Syracuse University Athletics

Senior Year (2009): USILA First-Team All-American … Tewaaraton Trophy and Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Finalist … Named a USILA Scholar All-American and selected to the Lowe’s Senior All-America First Team … Selected to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team after recording five assists in the postseason, including one on Kenny Nims’ game-tying goal versus Cornell at the end of regulation in the NCAA title game … Team captain … Started all 18 games in the midfield … One of seven players to start every game … Team leader with 77 ground balls … Recorded at least five ground balls in a game five times … Scored 23 points (12g, 11a) … Career-best four points (2g, 2a) versus Johns Hopkins … Scored two goals, including the game-winner, and had an assist at Georgetown … Two goals against Albany …One goal, one assist and seven ground balls against Binghamton … One goal, one assist and collected a career-best 10 ground balls versus Princeton at the Inside Lacrosse Big City Classic … Scored a goal and scooped up nine ground balls at Loyola … Also had goals in wins against Providence, Cornell during the regular season, and at Massachusetts … Dished out two assists versus Maryland in the NCAA quarterfinals and Cornell in the NCAA championship game … Also had assists in wins against Hobart and Duke (NCAA) … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.

Junior Year (2008): Named to the USILA All-America Third Team … Played in all 18 contests with 11 starts … Saw action in a variety of situations, including man-down and on clears … Also played some defensive midfield … Second on the team with 73 ground balls … Scored 21 points (13g, 8a) … Went 2-for-4 (.500) on faceoffs … Registered the first hat trick of his career with three goals to help lead the Orange to a come-from-behind win against Virginia in the NCAA semifinals … Tied his season-best with three points against Binghamton and at Hobart, including a personal-best two assists in each game … Netted two goals at Colgate … Registered six points (5g, 1a) in SU’s four NCAA Tournament games … Collected at least one point in five consecutive games against Massachusetts, Colgate, Canisius (NCAA), Notre Dame (NCAA) and Virginia (NCAA) … Eight ground balls against Princeton … Scooped up at least five ground balls seven times … Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall.

Sophomore Year (2007): Played in all 13 games with one start … Second on the team with 51 ground balls … Scored 15 points (9g, 6a) … Five multi-point games … Tallied a season-best three points, including two goals at Georgetown … Started versus Colgate and tied his season high with two goals … Scored two points (1g, 1a) versus Binghamton, Cornell and Albany … Also had goals against Virginia and Rutgers … Recorded assists at Loyola and Massachusetts … Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.

Freshman Year (2006): Played in all 15 games with one start … Made his first career start against Massachusetts … Tallied seven goals and one assist for a total of eight points … Scooped up 11 ground balls and was 1-for-5 on faceoff opportunities … Netted two points on a season-high two goals in his first collegiate contest versus Army … Scored one goal versus Hobart, Loyola, Massachusetts, at Colgate and against Virginia in the NCAA semifinals … Registered his first career assist in the NCAA quarterfinals against Johns Hopkins … Member of the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.

High School: Played varsity lacrosse at Nottingham High School from eighth grade until his senior year … Scored 42 goals and had 29 assists for 71 points his senior year … Totaled 212 career points (131 goals, 81 assists) … Three-time team captain (sophomore, junior, senior year) … Helped the 2004 Empire State Games Central team to a gold medal … Earned honorable mention all-league laurels his freshman year … Named first-team all-league and All-CNY Honorable Mention his sophomore year … Selected as an alternate to the Empire State Games Central team his sophomore year … First-team all-league and first-team All-CNY his junior year … First-team all-league, first-team All-CNY and All-American his senior year … Earned his team’s offensive MVP award as a junior … Named team MVP as a senior.

Personal: Matthew Joseph Abbott ... Born in September 1986 in Syracuse, N.Y. … Son of Tom and Lorie Abbott … One brother, one sister … Third member of the Abbott family to play lacrosse at Syracuse University, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Larry Abbott (1950-52) and father, Tom Abbott (1975-78) … Majoring in accounting and finance.