2024 Men's Lacrosse Roster

Brady Carlson

41 Matt Brandau

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Timonium, Md.
  • Highschool Boys Latin School of Maryland

Biography

2024:

  • Appeared in 15 games, starting 14 of them
  • Recorded 101 points, including 44 goals and 57 assists, each leading the team
  • Recorded a season high 13 points, including six goals and seven assists, in a win over Colgate on Feb. 21, the most ever scored in a single game by a Bulldog.
  • Led the nation in assists per game with 3.8.
  • Became Yale’s all-time leading scorer with 360 career points.
  • Became Yale’s all-time leading goal scorer with 198 goals.
  • 2024 Ivy League Player of the Year
  • 2024 All-Ivy First Team
  • 2024 ??Tewaaraton Award Finalist
  • 2024 Inside Lacrosse All-American First Team
  • Recipient of the Walter T. Collins Award
  • Recipient of the L. C. Stowell Award
  • 2024 William Neely Mallory Award Winner
  • 2024 NEILA New England Player of the Year
  • 2024 All-NEILA First Team
  • 2024 USILA All-American Second Team
  • 2024 ECAC Offensive Player of the Year
  • 2024 Academic All-District At-Large Team Honoree
  • 2024 Second Team Academic All-American
  • 2024 NEILA All-Academic Team
  • Picked 7th overall in the 2024 PLL Draft by the Philadelphia Waterdogs

2023:

  • Earned All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and the USILA.
  • Named the New England Player of the Year.
  • First team All-Ivy selection.
  • Finished 14th in the nation in points per game (4.67) and 15th in assists per game (2.20).
  • Led the Ivy League in assists per game.
  • Tewaaraton Award nominee.
  • Finished the season with 70 points, which tied for the 10th most in a season in school history, and 33 assists, which tied for the ninth most... Scored a goal in all but one game.
  • Tallied a season-high six goals in the win over Dartmouth.
  • Recipient of the L.C. Stowell Award as the team's most valuable player.

Notes: Won a silver medal with Team USA at the World Games in the summer of 2022.

2022:

  • Tewaaraton Award candidate.
  • Ranked second in the nation in points per game (99 points in 17 games).
  • Earned multiple All-America honors.
  • Unanimous first team All-Ivy League selection.
  • Named first team All-ECAC.
  • His 99 points tied him with Jason O'Neill (1990) for second in a season all-time at Yale.


2021: No season due to COVID-19.

2020:

  • NEILA Pre-Season All-New England First Team.
  • Played in all four games... Tallied a point in all four games.
  • Scored season-high four goals in a win over Michigan (3/7).
  • Recorded a season-high six points in a win at Villanova (2/15).
  • Scooped up a season-high four ground balls against UMass (2/29).

2019:

  • Broke own Yale school rookie record with 7 goals (8 pts) in win over Penn State in NCAA Semifinal on 5.25.19.
  • Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week after 6-2-8 vs. Cornell in regular season; also named Baltimore Sun Player of Week.
  • Owns school rookie record for goals and points in a season.
  • Ivy All-Tournament team.
  • 12 goals in NCAA tournament games.
  • NCAA Championships All-Tournament.
  • College Crosse All-Freshmen Team.

At Boys’ Latin School of Maryland: No. 17 on Inside Lacrosse Power 100 Recruits... Four-year letterman... Led team in assists for three consecutive years... Team captain senior year... Named Under Armour All-American as a senior... Earned Baltimore Sun All-Metro and MIAA All-Conference junior and senior years... On team that was MIAA A-Conference runner-up his sophomore and senior seasons.

Personal: Pronounced BRAND-aw... Son of Trish and Mark Brandau... Salutatorian... Two-year letterman in cross country... Twin brother, Chris ‘22, will be a lacrosse goalie for Georgetown...Half-brother, Tim, played lacrosse at Bucknell... Summer Intern at Maury, Donnelly, and Parr Insurance...

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