2018 Men's Lacrosse

Ben Reeves

2 Ben Reeves

  • Height
    6-2
  • Weight
    205
  • Class
    Senior
  • Hometown
    Macedon, NY
  • Highschool
    Palmyra Macedon

Biography

Notes: Yale''s career goals (174), assists (142), and points leader (316, 9th best in NCAA)... Three-time 1st Team All-Ivy...Three-time All-American... Two-time Ivy League Player of the Year.

2018: Team Captain... USILA Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award for the most outstanding player... Tewaaraton Award Winner... First Team USILA All-America... Ivy League Player of the Year... ECAC Offensive Player of the Year... NEILA Player of the Year... First Team NEILA All New England Team... First-Team All-Ivy League... All-Ivy Tournament Team... Ivy League Player of the Week (2x)... USLIA Player of the Year Watch List... IL All-American... All-ECAC First Team... NEILA All-Academic Team... NCAA Weekend All-Tournament Team... Yale University''s Mallory Award (top male athlete)... Capital One Player of the Game from ESPN on May 19...Scored 5 goals in Ivy Tourney Championship Game and broke school record for career goals... Set school record for most points by a senior (115)... MLL Draft pick of Dallas... Notched 6 points in win over UMass in NCAA Tourney first-round game... Finished season with most points (115) in Yale history... finished season with second most goals scored (62) and assists (53) in Yale history... USILA Scholar All-American... 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America Team.  

2017: Second consecutive year as Tewaaraton Award Finalist... USILA/Nike First-Team All-America... IL All-America (2nd team)... Ivy League Player of the Year... Ivy League Tournament MVP... First-Team All-Ivy and ECAC... NEILA Player of Year... CoSIDA Academic All-America (3rd team)... CoSIDA All-District First-Team with 3.88 GPA... Broke school career points record with final two of four-goal (6-point) night against Syracuse in NCAA Tournament... Career-high 5 goals and 10 points in win at home over Brown that earned him Ivy Player of the Week... Played briefly in season opener but missed most of that game and game no. 2 with injury before coming back... Featured on the cover of Inside Lacrosse Magazine before season began.

2016: Yale''s first finalist for Tewaaraton Award... First-Team All-America... First-Team All-Ivy League... First-Team All-New England and All-ECAC... Ivy League Tournament MVP... Named pre-season All-American and pre-season all-conference by Inside Lacrosse... Career-best 4-5-9 vs. Harvard in Ivy Tournament Championship win... StringKing National Player of Week after 4-3-7 game vs. Cornell... Set Yale sophomore record for points in a season... Inside Lacrosse Midseason First-Team All-America... 8th in Division I with 2.81 GPG... 3rd in country with 4.94 PPG

2015: Second-team All-New England... All-Ivy Tournament team... 2015 Ivy League Rookie of the Year... Was the first Bulldog to be named Rookie of the Year since 1996... Set program record for freshmen scoring with 43 points, 25 goals and 18 assists... Named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week multiple times... Placed second on the team in both scoring and assists... Was third on the Bulldogs with 25 goals... Started all 16 games on attack.

Before Yale: Five-year varsity lacrosse player at Palmyra Macedon High School… 278 career goals with 307 assists… His 585 career points are second in New York High School history… Played both attack and middie… Two-time US Lacrosse All-American… Three-time Finger Lakes Player of Year (attack)… Four-time first-team all-league pick… Three-time first-team all-section and D&C All-Greater Rochester Super 16… Rochester US Lacrosse Senior All-Star Game… Brogden Cup Winner Under Armour Upstate NY Underclass Team… Brine National High School All-American… Nike Upstate Rising Sophomore, Junior and Senior Team.

Personal: Benjamin Cameron Reeves is the son of Karen and Bob Reeves… His three older brothers were all college soccer players… Fall 2015 worked in a Yale cancer research lab focusing on cancers found in the blood (leukemia)... Summer 2016 working at the University of Rochester doing research on tumors of the neural crest at while shadowing a pediatric oncologist at Strong Memorial Hospital.

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Historical Player Information

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    2015First Year

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    6'2" 180 lbs
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    2016Sophomore

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    6'2" 205 lbs
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    2017Junior

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    6'2" 205 lbs
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    2018Senior

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    6'2" 205 lbs
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