Biography
CAREER STATISTICS
2017: 5 played/5 started, 0 points, 1 shot, 10 GB, 6 CT
2018: 15 played/6 started, 0 points, 0 shots, 20 GB, 16 CT
2019: 16 played/16 started, 0 points, 2 shots, 24 GB, 12 CT
2020: 5 played/ 5 started, 1 goal, 1 point, 3 shots, 5 GB, 3 CT
CAREER: 41 played/32 started, 1 goal, 1 point, 6 shots, 59 GB, 37 CT
CAREER HONORS
2019: Honorable Mention All-Ivy
2020: Started five games … All 2020 Ivy League spring sports were canceled on Wednesday, March, 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 … Scored his first career goal against Penn State (2/29) … Had 2 GB and one CT against Duke (2/22).
2019: Honorable mention All-Ivy … Started all 16 games on defense … Finished with 24 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers … Had two ground balls and a caused turnover at No. 5 Penn State (3/2) … Had two ground balls and a caused turnover at No. 11 Villanova (3/8) … Caused two turnovers at No. 8 Cornell (3/23) … Caused two turnovers and picked up four ground balls against No. 2 Yale (3/30) … Caused a turnover and picked up three ground balls against Dartmouth (4/20) … Caused two turnovers and picked up four ground balls against Brown (5/3) in Ivy League Tournament semifinal … Had two ground balls against Yale (5/5) in Ivy League Tournament final … Recorded two ground balls against Army West Point (5/11) in NCAA Championship first round.
2018: Played in all 15 games on defense, starting six (including five of the last six) ... Led the team with 16 caused turnovers ... Sixth on the team with 20 ground balls ... Had three CT and two GB in Ivy win at Princeton (3/17) ... Two caused turnovers and two ground balls against Ivy foe Brown (4/7) ... Recorded two CT and a GB in Penn's 10-9 win over No. 1 Duke, the program's first-ever win over a team ranked at the top of the USILA poll (2/24) ... Also had two caused turnovers in an Ivy win at Dartmouth (4/21) ... Had three ground balls and a caused turnover in a win vs. Navy (3/6) ... Had two GB in three of Penn's first four games, against Michigan (2/17), Maryland (2/21) and Penn State (3/3).
2017: Appeared in five games during his freshman season and started all five of those contests on defense… Recorded 10 ground balls and caused six turnovers… Notched two ground balls in his first collegiate start vs. Brown (4/8)… Picked up two ground balls and caused three turnovers vs. Dartmouth (4/22)… Collected a season-high four ground balls vs. Virginia (4/29) in the ACC Showcase game… Tallied two ground balls and caused two turnovers in the Ivy League Tournament vs. Yale (5/5).
High School: Lettered as both a JV and varsity member of the lacrosse team under head coach Jack Moran… Won a 2015 league championship with a 13-4 record… Was a 2016 All-Long Island and all-league selection… Member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Son of Kathleen and Timothy Thornton… Brother, Shane, played lacrosse at Yale and another brother, Tim, played lacrosse at Amherst… Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
