2022-23 Men's Lacrosse Roster

#7 Chris Fake Men's Lacrosse Roster

Defense


Class Graduate Student
Height 6-1
Weight 205
Hometown Allentown, NJ
High School The Hun School of Princeton
Chris Fake - Men's Lacrosse - Notre Dame Fighting Irish

AWARDS & HONORS (at ND)

  • 2023 NCAA National Champion (first in program history)
  • 2023 NCAA All-Tournament Team
  • 2023 All-ACC Team
  • 2023 US Lacrosse Magazine All-American (Second Team)
  • 2023 Inside Lacrosse All-American (Third Team)
  • 2023 USILA All-American (Third Team)
  • 2023 CSC Academic All-American (Third Team)
  • Drafted by the Waterdogs in the 2023 PLL Draft with the No. 24 overall selection in the third round

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2023)

  • Helped lead Notre Dame to its first national title in program history
  • Named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team
  • Started all 16 games as a defenseman in his final season of collegiate lacrosse
  • Played a huge role in Notre Dame’s sixth-ranked scoring defense (9.69) in the country and best in the ACC despite playing nine of its 16 games against top 10 scoring offenses in the country
  • Consistently assigned to cover the opponent’s top attackman
  • Finished the season with 13 caused turnovers and 29 ground balls
  • Put the clamps on Tewaaraton winner Brennan O’Neill from Duke on two occasions, holding him to a single goal in the first matchup (scored on EMO when Fake wasn’t covering) and to just a goal and an assist in the NCAA Championship title game. The two outings were O’Neill’s lowest point outputs of his season
  • Held Ohio State’s Jack Myers without a point in Notre Dame’s win over the No. 10 Buckeyes
  • Allowed Tewaaraton Finalist Tucker Dordevic to record just one point, his season low, in the win over No. 15 Georgetown

AS A SENIOR (2021 AT YALE)

  •  Preseason All-American
  • No season due to COVID-19.

AS A JUNIOR (2020 AT YALE)

  • IL Second-Team All-America
  • IL Pre-Season All-American Second Team
  • USILA Warrior & NB Pre-Season All-American First Team
  • Named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List
  • NEILA Pre-Season All-New England First Team
  • Started in all four games
  • Scored first career goal against Penn State (2/22)
  • Scooped a ground ball and recorded a caused turnover against Penn State

AS A SOPHOMORE (2019 AT YALE)

  • Named to Tewaaraton Award Watch List
  • IL Media All-America
  • USILA Warrior & New Balance All-America second team
  • First-Team All-Ivy
  • Ivy All-Tourney
  • 3.18 USILA Tm of Week
  • First-team All-New England
  • Yale’s Christian Prince Memorial Award for best defensive player

AS A FRESHMAN (2018 AT YALE)

  • Unanimous First-Team All-Ivy League
  • First Team NEILA All-New England Team
  • Ivy League Rookie of the Year
  • IL All-American
  • Second Team USILA All-America
  • ALL-ECAC Second Team
  • NCAA Championship Weekend All-Tournament Team
  • USILA Team of the Week member on 4.24.18 after helping Yale beat No. 2 Albany 14-6. He limited Danes” top 2 scorers to a combined 1 assist.

PREP & PERSONAL

  • Under Armour All-American and USA Today All-American in 2017
  • First-Team All-League, First-Team All-State, and team MVP in 2017
  • Captain of the 2016 and 2017 teams
  • All-American, USA Today preseason All-American and the Huns Male Student-Athlete Award Winner in 2016
  • First-Team All-League and First-Team All-State honors in 2016
  • Won the league championships in 2015 and 2016
  • State champions in 2015
  • Four-year varsity starter
  • New Jersey Sophomore of the Year, received All-American honors, and made All-Inter AC Tournament Team in 2015
  • Fake is the son of Kim and Jim Fake
  • Dad, Jim, played football at Albany and rugby at SUNY Buffalo
  • Cum Laude Society
  • National Honor Society
  • All-MAPL Academic Team
  • Played for the football team for three years
  • First-Team All-League honors in football as a junior and senior
  • Team defensive MVP as a senior
  • Won the league championships three straight times while only losing one game
  • Captain in football senior year
  • Chemical Engineering Major at Yale who is also in the Energy Studies Program
  • Volunteered at Marty’s Place, an old dog sanctuary where older dogs, who won’t get adopted and don’t have a family, go to live out the rest of their lives