STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) men's lacrosse postseason honors have been released and five Saint Joseph's College players have earned accolades.
Grad midfielder Nathaniel Girardin (Brunswick, Maine) has claimed First Team All-Conference honors, senior attack Tim Goodfellow (Wayland, Mass.) and grad defender Connor Bogdanski (Southington, Conn.) are listed on the Second Team, grad Xavier Michaud (Wales, Maine) is a Third Team honoree, and freshman midfielder Zander Kirk (Bath, Maine) has earned All-Rookie Team accolades.
Girardin, a grad transfer from NCAA DII Franklin Pierce University, collects First Team All-GNAC honors after tallying 37 goals, 20 assists, 36 ground balls, and eight caused turnovers during his lone season with the Monks. He finished the season ranked 13th in the conference in points and 16th in goals and assists.
Goodfellow, a three-time All-GNAC pick, earns Second Team All-Conference accolades for the second year in a row after netting 39 goals with 43 assists for 82 total points while picking up 37 ground balls in 18 games during his senior season. He led the team – and ranked second in the GNAC - in assists and points and established a career high in the latter category this spring.
In 49 career games, Goodfellow scored 112 goals with 105 assists for 217 total points with 104 ground balls and 20 caused turnovers. He capped his career as the Monks' all-time leader in points and assists and currently ranks third in team history in goals. Among active NCAA DIII men's lacrosse players – as of May 7th - he ranked 30th in assists per game (2.08), 35th in points per game (4.30), and 37th in total assists.
Bogdanski takes home the second All-Conference nod of his career after scoring a goal with 28 ground balls and 31 caused turnovers while starting all 18 games for the Monks this spring. For his career, he tallied two goals, two assists, 83 ground balls, and 74 caused turnovers. He finished his time as a Monk tied for third in program history in caused turnovers.
Michaud secures Third Team All-GNAC honors for the second consecutive season after scoring 57 goals with 63 total points and 24 ground balls this spring. He finished the year ranked second in the conference in goals and man-up goals (12) and was fifth in shots on goal (91), seventh in shots (135), and ninth in total points. Michaud was also seventh in NCAA DIII in man-up markers as of May 7th.
The grad standout topped his own SJC single-season goals record in 2024 and capped his collegiate career ranked second in team history in goals (144) and third in shots (429), shots on goal (257), man-up goals (25), and points (178).
Kirk is listed on the GNAC All-Rookie Team after scoring a goal with an assist to go with 104 ground balls and a 56.6% (185-327) face-off winning percentage – including a 59.0% mark in GNAC play - as a freshman FOGO. His 2024 face-off win and ground ball totals both rank as the second-highest tallies in a season in program history.
Under the watch of eighth-year Head Coach Bill Cosentino this season, the Monks posted a 10-8 overall record with a 7-3 mark in conference play. As the #3 seed in the GNAC North Division, St. Joe's played at Dean College, the #2 seed in the South Division, in a conference quarterfinal on April 27th and suffered a hard fought 14-12 defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs.
