PRINCETON, N.J. — With the Ivy League Men’s Soccer Tournament on the horizon, the Ivy League has announced the 2025 All-Ivy Teams and Major Award winners.
 
Daniel Ittycheria of Princeton captured his first Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year award. Ittycheria was the leading goal and point scorer for a Princeton offense that ranked third among Ivy League schools in total points (79) and goals (28). Individually, the senior from Warren, N.J. was second in the conference with eight goals and 18 points in just 13 games played.
 
Princeton’s Andrew Samuels was also a first-time major award winner after being named Defensive Player of the Year for the League. The junior goalkeeper started all 16 games for the Tigers and posted a 13-1-2 overall record. The Burlingame, Calif. native leads all NCAA Division I players with a .251 goals against average and .927 save percentage, collecting 51 total saves and 11 shutouts between the posts.
 
The Rookie of the Year is Harvard’s Adam Poliakov. Hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, Poliakov tallied five goals and one assist in just nine games for the Crimson, ranking second on the team in points and goals scored. The first-year player had two game-winning goals and played 384 minutes.
 
The Princeton coaching staff, led by head coach Jim Barlow, was a unanimous selection as the Coaching Staff of the year after guiding the Tigers to a national ranking as high as No. 3 in the United Soccer Coaches Poll and the program’s 11th regular season Ivy title, its first title since the 2021 season.
 
The All-Ivy First Team consists of players from five of the eight Ivy League schools with Princeton leading the way with six First Team members. Cornell saw three players placed on the team and Penn had two players honored. Brown and Harvard each had one representative. Joining Ittycheria and Samuels on the team as unanimous selections were teammates Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch. Bardia Hormozi, Jack Jasinski, and Sam Vigilante. Cornell’s trio of Andrew Johnson, Connor Miller and Westin Carnevale made the squad with Johnson and Miller being unanimous selections as well.
 
Penn’s Patrick Cayelli was the final player unanimously chosen to the First Team and he was joined by teammate Connor Dawson. James Snaith of Brown and Harvard’s Phoenix Wooten were the final members of the First Team.
 
The All-Ivy Second Team featured a balanced representation of Ivy League schools, with at least one member of all eight programs earning a place on the team. Cornell led the way with three Second Team members, followed by Brown, Harvard, Penn, and Princeton with two honorees each.
 
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 2025 Ivy League Men’s Soccer Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Mathias Hille, Columbia’s Joe McDaid, Cornell's Sam Latona, Dartmouth’s Matt McPherson, Harvard’s Ethan Veghte, Princeton’s Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch and Yale’s Conrad Lee were each named to the team.

The Ivy League Men’s Soccer Tournament gets underway Thursday, November 13^th with a pair of semifinal games at 3:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ET. The winners will advance to the championship game which will be played on Sunday, November 16^th with the winner of that earning the Ivy League’s automatic qualifier into the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
 
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Daniel Ittycheria, Princeton
 
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Andrew Samuels, Princeton
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Adam Poliakov, Harvard
 
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Princeton*
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Andrew Johnson, Cornell*
Connor Miller, Cornell*
Westin Carnevale, Cornell
Patrick Cayelli, Penn*
Connor Dawson, Penn
Daniel Ittycheria, Princeton*
Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch, Princeton*
Andrew Samuels, Princeton*
Bardia Hormozi, Princeton
Jack Jasinski, Princeton
Sam Vigilante, Princeton
James Snaith, Brown
Phoenix Wooten, Harvard
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Lorenzo Amaral, Brown
Mathias Hille, Brown
Jack McDaid, Columbia
Aidan Martin, Cornell
Sergio Zapata, Cornell
Ryan Friedberg, Cornell
Olly Spicer, Dartmouth
Alex Castel, Harvard
Adam Poliakov, Harvard
Romeo Dahlen, Penn
Oliver Pratt, Penn
Liam Beckwith, Princeton
Roka Tsunehara, Princeton
Sven Meacham, Yale
 
HONORABLE MENTION
Joe McDaid, Columbia
Amir Yahalom, Columbia
Dominik Kolbl, Cornell
James Wilson, Dartmouth
Andreas Savva, Harvard
Phillip Falcon III, Penn
Jack Ryan Jeremiah, Penn
Jack Hunt, Princeton
Dash Papez, Princeton
Angelo Zhu, Yale
 
*unanimous selection
^ team expanded due to ties in voting