“Four Stars Shine Bright: Carroll, Lavelle, Rubin, and Walsh Make USA Lax Mag’s Preseason All-America List!”

PHILADELPHIA – USA Lacrosse Magazine has revealed its Preseason All-America Teams for the 2025 men’s lacrosse season, with four players from the University of Pennsylvania included. Senior goalkeeper Emmet Carroll and senior defenseman Brendan Lavelle were honored with first-team All-America distinctions, while seniors Tynan Walsh and Cam Rubin received honorable mentions.
 
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Emmet Carroll, GK – First Team
A widely recognized second-team All-America goalkeeper in 2024, Carroll was also a Tewaaraton Award nominee and made the first-team All-Ivy selections last season. He achieved a .594 save percentage, ranking X nationally, and had a 10.82 goals-against average. Notably, he delivered an impressive performance in the Ivy League Tournament, where Carroll made a career-high 19 saves in the semifinal victory over Cornell, and followed that with another personal best (20 saves) in the final against Princeton. Additionally, Carroll ranked fourth nationally on Inside Lacrosse‘s Top 50 Players For 2025 list, revealed on December 16.
 
Brendan Lavelle, D – First Team
Lavelle was recognized as a consensus first-team All-America and a unanimous first-team All-Ivy choice in 2024 and aims to replicate those honors in 2025. His standout performance last season occurred against No. 1 Duke, where he accumulated six ground balls, caused two turnovers, and restricted reigning Tewaaraton Award winner Brennan O’Neill to a single goal on eight attempts, helping Penn hand the Blue Devils their first loss of the season. Lavelle also secured the tenth position nationally on Inside Lacrosse‘s Top 50 Players For 2025 list.
 
Tynan Walsh, A – Honorable Mention
Walsh topped Penn in assists (22) and points (45) last season while ranking third in goals (23). As he approaches the 2025 season, he carries a total of 41 career goals and 41 assists, equating to 82 points. Last season, the senior attacker recorded ten multi-point games and seven multi-goal outings, including four-goal performances against Dartmouth and Harvard, along with a seven-point game (2g/5a) against Delaware.
 
Cam Rubin, M – Honorable Mention
Rubin was Penn’s leading scorer last year, netting 31 goals, and he enters the 2025 campaign with 77 career goals and 96 career points. Notably, his best performances in 2024 were against Cornell and Harvard, where he scored six goals in each of those regular-season meetings. His sixth goal against the Big Red was the overtime winner, and he also scored the decisive goal in Penn’s 14-12 triumph over No. 1 Duke (the program’s second-ever victory against a top-ranked team).
 
Penn, ranked 12th in USA Lacrosse Magazine’s Preseason Top 20, will commence the 2025 season on Saturday, Feb. 15 at Georgetown, which holds the 14th position in the preseason rankings. The Quakers’ schedule for 2025 includes eight matches against teams featured in the USA Lacrosse Magazine preseason rankings—five of which are against Top 8 teams—along with matchups versus UAlbany and Villanova, which were counted among the five teams in the “also receiving votes” category.
 
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