#7 Chris Fake Men's Lacrosse Roster

AWARDS & HONORS (at ND)

• 2023 NCAA National Champion (first in program history)
• 2023 NCAA All-Tournament Team
• 2023 All-ACC Team
• 2023 US Lacrosse Magazine All-American (Second Team)
• 2023 Inside Lacrosse All-American (Third Team)
• 2023 USILA All-American (Third Team)
• 2023 CSC Academic All-American (Third Team)
• Drafted by the Waterdogs in the 2023 PLL Draft with the No. 24 overall selection in the third round

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2023)

• Helped lead Notre Dame to its first national title in program history
• Named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team
• Started all 16 games as a defenseman in his final season of collegiate lacrosse
• Played a huge role in Notre Dame’s sixth-ranked scoring defense (9.69) in the country and best in the ACC despite playing nine of its 16 games against top 10 scoring offenses in the country
• Consistently assigned to cover the opponent’s top attackman
• Finished the season with 13 caused turnovers and 29 ground balls
• Put the clamps on Tewaaraton winner Brennan O’Neill from Duke on two occasions, holding him to a single goal in the first matchup (scored on EMO when Fake wasn’t covering) and to just a goal and an assist in the NCAA Championship title game. The two outings were O’Neill’s lowest point outputs of his season
• Held Ohio State’s Jack Myers without a point in Notre Dame’s win over the No. 10 Buckeyes
• Allowed Tewaaraton Finalist Tucker Dordevic to record just one point, his season low, in the win over No. 15 Georgetown

AS A SENIOR (2021 AT YALE)

•  Preseason All-American
• No season due to COVID-19.

AS A JUNIOR (2020 AT YALE)

• IL Second-Team All-America
• IL Pre-Season All-American Second Team
• USILA Warrior & NB Pre-Season All-American First Team
• Named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List
• NEILA Pre-Season All-New England First Team
• Started in all four games
• Scored first career goal against Penn State (2/22)
• Scooped a ground ball and recorded a caused turnover against Penn State

AS A SOPHOMORE (2019 AT YALE)

• Named to Tewaaraton Award Watch List
• IL Media All-America
• USILA Warrior & New Balance All-America second team
• First-Team All-Ivy
• Ivy All-Tourney
• 3.18 USILA Tm of Week
• First-team All-New England
• Yale’s Christian Prince Memorial Award for best defensive player

AS A FRESHMAN (2018 AT YALE)

• Unanimous First-Team All-Ivy League
• First Team NEILA All-New England Team
• Ivy League Rookie of the Year
• IL All-American
• Second Team USILA All-America
• ALL-ECAC Second Team
• NCAA Championship Weekend All-Tournament Team
• USILA Team of the Week member on 4.24.18 after helping Yale beat No. 2 Albany 14-6. He limited Danes” top 2 scorers to a combined 1 assist.

PREP & PERSONAL

• Under Armour All-American and USA Today All-American in 2017
• First-Team All-League, First-Team All-State, and team MVP in 2017
• Captain of the 2016 and 2017 teams
• All-American, USA Today preseason All-American and the Huns Male Student-Athlete Award Winner in 2016
• First-Team All-League and First-Team All-State honors in 2016
• Won the league championships in 2015 and 2016
• State champions in 2015
• Four-year varsity starter
• New Jersey Sophomore of the Year, received All-American honors, and made All-Inter AC Tournament Team in 2015
• Fake is the son of Kim and Jim Fake
• Dad, Jim, played football at Albany and rugby at SUNY Buffalo
• Cum Laude Society
• National Honor Society
• All-MAPL Academic Team
• Played for the football team for three years
• First-Team All-League honors in football as a junior and senior
• Team defensive MVP as a senior
• Won the league championships three straight times while only losing one game
• Captain in football senior year
• Chemical Engineering Major at Yale who is also in the Energy Studies Program
• Volunteered at Marty’s Place, an old dog sanctuary where older dogs, who won’t get adopted and don’t have a family, go to live out the rest of their lives