Notre Dame men's lacrosse dominates 2025 ACC regular season awards
Even when Notre Dame men’s lacrosse is down, the Fighting Irish are still up.
Head coach Kevin Corrigan‘s team has lost three games this season, two more than two seasons ago and one more than last year, but it only lost one conference game and earned this weekend’s No. 1 overall seed in the ACC Tournament. Subsequently, the Irish dominated the league’s regular season awards announcement.
ND has six honorees on the All-ACC team. The Irish also have the ACC offensive player of the year, co-defensive player of the year and freshman of the year. Here’s a look at all of the winners.
2025 ACC Men’s Lacrosse Season Awards
Offensive Player of the Year: Chris Kavanagh, Sr., A, Notre Dame
Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Aidan Maguire, Jr., SSDM, Duke; Shawn Lyght, So., D, Notre Dame
Goalie of the Year: Jimmy McCool, So., Syracuse
Freshman of the Year: Matt Jeffery, M, Notre Dame
Coach of the Year: Joe Breschi, North Carolina
2025 All-ACC Men’s Lacrosse Team
Patrick Jameison, So., G, Duke
Charlie Johnson, Jr., D, Duke
Benn Johnston, So., M, Duke
Aidan Maguire, Jr., SSDM, Duke
Andrew McAdorey, Sr., M, Duke
Owen Duffy, So., A, North Carolina
Dominic Pietramala, So., A, North Carolina
Brady Wambach, So., FO, North Carolina
Will Donovan, Jr., LSM, Notre Dame
Chris Kavanagh, Sr., A, Notre Dame
Shawn Lyght, So., D, Notre Dame
Ben Ramsey, Sr., SSDM, Notre Dame
Thomas Ricciardelli, Jr., G, Notre Dame
Jake Taylor, Gr., A, Notre Dame
Sam English, Gr., M, Syracuse
Owen Hiltz, R-Sr., A, Syracuse
Jimmy McCool, So., G, Syracuse
Joey Spallina, Jr., A, Syracuse
John Schroter, So., D, Virginia
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The Irish an 8-3 overall record and a 3-1 conference mark into Friday’s ACC Tournament semifinal matchup against No. 4 seed Syracuse (9-5, 2-2). The game gets going at 5 p.m ET. The Orange are the only ACC team to have beaten the Irish this season. They held serve at home and defeated ND, 14-9, on April 5.
If the Irish get revenge, they’ll play the winner of No. 2 seed North Carolina (10-3, 3-1) and No. 3 seed Duke (11-4, 2-2) on Sunday, May 4, at noon ET. All ACC Tournament games are played at American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The Irish are the defending tournament champions having won it all last year for the first time since 2018 and third time in program history.
