Pat Kavanagh wins the Tewaaraton Award! What a week for our Irish superstar, another National Championship and receiving the highest accolade a college lacrosse player can receive!
PKav is the first member of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s lacrosse team to win the Tewaaraton, often referred to as lacrosse’s Heisman Trophy. Pat was selected over Duke’s Brennan O’Neil, Virginia’s Connor Shellenberger, Yale’s Matt Brandau, and Notre Dame’s own goalie superstar, Liam Entenmann. Pat’s 2024 campaign saw him score 31 goals and 49 assists, with a 36% shooting percentage and gobbling up 35 ground balls with 14 caused turnovers. Most importantly, he was the heart and soul of this championship team.
The award recognizes one of the greatest seasons and careers of any college player. Pat Kavanaugh finishes his Notre Dame career at the top of the University’s scoring record books, and he will always be remembered for bringing home two national championships!Β Congratulations, Pat!
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The greatest attackman in program history becomes the 1st ND player to win the award and just the 3rd @Tewaaraton winner with 2 national titles!#GoIrishβοΈ pic.twitter.com/FDbpRVwRHC
β Notre Dame Lacrosse (@NDlacrosse) May 30, 2024
Nortwestern’s Izzy Scane was the women’s award recipient. Notre Dame’s Jackie Wolak was a finalist.
The Tewaaraton Foundation’s mission includes recognizing excellence in the sport of lacrosse by annually honoring the most outstanding menβs and womenβs college players and legends of the game, as well as honoring the historical and contemporary contributions the Haudenosaunee, which refers to the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples, have made, and continue to make, to the game of lacrosse.
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Well deserved and an awesome end to the season.
At the beginning of the tourney I was pretty sure it was going to go to Shellenberger, so thanks for Maryland for knocking them out in the semis so people could publicly talk about changing their minds around the finals.
Also just want to throw out that for next year’s defense the team will have 16 home grown top 50 recruits (7 five stars) on the team (not counting grad students or transfers). I’m not checking all the other usual suspects, but that’s right around the top, certainly a number that should let them be in the thick of it the whole year. The CKav, Lynch, Ramsey show, all rising seniors.