University of Delaware Athletics
Delaware Places Three on Preseason All-CAA Team; Blue Hens No. 6 in Coaches Poll
1/20/2015 3:42:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse
RICHMOND, Va. -- Led by first team selection Conor Peaks, the University of Delaware men's lacrosse squad placed three standouts on the preseason All-Colonial Athletic Association team announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Peaks, a junior goalkeeper from Ponte Vedra, Fla. (Ponte Vedra HS), earned first team honors while senior midfielder Brian Kormondy (below left/Highland Ranch, Colo./Mullen) and senior faceoff specialist Tyler Barbarich (Martinsville, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) were selected to the honorable mention squad. The teams were selected from a vote of the league head coaches.
Delaware, which advanced to the CAA Tournament semifinals a year ago, was also picked No. 6 in 
the preseason coaches poll.
Peaks, who shared preseason All-CAA honors with Hofstra's Chris Selva, is projected as a third-year starter in the nets for the Blue Hens following an outstanding sophomore campaign in 2014 when he started all 16 games and posted a 9.04 goals against average and .542 save percentage. He ranked No. 2 in the CAA and No. 19 in the NCAA last season in save percentage and was No. 3 in the CAA
and No. 15 in the NCAA in goals against average.
He posted 10 or more saves 12 times with a season-high 16 in the win over Villanova. He earned CAA All-Rookie honors as a freshman in 2013.
Kormondy, a 2015 team co-captain along with defender Matt Matsko (Dover, Del./Caesar Rodney HS), earned first team All-CAA honors a year ago when he started all 16 games at midfield and tallied 17 goals and 13 assists.
Delaware's top returning scorer, he had four multiple-goal game efforts a year ago and has tallied 33 goals and 21 assists for his career.
Barbarich (at right), a preseason Inside Lacrosse honorable mention All-American, earned second team All-CAA honors a year ago when he was one of the nation's top faceoff specialists.
He led the CAA and ranked No. 4 in the nation at the NCAA Division I level with a 63.7 percent winning percentage and ranked No. 3 in the CAA and No. 25 nationally with 5.93 groundballs per game. He ranks No. 3 all-time at Delaware with a 58.7 percent faceoff winning mark.
Hofstra junior attackman Sam Llinares was selected as the CAA Preseason Player of the Year and was one of a league-high five members of the Pride selected to the team.
