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Career Honors:
2023 CSC Academic All-American (Second Team)
2023 CSC Academic All-District
2022 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Outstanding)
2021 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Outstanding)
2020 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Outstanding)
2019 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Outstanding)
 
2022 (Senior): Named Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC – formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-American (Second Team) and Academic All-District … Named to the 2022 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in 30 of the Midshipmen’s 31 games during the season … Finished with 15 points on eight goals and seven assists … Registered a season-best two points on a goal and an assist against Cal Lutheran (Navy Open) and Mount St. Mary’s … Also found the back of the net against Biola (Navy Open), St. Francis Brooklyn (Princeton Invitational), #3 USC (Aggie Roundup), #10 San Jose State (Aggie Roundup), McKendree, and Mercyhurst (Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference Tournament) … Additionally, credited with assists versus Occidental (Aggie Roundup), #19 George Washington, Wagner, Bucknell, and Johns Hopkins … Defensively, finished with 13 steals and 10 kickouts drawn.
 
2021 (Junior): Named to the 2021 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in 28 of Navy’s 29 games on the season … Finished the year with 12 total points on five goals and seven assists, while adding five steals and nine kickouts drawn … Scored a season-best four points on a season-high two goals and two assists against Mount St. Mary’s … Added two points on a goal and an assist versus Iona at the Princeton Invitational … Also netted goals against Brown (Princeton Invitational) and Biola (Gary Troyer Tournament) … Contributed assists in games against Salem (Navy Open), #14 Santa Clara (Gary Troyer Tournament), #9 San Jose State (at UCLA), and Mount St. Mary’s.
 
2020 (Sophomore): Named to the 2020-21 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in all seven games during the season, which was shortened by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) … Recorded eight points on four goals and four assists … Scored a season-high three points on a season-best two goals and an assist against #10 Bucknell … Registered two points on a goal and an assist in the season finale against La Salle … Scored a goal against George Washington, while adding assists against #10 Bucknell and Iona … Defensively, finished with a pair of steals and an ejection drawn.
 
2019 (Freshman): Named to the 2019 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in 13 games as a freshman, recording five points on three goals and a pair of assists … Scored goals against Johns Hopkins, Austin College, and La Salle, while scoring a season-best two points with a pair of helpers against Iona … Made collegiate debut against #2 and eventual national champion Stanford in the first game of the season at the Navy Open.
 
High School / Personal: Lettered in water polo (3 years) and swimming (4) at Loyola Blakefield High School in Towson, Md. … Helped lead the Dons to a 16-4-1 record and the 2018 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) Championship … Earned All-MIAA three times (2016, ’17, ’18), while being selected All-Easterns in 2018 … Voted team captain in 2017 and 2018 … Helped Loyola Blakefield to the MIAA Championship in swimming in 2016 and 2017, being named All-MIAA in 2017 … Son of Gerard and Maria Lindner.
 
Career Statistics

Year	Games	Goals	Assists	Points	Hat Tricks	Steals	KOD
2019	13	3	2	5	0	1	2
2020 *	7	4	4	8	0	2	1
2021	28	5	7	12	0	5	9
2022	30	8	7	15	0	13	10
Totals	78	20	20	40	0	21	22

* – 2020 season played in the spring of 2021
 
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