Nick Cardile Season 2021

CAREER NOTES & RECORDS
Career: Named a USILA honorable-mention All-American in 2019…Selected to Big Ten All-Tournament Team in 2019...Played in 63 games, including 48 as a starter...Finished with five goals, three assists, 101 ground balls and 53 caused turnovers...Won four Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week awards.

2021 • SENIOR SEASON
Season: Named a team captain…Started all 11 games...Finished with one goal, one assist, 24 ground balls and a team-high 10 caused turnovers...Picked up at least one ground ball in nine games, including a season-high five in the season opener at Rutgers (2/20)...Caused at least one turnover in six games, including a season-high three in a win over Johns Hopkins (3/28)...Earned one Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award (3/30).
 
at Rutgers (2/20): Picked up a season-high five ground balls. Maryland (2/26): Picked up one ground ball. Ohio State (3/6): Finished with four ground balls and one caused turnover. at Johns Hopkins (3/13): Tallied two ground balls and one caused turnover. at Michigan (3/20): Contributed one assist, one ground ball and one caused turnover. Johns Hopkins (3/28): Caused a season-high three turnovers and added three ground balls. at Maryland (4/3): Caused two turnovers. Rutgers (4/10): Scored a goal and picked up one ground ball. at Ohio State (4/24): Picked up four ground balls. Johns Hopkins (5/1): Tallied three ground balls and one caused turnover in the quarterfinal round of the Big Ten Tournament.
 
2020 • SENIOR SEASON
Awards: Named a second-team All-American by Inside Lacrosse…Won one Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award (3/3).
 
Season: Named a team captain…Started all five games he played and missed two with an injury…Finished with two goals, seven ground balls and eight caused turnovers…Had a season-high three caused turnovers against Yale (2/22)…The 2020 season was cancelled March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Lafayette (2/1): Picked up two ground balls and caused one turnover. at Villanova (2/8): Scored one goal and caused one turnover. Saint Joseph’s (2/15): Finished with two ground balls and two caused turnovers. Yale (2/22): Tallied a season-high three caused turnovers and added two ground balls. at Penn (2/29): Contributed one goal, one ground ball and one caused turnover.
 
2019 • JUNIOR SEASON
Awards: Named an honorable-mention All-American…Earned a spot on the Big Ten All-Tournament Team...Was a two-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (4/9, 4/30).
 
Season: Started all 18 games, finishing with 40 ground balls, 22 caused turnovers and three points on one goal and two assists…Registered double-digit ground balls in 13 games.
 
Villanova (2/2): Picked up two ground balls. Robert Morris (2/9): Had two ground balls for the second-straight game. at Yale (2/23): Tallied three ground balls and one caused turnover. Penn (3/2): Caused one turnover. vs. Cornell (3/8): Finished with three ground balls and two caused turnovers. at Cleveland State (3/23): Scored lone goal of the season and added two ground balls. at Maryland (3/31): Registered four ground balls as the Lions recorded their first varsity win over the Terrapins. Ohio State (4/7): Scooped up three ground balls. at Michigan (4/13): Had one ground ball. Johns Hopkins (4/21): Tallied two ground balls. Rutgers (4/27): Finished with four ground balls and one caused turnover as Penn State clinched its first Big Ten regular season title. Rutgers (5/2): Tallied an assist, four ground balls and two caused turnovers. Johns Hopkins (5/4): Picked up two ground balls as Penn State won its first Big Ten Tournament title. UMBC (5/12): Caused one turnover. vs. Loyola (Md.) (5/19): Recorded an assist and a season-high five ground balls. vs. Yale (5/25): Finished with a season-high five caused turnovers and three ground balls in the program’s first appearance in the NCAA Semifinals.
 
2018 • SOPHOMORE SEASON
Season: Played in 13 games, starting eight at long-stick middle…Finished the season with one goal and one assist…Scooped up 18 ground balls and caused six turnovers.
 
Cleveland State (3/24): Scored his first career goal.
 
2017 • FRESHMAN SEASON
Season: Played in 16 games…Finished with 12 ground balls and seven caused turnovers.
 
at Hobart (2/11): Picked up two ground balls. Cornell (2/18): Recorded a ground ball. Villanova (2/25): Tallied another ground ball. Furman (3/7): Picked up a ground ball. Harvard (3/11): Caused a turnover. Cleveland State (3/25): Picked up two ground balls and recorded a season-high two caused turnovers. Ohio State (4/2): Tallied a season-high three ground balls and caused a turnover. at Maryland (4/8): Made first career start…Picked up a ground ball. at Michigan (4/30): Caused a turnover. Maryland (5/4): Recorded a ground ball in Big Ten Tournament game. Towson (5/13):  Caused two turnovers in NCAA Tournament game.
 
PRIOR TO PENN STATE
Helped guide the Avon Grove Red Devils to a Ches-Mont Championship in 2013 and a state finalist appearance in 2014...Named 2015 team captain, earning first-team All-Ches-Mont honors...Garnered two consecutive second-team All-Ches-Mont honors in 2013-14, while also helping the Red Devils to District I Championships...Was a DLN All-Area Boys Lacrosse team selection in 2015, as well as an Underclassmen All-American...Played club with Mesa Fresh.
 
PERSONAL
Born Nicholas Salvatore Cardile on November 14, 1997, in Newark, Delaware...Parents are David and Christine Cardile...Has one brother, David, and three sisters, Gabrielle, Alexandra and Katelyn...Brother played club lacrosse at Penn State...Majored in criminology.