PRONUNCIATION
2025 | SENIOR SEASON
Second Team All-Ivy…Started all 10 games at linebacker ... Finished with 35 total tackles including 18 solo stops and 17 assists ... Recorded 7.0 tackles for loss totaling 17 yards and 2.5 sacks for 10 yards ... Forced four fumbles and added six quarterback hurries ... Most disruptive performance came against Princeton (Nov. 1) with five tackles, 2.0 TFLs for 11 yards, one sack for eight yards, and two forced fumbles ... Posted eight tackles against Brown (Oct. 25) ... Added six total tackles and 1.0 sack against Penn (Nov. 8) ... Recorded at least three tackles in eight of 10 games ... One of the most productive pass rushers and playmakers on defense.
2024 | JUNIOR SEASON
Saw action in all 10 games ... posted 10 tackles, including three solo stops and one sack ... recorded a season-high three tackles against Harvard (Oct. 11)...had three tackles and a sack against Colgate (Sept. 21) ... also added tackles against Yale, UAlbany, and Brown.
2023 | SOPHOMORE SEASON
Did not see varsity action
2022 I FRESHMAN SEASON
Did not see varsity action.
PRIOR TO CORNELL
Named first-team all-state on the defensive line as a senior at Prospect HS ... earned all-state, all-area and all-conference honors in his final season ... named to the all-state academic team in 2021 ... was the conference's Defensive Player of the Year as a senior captain ... he was a two-time all-conference track and field athlete as a sprinter and jumper ... he earned all-section honors in his final season.
PERSONAL
Benjamin Sarkis Sahakian is the son of Rafi and Diana Sahakian and has an older and younger brother ... his older brother, Micah, is also a member of the Big Red football team ... he is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
