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Alex Wharton |
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HONORS & AWARDS
All-Great Western Lacrosse
League Second Team (2007)
A two-time monogram winner ... had a breakout
senior season which resulted in him earning secondteam
all-GWLL honors ... played in 43 career games
with 27 starts ... totaled 75 points on 31 goals and 44
assists ... 26 ground balls.
AS A SENIOR: Recorded a career-best season
during his senior campaign ... earned all-GWLL second-
team accolades ... registered career-best numbers
in goals (21), assists (32) and total points (53) ... also
had a career-best 10 ground balls ... led the Irish in
assists and total points ... had two game-winning
goals and was second on the team with six man-up
tallies ... started and notched a point in all 17 games
... collected a goal and an assist in a 7-6 season-opening
victory at #17 Loyola ... dished out a career-high
four assists to go along with one goal in the home
opener, a 15-9 win over Penn State ... had an assist in
a 7-6 besting of Albany ... registered two goals and
two assists in a 16-6 triumph over Villanova ...
matched a career-high with two ground balls against
the Wildcats ... had a goal in an 8-6 setback at #4
North Carolina ... notched a single-game career-high
six points on two goals and four assists in a 19-7 victory
over Dartmouth ... earned his first-ever GWLL
player of the week honor for his effort against the Big
Green ... recorded the second hat trick of his career
in a 13-6 win over #11 Drexel ... also notched an
assist against the Dragons ... followed that up with
another four-point effort with a goal and three assists
in a 19-7 win over Bellarmine in the GWLL opener
... saw his career-best five-game goal streak come to
an end in a 9-8 loss to #19 Denver ... however, he
extended his point streak with an assist against the
Pioneers ... scored two goals and had two assists in
the following game, a 16-6 win over Quinnipiac ...
produced another four-point performance on one
goal and three assists in a 14-7 besting of Lehigh ...
netted two goals and assisted on another in a 13-5
win at Air Force ... scored a goal and racked up four
assists in a 17-12 win over #9 Ohio State to give the
Irish a share of the GWLL regular-season title ... had
an assist in a 10-6 win over Quinnipiac in the semifinals
of the GWLL tournament ... helped Notre
Dame to the GWLL tournament crown with a goal
and an assist in a 9-2 victory over #10 Ohio State in
the league final ... came up with a goal and an assist
in a thrilling 8-7 overtime victory against #10
Colgate in the first round of the NCAA
Championship ... notched four points on two goals
and two assists in an 11-9 setback to #3 Syracuse in
the NCAA quarterfinals.
AS A JUNIOR: Played in 14 games, making eight
starts ... tallied then career bests in points (18), goals
(8) and assists (10) ... picked up a career-high seven
ground balls ... attempted 18 shots ... whistled for
one penalty, totaling one minute ... tallied a goal and
an assist in an 11-8 win at Penn State ... picked up an
assist in an 11-8 setback at #15 North Carolina ...
also notched an assist in a 16-5 triumph at #19
Drexel ... dished out two assists in a 7-6 loss at
Dartmouth ... totaled a goal and an assist in an 11-3
win at Brown ... had two assists in a 15-5 triumph of
Villanova ... notched his first hat trick in a 16-4
league win over Air Force ... also collected an assist
against the Falcons to give him a career-best four
points ... followed that up with two goals in a 14-6
victory over Denver ... two ground balls against the
Pioneers ... upped his point streak to five games with
a goal and an assist against Lehigh, a 14-2 win ... the
only game he missed all season was a 12-6 win at #20
Ohio State ... earned his first monogram.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Played in seven games,
including two starts ... missed time due to an injury
... picked up four ground balls and attempted five
shots ... made his first collegiate start in the seasonopener
against #14 Penn State ... the Irish topped the
Nittany Lions 8-4 ... also started in a 9-6 setback to
#8 Cornell ... took a career-high two shots against
both Penn State and Bellarmine.
AS A FRESHMAN: Played in five games, notching
two goals and two assists ... scored goals on his
only two shots of the season ... picked up five
groundballs ... made collegiate debut in season
opener at #21 Penn State, where he collected one
ground ball ... assisted on a goal and picked up a
ground ball in a 22-6 win over Butler ... notched a
goal, an assist and a season-high two ground balls in
a 12-11 loss to #20 Fairfield ... tallied a goal in the
season finale, a 16-5 victory at Ohio State.
PREP AND PERSONAL DATA: Two-sport
standout at the Gilman School ... lettered three years
in lacrosse and football ... as a senior in lacrosse, he
garnered all-city and all-conference honors ... was
also team MVP along with being team captain that
season ... team was nationally ranked his final three
seasons ... totaled 75 goals and 100 assists during his
scholastic career ... all-conference quarterback as a
senior ... football squad went undefeated and
achieved a No. 14 national ranking his junior year ...
team won back-to-back conference titles during his
sophomore and junior seasons ... Top 205 Camp All-
Star and won a recreational state title with the
Cockeysville Lacrosse Club ... attended same high
school as teammate Dave Caperna and former
Fighting Irish football players Victor Abiamiri and
Ambrose Wooden ... son of Amanda and Michael
Wharton ... has one younger sibling ... father ran
track at the University of Virginia ... born July 3,
1985, in Annapolis, Md. ... graduated from the
College of Arts in May of 2008 with a degree in political
science ... finished with a 3.500 cumulative GPA.
WHARTON'S CAREER STATISTICS
| Year | GP/GS | G | A | Pts. | GB | Shots | Sh Pct. | P/Min | UpG | GWG |
| 2005 | 5/0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1.000 | 0-0:00 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 7/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | .000 | 0-0:00 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 14/8 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 18 | .444 | 1-1:00 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 17/17 | 21 | 32 | 53 | 10 | 49 | .429 | 0-0:00 | 6 | 2 |
| Totals | 43/27 | 31 | 44 | 75 | 26 | 74 | .419 | 1-1:00 | 6 | 4 |
