Cole Kastner Season 2024-25

Career Highlights

• NCAA Champion (2021, lacrosse)
• Two-time USILA Second Team All-American (2022, 2024)
• USILA All-America honorable mention (2023)
• Two-time Inside Lacrosse Second Team All-American (2022, 2024)
• Inside Lacrosse All-America honorable mention (2023)
• Two-time USA Lacrosse Third Team All-American (2023, 2024)

• ACC Defensive Player of the Year (2022)
• Two-time Tewaaraton Award nominee (2022, 2024)
• All-ACC (2023, 2024)
• USILA Scholar All-American (2024)
• CSC Academic All-District (2023)
• Concluded his career third all-time in career caused turnovers (95)
• Started in all four NCAA Tournament games amid UVA’s 2021 national championship run
• Selected eighth in the fourth round by the California Redwoods in the 2024 PLL College Draft
  
  

As a Senior (2024, at Virginia):

• USILA Second Team All-American
• Inside Lacrosse Second Team All-American
• USA Lacrosse Third Team All-American
• All-ACC Team
• Tewaaraton Award nominee
• USILA Scholar All-American
• Team captain
• Tied his career high of five caused turnovers in 13-10 comeback win at No. 16 Harvard (March 30)
• USA Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Second Team All-American
• Inside Lacrosse Preseason First Team All-American
• USILA Preseason First Team All-American
• Preseason All-ACC Team Selection
  
  

As a Junior (2023, at Virginia):

• USILA All-American Honorable Mention (May 25)
• All-ACC selection (May 9)
• Inside Lacrosse Honorable Mention All-American (May 17)
• USA Lacrosse Magazine Third Team All-American (May 9)
• CSC Academic All-District (May 23)
• ACC Defensive Player of the Week (March 28)
• Tewaaraton Award Watch List
• Recorded a career-high six ground balls at No. 2 Duke (April 15)
• Inside Lacrosse Second Team Preseason All-American
• USA Lacrosse Magazine First Team Preseason All-American
• Preseason All-ACC Team
• Team captain
• Recipient of the 2023-24 T. Rodney Crowley Scholarship
• All-ACC Academic Team
• ACC Academic Honor Roll
  
  

As a Sophomore (2022, at Virginia)

• USILA Second Team All-American (May 26)
• Inside Lacrosse Second Team All-American (May 15)
• ACC Defensive Player of the Year (May 12). UVA’s first defenseman to garner ACC Player-of-the-Year honors since 2002
• All-ACC selection (May 12)
• USA Lacrosse Magazine Second Team All-American (May 10)
• VaSID Defensive Player of the Year & All-State Team (June 29)
• Appeared in 16 games, including 15 starts
• Finished the season with 29 ground balls and 32 caused turnovers
• His 32 caused turnovers led the ACC and were good for sixth in the nation and the most by a UVA player in a single season since 2017
• Recorded five ground balls and four caused turnovers in the NCAA Tournament
• Scored an unassisted goal against Lafayette (April 28)
• Tewaaraton Award nominee (April 21)
• Tewaaraton Foundation Watch List First Round Addition (March 10)
• ACC Defensive Player of the Week (March 15)
• ACC Defensive Player of the Week (March 8)
• Tallied a career-best five caused turnovers in Virginia’s 19-8 win over then-No. 14/15 Johns Hopkins (March 5)
• Also scored his first career goal against the Blue Jays
• Registered four caused turnovers in three of Virginia’s first four games

As a Freshman (2021, at Virginia)

• NCAA Champion
• Appeared in all 18 of UVA’s games with four starts
• Made all four starts in the NCAA Tournament
• Picked up 14 ground balls and caused seven turnovers
• Scored first career point on an assist at UNC
• Helped hold Georgetown’s Jake Carraway without a goal in the NCAA quarterfinal round, snapping the nation’s longest active goal-scoring streak at 44 games
  
  

HIGH SCHOOL

• Three-year starter in basketball
• MVP at the Martin Luther King Jr. Showcase at American Canyon
• Ten times named the Palo Alto Weekly Honorable Mention Athlete of the Week in basketball
• All-state second team (basketball)
• Led Bay Area with 17 double-doubles as a junior
• Averaged 17 points per game, 10 rebounds per game and three assists per game as a senior
• Norcal Sports TV All-Star game selection
• Team captain as a senior
• MVP of the West Bay Athletic League as a senior
• Three-year starter, two-time captain on lacrosse team
• First-team All-West Catholic Athletic League
• Adrenaline Lacrosse four-star recruit
• US Lacrosse All-American
• Earned seven letters in high school
  
  

PERSONAL

• Son of Anne and Eric Kastner
• Has two older half-brothers, Gage and Brett, and two older half-sisters, Krista and Abby
• Father, Eric, played football and rugby at Cal