PRINCETON, N.J. — Before the inaugural Ivy League Men’s Soccer Tournament kicks off this weekend, the Ivy League has announced the 2023 All-Ivy Teams and major award winners.
Harvard’s
Alessandro Arlotti was voted the 2023 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year after finishing an Ivy League regular season in which he led the league with five goals and 13 points. He ranked second in assists with three. Arlotti had a hand in eight of Harvard’s Ivy League-leading 12 goals during the regular season as he was the catalyst of the Crimson attack.
Anchoring a Yale defense that posted three shutouts and tied for the third fewest goals-against in the league, junior
TJ Presthus was named the 2023 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. Presthus leaned into his reputation as one of the best defenders in the country, facilitating the Bulldog defense for every possible minute and adding one assist in league play.
Alex Harris of Cornell was the unanimous selection for the 2023 Ivy League Rookie of the Year. The prolific scorer found the back of the net in eight of Cornell’s 15 overall games and three of the seven Ivy League games. He was the league’s top rookie scorer with four goals and two assists for 10 points, trailing just Arlotti in both goals and points. Harris did tie for the Ivy League lead with two game-winning goals and led the league with 13 shots on goal.
The last of the major awards, the 2023 Ivy League Coach of the Year, goes to Penn’s
Brian Gill. Gill led his Quakers to their second-consecutive outright Ivy League regular season championship in 2023, with Penn going 4-1-2 in league play. The Quakers started out 0-1-1 in Ivy League play, but won four of their next five games, including 3 in a row to end the season, to secure the regular season title and the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Ivy League Tournament. This is Gill’s second-straight Coach of the Year award.
Arlotti, Harvard’s lone representative, was a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy First Team as was Penn’s
Leo Burney. Burney was one of three Penn players on First Team All-Ivy, the others being
Nick Christoffersen and
Michael Hewes. Cornell also had three members on the All-Ivy First Team, Harris,
Connor Drought, and
Connor Miller. Yale had two honorees, Presthus and
Max Rogers, and Brown and Princeton each had one selection in
Kojo Dadzie and
Daniel Ittycheria, respectively.
Additionally, one Ivy League men’s soccer student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the pitch as members of the 2023 Ivy League Men’s Soccer Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s
Harri Sprofera, Columbia's
David Walley,
Cornell's
Mateo Rodriguez, Dartmouth’s
Andrew Ellis, Harvard’s
Nik White, Penn's
Nick Christoffersen, Princeton’s
Walker Gillespie and Yale’s
Eric Lagos were each named to the team.
The inaugural Ivy League Men’s Soccer Tournament, played at Penn’s Dunning-Cohen Champions Field, will begin on Friday, November 10
th with both semifinal games. The first semifinal, set to kick-off at 3:00 p.m. ET, features No. 2 Harvard and No. 3 Yale, while the evening game pits No. 1 Penn against No. 4 Brown at 6:30 p.m. ET.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Alessandro Arlotti, Harvard
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
TJ Presthus, Yale
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
*Alex Harris, Cornell
COACH OF THE YEAR
Brian Gill, Penn
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
*Alessandro Arlotti, Harvard
*Leo Burney, Penn
TJ Presthus, Yale
Connor Drought, Cornell
Nick Christoffersen, Penn
Connor Miller, Cornell
Michael Hewes, Penn
Max Rogers, Yale
Alex Harris, Cornell
Kojo Dadzie, Brown
Daniel Ittycheria, Princeton
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Hudson Blatteis, Brown
Michael Collodi, Columbia
Chris Edwards, Yale
Jan Riecke, Harvard
Wilson Eisner, Cornell
Nik White, Harvard
Jack Jasinski, Princeton
Jack Cloherty, Brown
Trenton Blake, Dartmouth
Nico Nee, Princeton
Stas Korzeniowski, Penn
Eric Lagos, Yale
Vasilis Moiras, Dartmouth
HONORABLE MENTION
Lorenzo Amaral, Brown
Harri Sprofera, Brown
Taha Kina, Brown
Joao Lima, Columbia
Kisa Kiingi, Cornell
Tom Collins, Dartmouth
Kristian Feed, Dartmouth
Sebastian Manon, Dartmouth
Erik Dalaker, Harvard
Ethan Veghte, Harvard
Ben Do, Penn
Jake Schaffer, Yale
* unanimous selection
^ team expanded due to ties in voting