Naval Academy Athletics

•    High School / Personal: A 2024 graduate of De Smet Jesuit High School in Creve Coeur, Mo., McLaughlin was a two-sport athlete, earning letters in football (3) and lacrosse (3) ... garnered First-Team All-Metro, First-Team All-Class 6, District 3 and First-Team All-Metro Catholic Conference honors as a senior ... led De Smet to the Missouri Scholastic Lacrosse Association Class 2 State Cup title in lacrosse his junior year ... broke his femur so severely in 2014, doctors told him he would never play football again ... member of the National Honor Society ... father, Drew, is a 2002 graduate of Tulsa where he was three-year starting defensive end on the football team, who garnered All-Western Athletic Conference honors his senior year and was an Academic All-American ... mother, Liz, is a graduate of Tulsa where she was a three-year standout on the soccer team ... grandfather, Stan McLaughlin, is a 1974 graduate of Tulsa where he was a three-year letter winner on the basketball team ... uncle, John Benoist, is a 2001 graduate of Michigan State where he was a two-time (1999, 2000) All-Big Ten defender on the soccer team ... son of Drew and Liz McLaughlin.