JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Air Force, Jacksonville and Utah all earned individual superlative awards to headline the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) Men's Lacrosse postseason honors announced Wednesday.
Air Force team captain Josh Yago is the Falcons’ leading point scorer and was named the 2025 ASUN Offensive Player of the Year. Yago, the league's top assister, has 30 assists this season with 13 in conference play. He has five hat tricks and four seven-point showings this season highlighted by a career-best five goal game against Marist. The senior leads the ASUN with 4.67 points per game, a mark that ranks him 12th in the NCAA.
Utah's Nikko DiPonio was named the Defensive Player of the Year after tallying 89 ground balls on the season. Thirty-six of the juinior's ground came in matchups against ASUN opponents. He currently is the lead position player in the NCAA for ground balls coming in at 12th in the nation.
The Falcons' Cole Cunningham secured the Specialist of the Year accolade. He is second in the league in ground balls per game (5.25) and has picked up a career best eight ground balls on three occasions. He is eighth in the league in caused turnovers per game (1.15) and caused a career best five turnovers five turnovers against Queens.
Daylin John-Hill earned the Jacksonville program its first Men's Lacrosse Freshman of the Year award after ranking first among the league's freshmen in goals (28). The attacker is seventh in the ASUN for assists (18) as a freshman and was ranked the #11 Impact Freshman by Inside Lacrosse.
ASUN Coach of the Year Bill Wilson turned around an 0-4 start to the season to finish on a four-game winning streak, guiding the Falcons to a share of the ASUN Regular Season title while knocking off previous conference undefeated Utah. This season's Air Force squad has the league's best shot percentage (.333) and averages the second-most goals per game with 12.46.
Offensive Player of the Year: Josh Yago, Air Force
Defensive Player of the Year: Nikko DiPonio, Utah
Specialist of the Year: Cole Cunningham, Air Force
Freshman of the Year: Daylin John-Hill, Jacksonville
Coach of the Year: Bill Wilson, Air Force
First Team All-ASUN
A - ^Josh Yago, Air Force**
A - ^Jack Taylor, Jacksonville**
A - Ryan Stines, Utah**
MF - Wes Peene, Air Force
MF - Justin Wescoat, Bellarmine
MF - Ethan LaMond, Jacksonville
LS - Cole Cunningham, Air Force
SS - Breyden Harrison, Jacksonville
D - ^Nikko DiPonio, Utah**
D - Michael Meredith, Jacksonville
D - Aaron Toguri, Jacksonville
FO - Tyler Kloeckl, Utah
GK - Nicky West, Queens
Second Team All-ASUN
A - Caelan Driggs, Air Force
A - John Alie, Bellarmine**
A - Jackson Intrieri, Jacksonville**
MF - Nicky Brown, Jacksonville
MF - Cade Faulkner, Utah
MF - Chase Robertson, Utah
LS - Deacon Adams, Queens
LS - Colby Plotts, Utah**
SS - Ben Trask, Utah
D - Jacob Schreck, Queens
D - Michael White, Queens
D - Luca Pivetta, Utah
FO - Drew Rippeon, Jacksonville
GK - Colin Lenskold, Utah
^ denotes a unanimous selection to the All-ASUN First Team
* denotes the number of career All-ASUN selections
Note - a tie in voting resulted in 14-person All-ASUN Second Team
All-Freshman Team
^Daylin John-Hill, Jacksonville
^Aidan Chairs, Air Force
^Joe Alie, Bellarmine
^Nolan Hudnut, Bellarmine
^Ezra Moore, Bellarmine
^Lucas Fraser, Jacksonville
^Michael Meredith, Jacksonville
^Will Zylstra, Mercer
^Luke McNamara, Utah
^Chase Robertson, Utah
^Sky Rold, Utah
Leo Prosser, Bellarmine
Marco Pascarella, Utah
^
denotes a unanimous selection to the All-Freshman Team