College

Cassese spent the previous three seasons under former head coach Lars Tiffany.

Princeton lost just two games all season and ripped off 12 straight wins after a loss to Cornell on March 21.

Madison Taylor bookended her historic college career with NCAA championships, leading Northwestern to the 2026 title.

Reagan O'Brien, JJ Suriano and Brigid Duffy also earned national honors.

Cassese spent the 2024-26 seasons on Lars Tiffany's staff overseeing the offense.

Chad Palumbo, Colin Burns and Ryan Croddick powered the Tigers to a 16-9 win, completing Matt Madalon’s decade-long rebuild and restoring a lacrosse blueblood to the top.

When Princeton goalie Ryan Croddick is seeing the ball well, Chad Palumbo says, "This team feels unstoppable." That certainly proved true championship weekend.

Unheralded relative to certain teammates, Colin Burns has proven as pivotal as any of them in Princeton's pursuit of its first national title in a quarter century.

His first assignment out of Air Force Academy? Grad school. The destination? South Bend. Playing lacrosse in the national championship? Gravy.