AWARDS & HONORS
2017 // SOPHOMORE
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Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 // SENIOR //
- Appeared in 18 games, starting 10 during senior season
- Logged first shot of the season in 3-0 win at Juniata (10/5)
- Helped the defense to eight shutouts, second most in the league
- Also helped Elizabethtown to a season-long 402:10 of not allowing a goal over a six game stretch
2018 // JUNIOR // GAME-BY-GAME STATS
- Appeared in 20 games, making a career-high 19 starts
- Finished the season with three points, registering his first career goals and assists
- First career goal was the game winning goal in the Blue Jays' 2-1 victory over Moravian in the Landmark Semifinals (10/31)
- First career assist came in the team's 5-1 victory over Goucher (10/20)
- Started both NCAA Tournament games against Williams (11/10) and Cortland (11/11)
- Helped defense lead the Landmark with nine shutouts on the season
2017 // SOPHOMORE // GAME-BY-GAME STATS
- Played in career-high 13 games, starting one
- Spent time all over the field, logging minutes at forward, in the midfield and at outside back
- Lone start came at Penn State Harrisburg (9/16)
- Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll student-athlete
2016 // FRESHMAN // GAME-BY-GAME STATS
- Made five starts and took part in 11 games
- Saw first collegiate action in a 4-1 win over The College of New Jersey (9/3)
- Inserted into the starting lineup for the first time in 3-0 win at Moravian (10/5)
- Appeared in five of the team's nine shutouts
- Part of a defense that ranked second in the Landmark in goals against average (0.81) and tied for second in total goals allowed (17)
HIGH SCHOOL
- Three-year starter and two-time state champion for coach Shane Snyder at Washington Township High School
- Team put together one of the best three-year runs in South Jersey soccer history, going 76-3-1 between 2013-15
- Recorded a goal and an assist as a sophomore (2013), helping the Minutemen to a 25-1 record, Olympic Conference championship and South Jersey Group 4 final
- Put up a goal and three helpers in 2014 when team went 26-1 with Olympic Conference, South Jersey Group 4 and NJSIAA Group 4 championships
- Team repeated as Olympic Conference, South Jersey Group 4 and NJSIAA Group 4 champions while compiling a 25-1-1 record during his senior season (2015)
- Named All-Olympic Conference Second Team in 2015
- Part of a defense that set program records in wins, shutouts and fewest goals allowed multiple times
- Also a sprinter on the track team for three years
- Qualified for state championships in the 4x100-meter relay in 2014 and 2015
- Involved in class council, Spanish Club, interact, science league
- Served as a peer facilitator and was a counselor at Fantastic Fizz Ed summer camp
PERSONAL
- Son of Bill and Lauren Connolly
- Has an older sister, Megan
- Father played football at Ursinus College
- Engineering major with a focus in mechanical engineering
