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Notre Dame senior attackman Chris Kavanagh named Tewaaraton finalist

IMG_9992by:Tyler Horka•05/08/25•

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Notre Dame attackman Chris Kananagh. (Photo courtesy of Notre Dame Athletics)

Chris Kavanagh has far and away been Notre Dame’s best men’s lacrosse player this season. Turns out, he’s one of the five best men’s lacrosse players in the country.

Kavanagh was named a 2025 Tewaaraton Award finalist on Thursday.

The Tewaaraton Award is given annually to the best college lacrosse player in the nation. Notre Dame had its first winner in the honor’s prestigious history just last season. Kavanagh’s brother, Pat, took it home as a three-time finalist. Third time was clearly a charm.

Former Fighting Irish goalie Liam Entenmann was a finalist along with Pat in 2024. Kavanagh is the sixth player to be finalist in Notre Dame history, joining those two along with another one of his brothers, Matt Kavanagh (2015), Matt Landis (2016) and Tom Glatzel (2001).

Kavanagh ranks 10th nationally in points per game with 4.67. He had 33 goals and 23 assists in Notre Dame’s 12 games leading into the NCAA Tournament, which gets going for the 8-4 Irish against No. 4 seed Ohio State (14-2) in Columbus at 12 p.m. ET this Sunday (ESPN2).

Kavanagh was bestowed the ACC Offensive Player of the Year award for his terrific job pacing an Irish team that isn’t scoring like the ones that won back-to-back national championships in 2023 and 2024. The player with the second most points on the Notre Dame roster, Jake Taylor, has 30. Kavanagh nearly has twice as many.

Kavanagh is second in Notre Dame program history in all-time goals (145), third in points (232) and seventh in assists (87). He’s lit up the Irish record book in his time in South Bend, but it will take a bit of a surprise to join his brother as a Tewaaraton winner. The competition he’s up against will be tough to overcome.

The other four finalists in the running are Jackson Eicher (Army), Sam King (Harvard), CJ Kirst (Cornell) and Coulter Mackesy (Princeton).

Kirst leads the nation in points per game with 6.53. He’s the best player on the best team, which is often an easy choice to claim hardware. Cornell is the No. 1 seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Eicher is second in the nation in points per game with 6.07, King is 11th with 4.57 and Mackesy, the only midfielder of the bunch, is tied for 41st at 3.67.

The Tewaaraton Award winner will be announced on May 29 in Washington D.C.

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