Biography
CAREER STATISTICS
2019: 16 played/0 started, 3 goals, 6 assists, 9 points, 9 shots, 37 GB, 18 CT
2020: 5 played/0 started, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points, 2 shots, 17 GB, 6 CT
2021: N/A
2022: 16 played/2 started, 2 goals, 6 assists, 8 points, 6 shots, 55 GB, 19 CT
2023: 13 played/1 started, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points, 3 shots, 33 GB, 8 CT
CAREER: 45 played/4 started, 5 goals, 12 assists, 17 points, 20 shots, 131 GB, 45 CT
CAREER HONORS
2023: Honorable mention USILA All-America
2023: Honorable mention USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America
2023: First-team All-Ivy
2022: Honorable mention USILA All-America
2022: Honorable mention Inside Lacrosse Media All-America
2022: Honorable mention All-Ivy
2022: Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament
2019: Honorable mention All-Ivy
2019: No. 9 On Inside Lacrosse Top-25 Freshmen List
2019: CollegeCrosse.com All-Freshman Team
2019: Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament Team
2023: Honorable mention USILA All-America for the second consecutive year … Honorable mention USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America … First-team All-Ivy … Played 13 games, starting one as the program’s starting LSM … Finished second on the team, tied for first among non-FOGOs for ground balls (33), adding eight caused turnovers … Notched a season-high four GBs three times, doing so at Harvard (4/15), Dartmouth (4/22) and in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal against Princeton (5/5).
2022: Honorable mention USILA All-America … Honorable mention Inside Lacrosse Media All-America … Honorable mention All-Ivy … Played in all 16 games at long-stick middie or on closed defense … Led Penn with 19 caused turnovers, second on the team with 55 ground balls … Scored a pair of goals as a long pole middie, against Duke (2/26) and vs. Brown (4/9), and had an assist against the Bears … Had five other assists, against Georgetown (2/19), Penn State (3/5), Villanova (3/13), Dartmouth (4/23) and UAlbany (4/30) … Also had six GB and a caused turnover against the Big Green … Went for five caused turnovers and seven ground balls in Penn’s ILT semifinal win over Brown (5/6), followed up with one CT and three GB in the final vs. Yale (5/8) to earn All-Tournament honors … Had six GB and a CT in Penn’s NCAA first-round win over Richmond (5/14), then two GB and one CT in the quarterfinal loss to Rutgers (5/21) … Had two caused turnovers and seven ground balls at Princeton (3/19), followed up with six GB and two CT a week later in a win over Cornell (3/26).
2021: Season was limited to one game due to Ivy League restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic … Did not see any action.
2020: Appeared in five games … All 2020 Ivy League spring sports were canceled on Wednesday, March 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 … Finished with 17 GB and 6 CT … Had five GB at Maryland (3/15) … Had four GB and three CT versus Penn State (3/29) … Had five GB and one CT against Villanova (3/6),
2019: Honorable mention All-Ivy … CollegeCrosse.com All-Freshman selection … Ranked No. 9 among freshmen in Division I lacrosse by inside Lacrosse … Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament Team selection … Appeared in all 16 games as a long stick midfielder … Finished with 37 ground balls, 18 caused turnovers, three goals and six assists … 37 ground balls led all non-FOGO players for the Quakers … 18 caused turnovers led the team … Picked up five ground balls and added an assist against No. 3 Maryland (2/16) … Had two caused turnovers and two ground balls at No. 5 Duke (2/23) … Scored at No. 11 Villanova (3/8) … Scored twice and added an assist while causing two turnovers and picking up two ground balls against Princeton (3/16) … Picked up two ground balls at No. 8 Cornell (3/23) … Had five ground balls against No. 2 Yale (3/30) … Picked up three ground balls against Dartmouth (4/20) … Caused two turnovers and picked up four ground balls against Vermont (4/27) … Caused two turnovers, picked up three ground balls and recorded an assist against Brown (5/3) in Ivy League Tournament semifinal … Had two caused turnovers, two ground balls and an assist against Yale (5/5) in Ivy League Tournament final … Picked up two ground balls and added an assist against Army West Point (5/11) in NCAA Championship first round … Had two ground balls and an assist against No. 5 Yale (5/19) in NCAA Championship quarterfinal.
High School: Four-time letter winner in lacrosse and football … Played in 2018 UnderArmour All-American Game … C. Markland Kelly Award recipient … Three-time All-MIAA selection … 2016 MIAA lacrosse championship team member, during an 18-1 season … In football, named captain as a senior … Two-time All-MIAA … 2015 MIAA football championship team member … Volunteered at Paul’s Place in Baltimore City … Harlem Lacrosse volunteer.
Personal: Son of Shannon Thomas ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences ... Athletic experience at Penn endowed by the Class of 2011 Men's Lacrosse Student-Athlete Experience Endowment.
