Naval Academy Athletics

• 2020 CoSIDA Third-Team Academic All-American
• 2019, ‘20 CoSIDA Academic All-District
• 2019 Patriot League Men’s Lacrosse
All-Academic Team
• 2018, ‘19, ‘20 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
• 2018 ECAC President’s Academic Honor Roll

• A starter in 30 of the 31 games he has played in (12 of 13 Fr // 13 So // 5 Jr)
• Has scored a point (G or A) in 29 contests (Loyola, Syracuse 2019) and a goal in 27 games
• Enters his senior season just 9 points shy of becoming the 36th player in program history to reach 100 career points.
• Also chasing T.J. Hanzsche (2013-16) and Bob Pell (1970-72) for 20th (75 goals) on Navy’s career goals leader board
• Owns and active point-scoring streak (6 gms) that dates back to the 2019 finale against Boston U.

2020 // Junior Year
• Navy’s leading scorer with 17 points on 8 goals and a team-best 9 assists
• Led the Mids with a 3-point (1G, 2A) night at Richmond
• One of 18 players to post a point and one of 14 to score a goal, led the Mids with 4 points on 2 goals and 2 assists against Furman ... also grabbed a team-best 7 ground balls.
• Paced the team with his 4 points on a pair of goals and assists in the opener against Manhattan

2019 // Sophomore Year
• A starter in all 13 contests at attack, he closed out the year as Navy’s second-leading scorer with 43 points on a team-best 31 goals and 12 assists
• Scored 4 of the Mids’ 9 extra-man goals
• His 31 goals are tied as the 20th most in a single season in program history
• His 105 shots tied as the 12th most in Navy history
• One of two Navy players (Nick Franchuk) named to the 14-player Patriot League Men’s Lacrosse All-Academic Team
• Named to the USILA Team of the Week and Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week after producing a career-high 8 points on 5 goals and 3 assists in the win over #16 Boston U. ... played a role in 6 of Navy’s 7 goals in its second-half comeback ... it was Navy’s first 8-point performance since Dave Little scored 9 points on a 9 for 9 performance (9G on 9Sh) against Lehigh in 2017
• Held scoreless for just the second time in his career in the Mids’ loss to #9 Syracuse
• Paced Navy with 4 goals against Army, including the game-tying goal that sent the game into extra minutes
• Had his 17-game goal-scoring streak and 19-game point scoring streak snapped by #9 Loyola ... posted his fourth hat trick of the season with a team-high tying 3 goals against Lafayette
• Paced Navy in the league opener against Bucknell with a then career-best 7-point performance with 4 goals and a career-high 3 assists ... also picked up a career-high 9 ground balls
• Produced a then career-high 6 points on a career-high tying 5 goals and an assist against UMBC ... scored the first 2 goals of the game and scored 3 of Navy’s 4 goals in the second half

2018 // Freshman Year
• A starter in 12 of the 13 games he played as a rookie, he scored a goal or dealt out an assist in all 13 contests
• For the first time since 2005 (Jon Birsner 42 pts, Ben Horn 37, Graham Gill 35, Nick Mirabito 33), Navy had four players produce 30-plus points in a single season (Jack Ray 33, Greyson Torain 33, Ryan Wade 33, Christian Daniel 31)
• Finished his rookie campaign as the team’s fourth-leading scorer with 31 points on 21 goals and 10 assists
• Closed out regular-season Patriot League play second in the scoring column with 22 points on 16 goals and 6 assists
• With his extra-man goal against Syracuse he became just the 13th freshman in school history to score 30 points
• With 21 goals, he is one of just 13 freshmen in program history to score 20 or more goals
• He finished tied for 10th on Navy’s freshman assists list
• Scored 5 of Navy’s 7 extra-man goals ... the 36th most in the country
• Returned to the starting lineup against Lehigh in the Patriot League Tournament ... his goal with 4:39 left leveled the score at nine apiece and sent the game into overtime
• Saw limited action, primarily extra-man, against Syracuse as he scored off an assist from Ryan Wade with under three minutes to go
• Sat out the Army game with an injury
• Paced the Mids against #14 Lehigh with a then career-high tying 5 points on 2 goals and a career-best 3 assists
• Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week following his then career-high 5-goal performance in the win over Lafayette ... scored his 5 goals on 7 shots ... it’s the most goals by a Navy freshman since Jay Ray punched in 5 against Air Force in the 2015 season finale
• Pitched his first collegiate hat trick with 3 goals against #20 Bucknell ... added 2 assists for a then career-best 5-point performance
• Scored a goal and added a pair of assists against Jacksonville (in his collegiate debut ... made the start at attack ... responsible for scoring the Mids’ first goal of the year off an assist from Jack Ray

High School
• 2016 graduate of Northern High School in Owings, Md.
• Attended the Naval Academy Prep School during the 2016-17 academic year
• Three-sport athlete who earned letters in lacrosse (4), soccer (2) and swimming (3)
• Three-time high school All-American (2014-15-16)
• Earned all-conference and all-country recognition four years (2013-14-15-16)
• Led the lacrosse team to four consecutive SMAC titles (2013-14-15-16) and claimed the region crown with a 13-3 record in 2016
• Served as captain of the lacrosse team his final three years
• Member of the National Honor Society
• As a high schooler, he had shoulder-length hair ... he and his mother, Stacey, cut their locks and donated their hair to Wigs for Kids

Personal
• Son of Wayne and Stacey Daniel
• His service assignment is Naval Officer
• Majoring in Astrophysics, he owns a 3.82 grade-point average
• Has earned Superintendent’s (F2017, S2018, F2018, S2019, F2019) and Commandant’s (F2017, S2018, F2018, S2019, F2019, S2020, F2020) List accolades multiple times
• Stands #57 in Overall Order of Merit among the Class of 2021 (1,116 students) ... ranked #164 in Academic Order of Merit and #1 in Military Order of Merit
• Validated out of 8 classes - General Physics I and II, Calculus I, Foundations of Chemistry I, Basic Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II - though he chose to take his physics courses to stay in line with his major