Career Honors:
2023 ACWPC All-Academic Team (Excellent)
2023 (Senior): Named to the 2023 ACWPC All-Academic Team … Played in 15 of the 27 games during the season … Ended the year with nine points on three goals and six assists, while adding five steals and five ejections drawn … Scored goals against #11 UC San Diego (Triton Invitational), Johns Hopkins, and Connecticut College, while notching assists versus Cal State Fullerton (Triton Invitational), Biola (Triton Invitational), Mount St. Mary’s, Connecticut College, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins (MAWPC Tournament) … Credited with steals against #19 Santa Clara (Princeton Invitational), Mount St. Mary’s, Gannon (Salem Invitational), Connecticut College, and Johns Hopkins.
2022 (Junior): Played in 29 of the Midshipmen’s 31 games on the year … Finished the season with nine points on seven goal and a pair of assists … Scored a season-high two points with a goal and an assist versus McKendree … Also netting goals against Iona (Princeton Invitational), Mount St. Mary’s, #19 George Washington, Wagner, and Johns Hopkins … Added a helper versus Biola (Navy Open) … Finished the year with 24 ejections drawn and six steals.
2021 (Sophomore): Played in 26 of Navy’s 29 games during the season … Tallied seven points on six goals and one assist, while registering three steals and three ejections drawn … Recorded a season-high two points with a goal and an assist against Biola, while adding goals against Salem, Brown, Iona, Fordham, and Mount St. Mary’s.
2020 (Freshman): Played all seven of Navy’s games during the season, which was shortened by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) … Recorded nine points on seven goals and a pair of assists … Scored a season-high five goals in the season finale against La Salle for first collegiate hat trick … Also netted goals against #10 Bucknell and George Washington … Registered assists at La Salle and versus Iona … Defensively, finished the year with seven ejections drawn and three steals.
High School / Personal: Lettered in water polo (4 years) and swimming (2) at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn. … Helped Brunswick to the New England Championships (2015-19) and East Coast Championship (2018-19) … Named team MVP in 2018 and 2019 … Earned the Grit Award in 2019 … Member of the High Honor Roll … Son of Alex and Faina Yelensky … Father, Alex, played water polo at UMass (1988-91) … Sister, Kayla (’24), is a member of the Princeton women’s water polo team.
Career Statistics
| Year |
Games |
Goals |
Assists |
Points |
Hat Tricks |
Steals |
KOD |
| 2020 * |
7 |
7 |
2 |
9 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
| 2021 |
26 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| 2022 |
29 |
7 |
2 |
9 |
0 |
6 |
24 |
| 2023 |
15 |
3 |
6 |
9 |
0 |
5 |
5 |
| Totals |
77 |
23 |
11 |
34 |
1 |
17 |
39 |
* – 2020 season played in the spring of 2021
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