PHILADELPHIA – The Ivy League has announced its 2022 All-Ivy teams in men's lacrosse, and the University of Pennsylvania was well-represented with two first-team selections, three second-team honorees, and four other players who received honorable mention recognition. The nine All-Ivy players ties a program record for a single season, originally set in 2019.

Player of the Year: Sam Handley (Sr., M)
First-team All-Ivy: Piper Bond (Sr., SSDM): Sam Handley (Sr., M) - unanimous
Second-team All-Ivy: Dylan Gergar (Sr., A); Brendan Lavelle (So., D); James Shipley (Jr., M)
Honorable mention All-Ivy: Peter Blake (Jr., D); Patrick Burkinshaw (Sr., GK); BJ Farrare (Sr., LSM); Jamie Zusi (Sr., FOGO)
 
The honors were headlined by senior midfielder Sam Handley, who was voted the Ivy League Player of the Year and unanimous first-team All-Ivy by the Ancient Eight coaches. Handley becomes just the fourth Penn player named Ivy League Player of the Year in men's lacrosse and the first since Chris Conforti was honored in 1991. Penn's other previous Player of the Year honorees are Josh Hall in 1984 and Chris Flynn in 1988.
 
One of this year's captains, Handley leads Penn overall with 54 points, scoring 27 goals and dishing out a team-high 27 assists. He was tops among Ivy League players in assists per game (3.00) and points per game (5.83) in conference play and had at least three points in all but one regular-season game this season. The highlight came in Penn's 21-20 overtime loss at Princeton, when he fell one assist shy of the program's single-game record set in 1969 and scored three goals for an 11-point day. The Inside Lacrosse National Freshman of the Year and unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2019, Handley is one of 25 semifinalists for the Tewaaraton Award and was recently honored with the University's prestigious Class of 1915 Award. Handley also is Penn's Academic All-Ivy recipient in men's lacrosse this season.
 
Senior Piper Bond joins Handley on the first team as the top short-stick defensive middie. Also a captain, Bond is tied for the team lead with 11 caused turnovers and has 19 ground balls. At the offensive end, the senior has two goals and two assists for four points, three of them coming in Ivy play.
 
Senior attacker Dylan Gergar, junior James Shipley, and sophomore defenseman Brendan Lavelle were all named second-team All-Ivy.
 
Gergar leads Penn with 37 goals and has 13 assists for 50 points this season. That includes six-goal performances at Dartmouth and against Duke, and the senior captain has scored multiple goals in all but one game this season with at least a hat trick in six contests. He also has nine caused turnovers and 33 ground balls.
 
Shipley has 15 goals and six assists for 21 points this season, including the overtime winning goal against Saint Joseph's last Tuesday and the winner with just one second left against Penn State. He had at least a point in all six Ivy games and went for multiple points in three of them.
 
Lavelle, who was an honorable mention Midseason All-America by Inside Lacrosse earlier this season, has typically been assigned the opponents' top offensive player this season. He is tied for the team lead with 11 caused turnovers and has 24 ground balls.
 
Senior long-stick middie BJ Farrare, senior face-off man Jamie Zusi, senior goalie Patrick Burkinshaw and junior defenseman Peter Blake received honorable mention recognition.
 
An honorable mention All-Ivy pick in 2019, as well, Farrare is a menace on the wing during faceoffs and has scooped up 37 ground balls. He also has 11 caused turnovers this season, tied for the team lead, and has recorded two goals (against Duke and Brown) and six assists with the long pole.
 
Zusi is Penn's primary face-off specialist and ended the regular season with a .523 win percentage on 237 draws. That includes a 21-of-29 performance in a win over Cornell and an 18-of-22 day in an Ivy win against Harvard.

Burkinshaw started in goal in 11 of Penn's 12 games and ended the regular season with a .543 save percentage, a number that jumped to .551 in Ivy play. He led all Ivy keepers in saves per game in conference play (14.50). 
 
Blake is the fourth player on the roster with 11 caused turnovers and has 15 ground balls on the season. He also had a goal against Harvard and an assist the previous week vs. Brown.
 
Penn finished the regular season 8-4 overall and went 3-3 in the Ivy League. The Quakers are the fourth seed in this weekend's Ivy League Tournament and will face top seed and host Brown on Friday night in the second semifinal game. If the Quakers win that, they will meet either second-seeded Cornell or third-seeded Yale in the ILT final Sunday at noon. All three Tournament games will air live on ESPNU.