College

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.

It was another overtime classic. This time, Tampa did not call timeout and Tommy Ortega delivered the game-winning goal for the Spartans' second NCAA championship.

An early injury and a pair of overturned goals provided the spark for Northwestern.

Battling a torn ACL, Gresham couldn't watch from the sidelines in the NCAA championship game.