Career Highs
Goals: 1, four times
Points: 1, four times
Ground balls: 10, three times
Caused Turnovers: 2, vs. Penn, Apr. 16, 2011
Faceoffs Won: 20, at Cornell, Apr. 5, 2014
2014 (Senior):
Named to the NEILA Academic All-Region Team ... Picked up oneground ball against Holy Cross (Feb. 25) ... Tallied oneground ball at Albany (Feb. 28) ... Registered six ground balls andwent 14-of-20 at the faceoff X versus Quinnipiac (March 4) ... Won14-of-18 at the X and posted five ground balls versus Brown (March15) ... Went 9-of-14 on faceoffs and contributed four ground ballsagainst Dartmouth (March 22) ... Caused one turnover at Duke(March 29) ... Recorded 10 ground balls and went 20-of-26 at thefaceoff X at Cornell (April 5) ... Named Ivy League Player ofthe Week April 7 ... Picked up two ground balls and scored onegoal against Boston University (April 8) ... Named the BrineDI National Player of the Week April 10 ... Grabbed 10 groundballs at Penn while winning 13-of-18 faceoffs (April 12) ...Collected three ground balls against Princeton (April 19) ...Picked up five ground balls at Yale while going 8-of-15 at the X(April 26) ... Tallied three ground balls in the Ivy LeagueTournament semifinal game against Yale (May 2) ... Contributedthree ground balls and one caused turnover in the Ivy LeagueTournament championship versus Penn (May 4) ... Picked up fourground balls at Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAATournament (May 10).
2013 (Junior):
Picked up one ground ball against UMass (Feb. 23) ... Tied acareer high with seven groundballs and went 9-of-14 on faceoffsagainst Holy Cross (Feb. 26) ... Picked up two ground ballsand caused one turnover, while going 5-of-9 on faceoffsagainst Hofstra (March 2) ... Posted three ground balls and onecaused turnover in a victory over Georgetown (March 9) ... Was4-of-4 on faceoffs while also picking up a career-high 10ground balls and causing one turnover against Brown (March 16) ...Registered one ground ball in a victory against Bryant (March 20)… Scored first career goal as well as recorded seven groundballs and a caused turnover in a win over Dartmouth (March 23) ...Tallied two ground balls in a game against Albany (March 26) ...Posted two ground balls and one caused turnover versus Cornell(April 6) ... Tallied one goal, six ground balls and one causedturnover in a win over Quinnipiac (April 9) ... Went 11-of-16 onfaceoffs and tied a career-high with seven ground balls versusPrinceton (April 20) ... Recorded a game-high eight ground ballsand credited with one caused turnover against Yale (April 27).
2012 (Sophomore):
Did not see game action.
2011 (Freshman):
Played in 14 games ... Won 75-of-128 faceoffs (.586) and grabbed34 ground balls ... Collected three ground balls and won sixfaceoffs versus No. 20 Georgetown (March 8) ... Earned 10faceoff wins and picked up five ground balls against Bellarmine(March 11) ... Won 7-of-10 faceoffs and collected two ground ballsin win at Brown (March 19) ... Won four faceoffs and collected aground ball in win over No. 14 Massachusetts (March 29) ... Hadeight faceoff victories out of 10 chances and picked up sevenground balls at Albany (April 2) ... Won 10-of-17 faceoffs and hadthree ground balls against No. 6 Cornell (April 9) ... Had sixfaceoff wins on nine attempts and collected three ground balls inwin at Quinnipiac (April 12) ... Scooped up seven ground balls,went 8-of-12 on faceoff chances and caused two turnovers againstNo. 15 Penn (April 16) ... Won six-of-nine faceoffs and had twoground balls in victory at Princeton (April 23) ... Claimed onefaceoff win and collected a ground ball against No. 2 Cornell inIvy tournament final (May 8).
Before Harvard:
Was a four-year starter in lacrosse at midfield andthree-year starter in hockey at defense at Ithaca High School… Captained lacrosse and hockey squads as a senior …Named the No. 92 incoming freshman by Inside Lacrosse ...Two-time All-New York State Public High School Association honoreein lacrosse … Earned Faceoff Man of the Year honors, as wellas all-tournament honors in 2008 … Won 84 percent offaceoffs as a senior … Wendy’s Heisman Award recipient… Academic All-American … Three-time all-conferenceselection in hockey and was a member of the squad’s statechampionship team in 2007 … Earned Princeton Book Award.
Personal:
Part of the Vitamin L Project since 2003 … Recipient of theDistinguished Youth Award in 2009 and has been honored by PresidentBarack Obama and Governor Davis Paterson (N.Y.) for volunteer work… Enjoys playing the trumpet, listening to classic rock,cycling and politics … Great great grandfather, Chester W.Culver, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1899 … Greatgrandfather, William C. Culver, graduated from Harvard in 1926… Grandfather, John C. Culver, is a member of the HarvardFootball Hall of Fame and was a member of the team from 1951-53,before graduating in 1954 and earning his law degree fromHarvard in 1962 … Mother, Christina Culver, graduatedfrom the Harvard Divinity School in 1993 after being a pentathlonathlete as an undergraduate at Hamilton College … Aunt,Rebecca Culver, won an NCAA national championship as a member ofthe Texas swimming and diving team … Grandmother, Ann CooperCulver, won the 1956 women’s senior indoor national divingchampionship and was an Olympic trials finalist, as well as aspeedskating national and North American champion in 1953.
