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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Following an ultra-competitive regular season, requiring tiebreakers to settle the four-team field for this week’s Ivy League Tournament, the Ivy League has announced the 2022 major award winners and All-Ivy teams. 
 
Earning Ivy League Player of the Year was Penn’s Sam Handley. Handley was Penn’s top offensive threat, besting his previous career-high of 53 points with 54 this season, a total that ranked him tied for second in the Ivy League in total points and his per game average also ranked second. Handley also finished second in assists per game with 2.69. The Portland, Ore. native already has the third-best single season scoring output in Penn history and has a chance to catch the Quaker scoring record of 75 which has stood since 1977.
 
CJ Kirst earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors by asserting himself as not only one of the best goal scorers in the Ivy League, but also the country. Kirst ranked fourth in the conference with 42 goals, sixth with 21 assists, and finished tied for fifth with 63 points. He formed a potent scoring duo with John Piatelli and helped lead the Big Red to a No. 2 seed in this week’s Ivy League Tournament. 
 
In his first season as head coach on the Cornell bench, Connor Buczek led his alma mater to an 11-3 record, an end-of-regular-season national ranking at No. 8, and the No. 2 seed in this weekend’s Ivy League Tournament. A former Ivy League Player of the Year, Buczek was voted the 2022 Ivy League Coach of the Year, becoming the fourth different coach to win the award since it began in 2015. 
 
All seven Ivy League schools are represented on the All-Ivy First Team with Yale leading the way with three. Matt Brandau and Chris Fake were unanimous selections at attack and defense, respectively, and were joined by midfielder Brian Tevlin. 
 
Handley was a unanimous selection at midfield and was one of two Penn players to make their way onto the All-Ivy First Team, the other being short-stick midfielder Piper Bond. Penn wasn’t the only school with two players on the All-Ivy First Team as Princeton, Cornell, and Brown each had two as well. 
 
Seniors Chris Brown and George Baughan were Princeton’s representatives on the All-Ivy First Team. Brown finished third in the league in points per game and Baughan was second in caused turnovers per game. The Tigers finished 9-4 overall this season and rank second in the latest NCAA RPI rankings thanks, in part, to the play of Brown and Baughan this season.  
 
Cornell had a pair of players on the All-Ivy First Team in unanimous selection at defense, Gavin Adler, and attack John Piatelli. Adler led the Ivy League in caused turnovers per game and Piatelli was second in goals per game. Piatelli was the only Ivy League player, and one of three players across the NCAA, to record 50 goals entering this weekend’s conference tournament. 
 
This year’s top seed in the tournament, Brown, also had a unanimous selection in Ryan Aughavin and had a second representative in goaltender Connor Theriault. Aughavin did a bit of everything from the midfielder position for Brown, finishing second on the team in scoring, while Theriault was at, or near, the top of all goaltending stats in the Ivy League this year. He led the league in total saves, was second in saves per game, first in goals against average, and first in save percentage. 
 
Harvard long-stick midfielder Greg Campisi and Dartmouth faceoff specialist Mitch Meyers rounded-out the members of the All-Ivy First Team.
 
Second Team All-Ivy was comprised of six of the seven teams and was expanded after there were ties at several positions. Princeton had four additional players earn recognition while Penn and Yale had three Second Team All-Ivy members each. Brown had a pair of players on the Second Team and Cornell and Dartmouth had one each for the 14-person All-Ivy Second Team. 
 
Speaking to the success on the field and in the classroom of this year’s group, the 2022 Academic All-Ivy team consisted of three First Team All-Ivy honorees (Piatelli, Handley, Fake). Brown’s Luke Gaydos, Dartmouth’s Daniel Hincks, Harvard’s Chase Yager and Princeton’s George Baughan rounded out the accomplished group. 
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Sam Handley, Penn (Sr., M – Portland, Ore.)
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
CJ Kirst, Cornell (So., A – Bernardsville, N.J.)
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Connor Buczek, Cornell 
 
First Team All-Ivy
*Matt Brandau, Yale (Jr., A - Timonium, Md.)
Chris Brown, Princeton (Sr., A – Fairfield, Conn.) 
John Piatelli, Cornell (Fifth Year, A – Wrentham, Mass.)
*Ryan Aughavin, Brown (Sr., M – Glen Head, N.Y.)
*Sam Handley, Penn (Sr., M – Portland, Ore.)
Brian Tevlin, Yale (Sr., M - Livingston, N.J.)
*Gavin Adler, Cornell (Sr., D – Hewlett, N.Y.)
*Chris Fake, Yale (Sr., D – Allentown, N.J.)
George Baughan, Princeton (Sr., D – Wyndmoor, Pa.)
Greg Campisi, Harvard (So., LSM – Farmingdale, N.Y.)
Piper Bond, Penn (Sr., SSM – Baltimore, Md.)
Mitch Meyers, Dartmouth (Jr., FO – Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Connor Theriault, Brown (So., G – Mount Hermon, Mass.)
 
Second Team All-Ivy ^
CJ Kirst, Cornell (So., A – Bernardsville, N.J.)
Dylan Gergar, Penn (Sr., A – Annapolis, Md.)
Devon McLane, Brown (Jr., A – Westfield, N.J.)
Sammy English, Princeton (Jr., M – Burlington, Ont.)
Jake Stevens, Princeton (Jr., M – Puslinch, Ont.) 
James Shipley, Penn (Jr., M – Weddington, N.C.)
Brad Sharp, Yale (Fr., M – Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.)
Luke Gaydos, Brown (Sr., D – Ridefield, Conn.)
Brendan Lavelle, Penn (So., D – Rye, N.Y.)
Mike Alexander, Yale (So., D – West Islip, N.Y.)
Andrew Song, Princeton (Sr., LSM – Canton, Mass.)
Beau Pederson, Princeton (Jr., SSM – Park City, Utah)
Nick Ramsey, Yale (So., FO – Morristown, N.J.)
Danny Hincks, Dartmouth (Sr., G – Newtonville, Mass.)
 
Honorable Mention
Sam King, Harvard (Fr., A – Baltimore, Md.)
Alex Slusher, Princeton (Jr., A – Portland, Ore.) 
Alex Vardaro, Princeton (Jr., M – Woodmere, N.Y.)
Miles Botkiss, Harvard (Fr., M – Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.)
Andrew Johnston, Dartmouth (Jr., D – Potomac, Md.)
Peter Blake, Penn (Jr., D – Needham, Mass.)
Silas Newsome, Brown (Sr., D – Arlington, Va.)
Andrew Geppert, Brown (Sr., D – Dover, N.H.)
BJ Farrare, Penn (Sr., LSM – Owings Mills, Md.)
Harrison Bardwell, Cornell (GS, SSM – Wilton, Conn.)
Chase Yager, Harvard (Jr., SSM – Virginia Beach, Va.) 
Trevor Yeboah-Kodie, Brown (Jr., SSM – Garden City, N.Y.)
Matt Gunty, Brown (Jr., FO – Bethesda, Md.) 
Angelo Petrakis, Cornell (Jr., FO – Massapequa Park, N.Y.)
Jamie Zusi, Penn (Sr., FO – Chester, N.J.)
Patrick Burkinshaw, Penn (Sr., G – Madison, Conn.)
Kyle Mullin, Harvard (Sr., G – Westchester, Pa.) 
 
Academic All-Ivy
Luke Gaydos, Brown - (Sr., D - Ridgefield, Conn.)
John Piatelli, Cornell (Fifth Year, A – Wrentham, Mass.)
Daniel Hincks, Dartmouth (Sr., G - Newtonville, Mass.)
Chase Yager, Harvard (Jr., SSM – Virginia Beach, Va.) 
Sam Handley, Penn (Sr., M – Portland, Ore.)
George Baughan, Princeton (Sr., D – Wyndmoor, Pa.)
*Chris Fake, Yale (Sr., D – Allentown, N.J.)
 
* unanimous selection
^ expanded team due to tie in voting