UND Roster
2020-21 Men's Lacrosse
Roster
#88 Kyle Thornton
Defense
Class
Grad Student
Height
6-1
Weight
165
Hometown
Garden City, NY
High School
Chaminade
2020 (at Penn)
- Started five games
- All 2020 Ivy League spring sports were canceled on Wednesday, March, 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19
- Scored his first career goal against Penn State (2/29)
2019 (at Penn)
- Honorable mention All-Ivy
- Started all 16 games on defense
- Finished with 24 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers
2018 (at Penn)
- Played in all 15 games on defense, starting six (including five of the last six)
- Led the team with 16 caused turnovers
- Sixth on the team with 20 ground balls
- Had three CT and two GB in Ivy win at Princeton (3/17)
- Recorded two CT and a GB in Penn’s 10-9 win over No. 1 Duke, the program’s first-ever win over a team ranked at the top of the USILA poll (2/24)
2017 (at Penn)
- Appeared in five games during his freshman season and started all five of those contests on defense
- Recorded 10 ground balls and caused six turnovers
- Notched two ground balls in his first collegiate start vs. Brown (4/8)
- Collected a season-high four ground balls vs. Virginia (4/29) in the ACC Showcase game
PREP & PERSONAL
- Won a 2015 league championship with a 13-4 record
- Was a 2016 All-Long Island and all-league selection
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Son of Kathleen and Timothy Thornton
- Father played soccer at Amherst
- Brother, Shane, played lacrosse at Yale and another brother, Tim, played lacrosse at Amherst