Naval Academy Athletics

• 2023 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll

2023-24 // Senior Year (Sprint Football)
• Stepped away from lacrosse in the fall to play on Navy’s sprint football team
• Garnered Second-Team All-Collegiate Sprint Football League honors as a wide receiver where he caught 19 passes for 289 yards (15.21 yds/catch, 41.29 yds/gm) and scored a team-high 6 touchdowns
• Eanred CSFL Rookie of the Week honors following a 5-reception, 63-yard, 2-touchdown performance in a win over Penn that helped the Mids clinch the CSFL South Division and advance to the CSFL Championship ... he had a long reception of 31 yards, while adding TD catches of 11 and 10 yards
• Navy finished the 2023 season 7-1 overall and 3-0 in the CSFL South Division
• The Midshipmen won their fifth-consecutive division title and third-straight CSFL Championship
• The win over Army in the CSFL Championship game gave Navy its 40th conference championship and 33nd outright title.
• Completed

2023 // Junior Year
• Made his lone appearance in the Mids’ win over Queens ... Navy’s defense is now 65-1 since 2003 (7-0 under Amplo) when holding an opponent to 5 or fewer goals after defeating Queens ... the Mids held the Royals scoreless for the first 34 minutes of the contest before allowing a goal

2022 // Sophomore Year
• Appeared in 3 contests, including each of the first 2
• Made the transition from short-stick defensive midfielder to long-stick midfielder early in the season

2021 // Freshman Year
• Appeared in 6 of Navy’s 9 contests
• Navy’s defensive unit closed out the year ranked #11 in the country and #3 in the Patriot League in scoring defense (10.00) and #23 nationally (#2 in the PL) in man-down defense (20 of 29, 69.0) ... the Mids were also #10 in the Patriot League and #2 in the PL in clearing percentage (88.5)
• The Mids held Lafayette without a goal for three incredible stretches ... after the Leopards took a 5-4 lead at 11:38 in the second quarter, Lafayette did not score for 13 minutes, allowing Navy to go on a 6-0 run and build a 10-5 lead at the half ... the Leopards scored the first 2 goals of the third quarter, but would find the back of the net just once over a 25-minute timeframe with a pair of 12-plus minute droughts (12:33 3Qtr - 1:39 4Qtr / 1 goal at 0:01 3Qtr)
• Part of a defensive effort that held #15 Loyola (4.17) scoreless for the first 11+ minutes of the game as Navy raced out to a 6-0 lead ... also held the Greyhounds to just one shot and without a goal over the last 4:59 of the game to secure the program’s first win at Loyola
• Grabbed the first ground ball of his career in Navy’s loss to Loyola (4.3)
• Navy’s defense held Jacksonville scoreless for nearly 25 minutes (24:19) as the Mids went on a 9-0 run in the second and third quarters
• After giving up 5 goals over the first 23:11, Navy’s defense held the Dolphins to a single goal over the final 36:49
• art of a defensive unit that held Mount St. Mary’s without a goal for the first 37-plus minutes of the game, while Navy jumped out to a 7-0 lead ... the Mids gave up just 3 even-strength goals in the 8-5 win

High School
• 2020 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Md.
• Two-sport athlete who earned letters in football (3) and lacrosse (3)
• Served as the lacrosse team captain his senior year
• Member of the Baltimore squad that won the 2019 Under Armour Underclass Tournament
• Led the lacrosse team to back-to-back MIAA titles in 2018 (16-3 record) and 2019 (17-1)
• Member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society
• Graduated from Calvert Hall with honors

Personal
• Son of Carl Sasaki and Naomi Tomei-Sasaki
• His service assignment is Marine Corps Ground
• Majoring in Quantitative Economics
• Has earned Commandant’s (S2022, S2023) List accolades multiple times