Naval Academy Athletics

• 2025 Second-Team All-Patriot League

2025 // Freshman Year
• Garnered Second-Team All-Patriot League honors ... he is just the 6th Navy freshman to earn All-Patriot League recognition and only the 2nd Navy freshman offensive player to be selected all-league (2007, Basil Daratsos, M / 2014, Brady Dove, FO / 2021, Jackson Bonitz, D / 2024, Zach Hayashi, FO / 2024, AJ Marsh, LSM)
• Ranked 15th among Inside Lacrosse’s Early Season Top-30 Impact Freshmen and moved up to 12th among the Late Season Top-30 ... closed out the year ranked 13thin the Final Impact Rankings
• A starter in 13 of the 15 games in which he played, he closed out the year as the team’s 2nd-leading scorer with 31 points on 18 goals and 13 assists
• With a 4-point performance against Bucknell, he became only the 17th freshman in program history to reach 30 points ... teammate William Goers scored his 30th point against Army (4.12) ... Goers and Ponzio are just the 3rd tandem in program history to reach the 30-point mark as freshmen, joining Paul Basile and Tom Hanzsche in 1986 and Tucker Hull and Sam Jones in 2011 ... current teammates Henry Tolker (2022 / 23-11=34) and Mac Haley (2023 / 16-14=30) also reached 30 points in their respective freshman year
• Held without a point for just the 2nd time in his career, but caused 2 turnovers and grabbed 2 ground balls against Loyola
• Scored a goal and dealt out a career-high 3 assists in Navy’s win at Bucknell
• Produced 2 goals and an assist in Navy’s overtime loss to #5 Army
• Dealt out a pair of assists in the win over Lafayette
• After his 8-game point-scoring streak was snapped by Holy Cross, he bounced back to score a pair of goals on the road against Colgate (3.29)
• Scored 2 goals in Navy’s 8-5 victory over Le Moyne
• Turned in a pair of goals and an assist in Navy’s contest against #11 Johns Hopkins
• Paced Navy with 5 goals and an assist in its game against Lehigh ... the 5 goals are the most by a Navy player since Dane Swanson scored 5 in last year’s win at Boston U. ... the 5 goals are the most by a Navy freshman since Jack Ray scored 5 at Air Force on May 2, 2015
• It marked the 3rd time in a 4-game span that a Navy player finished with 6 points - William Goers (4G-2A) vs. Towson and Jack Flaherty (3G-3A) vs. Penn State
• Dealt out a pair of assists in Navy’s Patriot League opener against #20 Boston U. and caused a turnover
• Dealt out an assist in Navy’s 22-9 victory over Iona
• Garnered Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors after scoring 2 goals and adding 2 assists in the Mids’ opener against High Point ... his 2 goals were scored on 2 shots ... played a role in each of Navy’s first 3 goals, including scoring Navy’s 1st goal of the season

High School 
• 2023 graduate of St. Anthony’s High School in Melville, N.Y.
• Three-year lacrosse letter winner
• Two-time (2022, ‘23) All-League selection
• Served as team captain his senior year
• Led St. Anthony’s to back-to-back-to-back (2021, ‘22, ‘23) league and state titles 
• 2020 Under Armour All-America All-Tournament Team
• 2019 Under Armour All-America participant

Personal
• Son of Michael and Christine Ponzio
• Majoring in Quantitative Economics
• Attended the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, R.I. during the 2023-24 academic year
• Also considered Syracuse