-10 victory over Princeton on April 26, 2014 was the 725th win in program history. The Big Red now has 745 victories, ranking seventh among the winningest programs in collegiate lacrosse.
 
FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET: On Dec. 21, 2014, Marshall Peters tied the Cornell Department of Athletics record for fastest 40-yard dash, running it in a time of 4.38 seconds and matching the mark set by Max Seibald in 2008. Administered by Tom Howley, Associate Director of Athletics for Athlete Performance, the dash is laser timed and the record is across several sports in the department.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN:  The Big Red has four captains this season – seniors Ryan Matthews and Marshall Peters, junior Jake Pulver, and sophomore Clarke Petterson … Petterson is the first sophomore captain in the history of the men's lacrosse program. 
 
ELITE COMPANY:  Over the past 10 seasons (2007-2016) only 10 schools have registered 100 victories – Duke (151), Syracuse (126), Denver (122), Maryland (122), Notre Dame (120), UVA (116), Cornell (115), North Carolina (110), Hopkins (105), Loyola (105) … During that span, only seven teams have won at least 70 percent of its games – Duke (.766), Notre Dame (.755), Syracuse (.754), Cornell (.723), Maryland (.713), Denver (.709), and UVA (.703).
 
MILLIMAN TABBED TO ASSIST TEAM USA: Peter Milliman, the Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Associate Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse, has been named an assistant coach for the 2019 U.S. men's national indoor team.The team will be led by Regy Thorpe (Syracuse University), who in February was named head coach of Team USA, and will guide the team in pursuit of a gold medal at the 2019 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Indoor Lacrosse Championship (WILC), Sept. 19-28, 2019, in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
 
HARD HAT: Jake Pulver was selected to carry the Hard Hat for the 2016 season. The tradition of the Hard Hat began in the fall of 1999. Midway through the fall season, a player is selected to carry the Hard Hat for the year. The recipient is someone that the coaches feel demonstrates a blue-collar approach to the game of lacrosse; he is driven and selfless, not the most talented player on the field, but consistently the hardest worker. He puts the team first, and embodies how the coaches want Cornell players to act and respond on or off the field.
 
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS:  Junior defenseman Jake Pulver was named a preseason honorable mention All-American by Inside Lacrosse Magazine.
 
FAMILY TIES:
• Head Coach Matt Kerwick's parents Thomas and the late Patricia, as well as his sister Ann, all graduated from Cornell.
• Andrew Keith's brother, Thomas '13, was an All-American long-stick midfielder for the Big Red, earning four varsity letters from 2010-13.
• Ryan Matthews' cousin Matt Sutherland played lacrosse at Cornell.
• Sam Welch's parents, Patrick '85 and Ruth Welch '87, are both former Big Red athletes. A two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association champion at 150 pounds, Patrick is in the Cornell Hall of Fame, while Ruth was a three-year letter winner for gymnastics, serving as team captain as a senior.
• Dan Nemirov's mother, Jamie, as well as one aunt and his maternal grandfather all graduated from Cornell.
• Scott Flynn's grandfather Norman Penney attended Cornell Law School and later served as both a professor in the law school and Dean of University Faculty.
• Charlie Estill's grandfather Frederick Siefke graduated from Cornell in 1948.
• Troy Revello's older sister Grace attends Cornell.
• Anthony Teixeira's great-uncle Stephen W. Fillo graduated from Cornell in 1959.
• Connor Fletcher's father, Daniel, graduated from Cornell in 1985 and his great uncle, Bob Mealy '51, is considered one of the best runners in Cornell track history and is a member of the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame.
• Griffin Buczek's brother, Connor '15, was an All-American lacrosse player for Cornell and currently serves as the team's volunteer assistant coach while attending Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and playing professionally for the Florida Launch … His aunt, Colleen Cottrell Calderwood, also attended Cornell.
• Ryan McDonald's uncle, Dan McDonald, played lacrosse at SUNY Potsdam and served as an assistant coach for the Big Red under Richie Moran from 1995-96 ... His aunt, Tina Mahoney graduated from Cornell in 1988.
• Griff Gosnell's great-uncle, John Gude Gosnell, graduated from Cornell in 1950.
• Josh Gully's father, Josh '83, lettered twice for the Big Red lacrosse team and he is the 22nd member of his family to attend Cornell.
 
RECAPPING 2016: One of the youngest teams in the nation, the Big Red finished the 2016 season with a 6-7 record overall (1-5 Ivy), with four of its seven losses coming to nationally ranked opponents. Cornell managed two upsets on the season, defeating No. 17 Virginia, and taking down No. 11 Syracuse in overtime for Cornell's first win over the Orange since 2012. Of the 39 players that saw action during the 2016 season, more than one-third (15) were freshmen, including seven that started at least one game. The freshman class proved to be the second highest scoring rookie class in program history with 82 points coming from seven players. Following the season, Cornell had five players named All-Ivy. Brennan Donville '16, John Edmonds '16, Domenic Massimilian '17 and Jake Pulver '18 were named second-team, while Ryan Matthews '16 earned an honorable mention selection. All five players were first-time honorees. Donville was also named an YRL Unsung Hero finalist, and was a USILA Scholar All-American, along with Matt Schattner '16.