University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Career Honors
2023: Second-team AFCA All-America
2023: Third-team Phil Steele All-America
2023: Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year
2023: First-team All-Ivy
2023: All-ECAC Defense
2023: Fourth-team Phil Steele FCS Midseason All-America
2023: Second-team CSC Academic All-America
2023: Academic All-Ivy
2023: CSC Academic All-District Team
2023: PhillySIDA Academic All-Area
2022: Honorable mention All-Ivy
 
2023: Received All-America honors from two publications including the AFCA (second team) and Phil Steele (third team) ... Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, Penn’s first recipient of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup since 2015 and 10th all-time … First-team All-Ivy selection … An All-ECAC selection on defense ... Fourth-team Phil Steele FCS Midseason All-America … Totaled 12.0 tackles for loss, ranked first on the team and second among Ivy League defenders … Also finished with four sacks for a loss of 30 yards … Tallied 50 total tackles (with 23 solos), ranked fourth on the team … Finished the year with four QB hurries, a pass breakup and a blocked field goal … Picked up 3.5 TFLs with a sack in a win at Bucknell (9/23) … Registered a season-high 11 tackles vs. Brown (10/27) … Picked up sacks in back-to-back games to end his season against Cornell (11/4) and at Harvard (11/11) … Ranked the third-best interior defensive lineman in all of college football and the best in FCS by Pro Football Focus (PFF) … Academic All-Ivy recipient ... Became Penn's first CSC Academic All-America honoree since 1999, landing a spot on the second team ...  Also a member of the CSC Academic All-District team ... PhillySIDA Academic All-Area selection.

2022: Honorable mention All-Ivy selection … Started all 10 games … Totaled 49 tackles, fourth-most on the roster … Tallied the second-most sacks on the team with 4.5 for a loss of 26 yards … Finished with four QB hurries and two pass breakups, both leading to interceptions … Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week after picking up seven total tackles with 1.5 sacks and a pass breakup against Yale (10/22).

2021: Appeared in nine games … Saw action on the defensive line … Finished the season with 16 tackles and 3.5 TFLs … Had 0.5 sack at Bucknell (9/18) … Recorded a sack against Dartmouth (10/1) … Had a season-high five tackles at Yale (10/23) … Registered a sack versus Brown (10/30).

High School: Captained football team … First-team All-State football selection in 2018 … Named All-Long Island in football in 2018 … Named All-County in football in 2018 … New York State Wrestling Champion in 2019 ... Ranked Top 12 in the country at 285 pounds ... Named All-State in wrestling in 2018 … Named All-Long Island in wrestling in 2018 … Finalist for 2018 LaBue Award presented annually to the top academic football player in Suffolk County … National Honor Society member … Ranked No. 12 in the country at 285 pounds by InterMat … Ranked No. 17 in the country at 285 pounds by FloWrestling … Ranked No. 17 in the country at 285 pounds by TheOpenMat.com … 2018 Fargo Junior All-American in Greco … 2017 USA Wrestling Folkstyle All-American … 2018 New York state championships runner-up … 2018 and 2019 Eastern States champion … 2018 County runner-up … Four-year letterwinner … Also lettered in football and tennis … Served as team captain … National Spanish Honor Society member … Volunteer coach with Commack’s middle school wrestling team … Volunteer football coach.
 
Personal: Son of Dana and Paul Slackman … Father played football at Ithaca College … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.