PHILADELPHIA – After another successful season and a second-place finish in the conference standings the No. 11 University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team is well-represented as the Ivy League announced its All-Ivy selections for the 2023 season.
 
Seven Quakers earned All-Ivy recognition for the year, including four on the first team with two named unanimous honorees. It's the first time since 2019 and the third time in program history that four Penn players made first-team All-Ivy.
 
First-team All-Ivy: Piper Bond (Sr., SSDM); BJ Farrare (Sr., LSM); Sam Handley (Sr., M) – unanimous; Brendan Lavelle (Jr., D) – unanimous
Honorable mention All-Ivy: Peter Blake (Sr., D); Emmet Carroll (Jr., GK); James Shipley (Sr., M)
 
Handley is a unanimous First-team All-Ivy selection for the third time in his career and for the second consecutive year. A semifinalist for the Tewaaraton Award in 2023, he leads his teammates with 51 points, scoring a team-high 28 goals and 23 assists so far. Handley has three game-winning goals to his name and scored 12 goals in his final three games to the regular season including a career-high six at UAlbany to conclude the year. He has eight multi-goal games this season and has notched at least two assists in five straight games. Heading into the Ivy League Tournament this weekend, Handley continues to make his way up career lists, ranking fourth in program history for points (190), tied for sixth in goals (102) and fifth in assists (88). He's just eight points shy of becoming Penn's all-time leading scorer.
 
Lavelle earns an All-Ivy nod for the second straight season and is on the first team for the first time in his career. He slots in second on the team for caused turnovers with eight this season, while totaling 25 ground balls, the fourth-most on the team. He's been quite the presence this season on the backline, helping out goalie Emmet Carroll with an 11.34 goals against average.
 
Like Lavelle, Farrare also proved to be one of the league's best defenders once again, earning All-Ivy honors for the third time with 2023 being his first appearance on the first team. His seven caused turnovers rank tied for fourth on the team this season and is third in GBs with 29, second among non-faceoff specialists. Farrare played all 13 games this season for the Quakers after making an appearance in all 16 games in 2022.
 
Bond finished up a special regular season for the Red and Blue, wrapping up first-team All-Ivy laurels for the second year in a row. Outside of FOGO Chris Arceri, Bond had a team-high 33 ground balls for the Quakers this season, adding seven caused turnovers. He also scored an early-season goal against Duke. Bond was named the recipient of the Class of 1915 Award, handed out by the University of Pennsylvania's Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics (DRIA). The award is the department's most prominent senior award, which has gone to a men's lacrosse student-athlete for the third time in the last four years. Bond was also named the Quakers' Academic All-Ivy representative.
 
Shipley, Blake and Carroll are the Quakers' honorable-mention honorees for the year after spectacular campaigns on offense, defense and between the pipes. Shipley is fourth on the team in goals (10) this season and has the second-most assists to his name with 15 in all 12 games. Blake leads the team with 13 caused turnovers, adding 17 ground balls with a long-pole goal. And Carroll has been excellent this season in net, with a GAA of 11.32 and a .541 save percentage. He was the Quakers' only Ivy League Player of the Week this season, doing so on March 13, and was also a member of the USILA/Dynamic Team of the Week on February 21. Carroll ranks second among Ivy keepers in saves per game (13.17), third in GAA and fourth in save percentage.
 
Penn finished the regular season with a 7-5 overall record, going 4-2 in Ivy League play, tying for second place. The Quakers are the two seed in this weekend's Ivy League Tournament, facing three seed Princeton on Friday night at Columbia's Wien Stadium in New York City. The winner of that matchup will take on the winner of either top seed Cornell or four seed Yale Sunday in the Ivy League Tournament final at noon. Friday's games will air live on ESPNU while the title game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2.