Courtesy of Navy Athletic Communications

GREENWOOD, Ind. – Zach Hayashi from Navy's men's lacrosse program was selected as a Second Team Academic All-American in the at-large category, when the College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced the honors on Wednesday. 

The at-large sports category for male student-athletes includes fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

Zach Hayashi | Men's Lacrosse | Junior
A first-time CSC Academic All-American, Hayashi owns a 3.91 grade-point average in cyber operations, ranks 15th in his class (1,078 students) in overall order of merit which includes academic (86th) and military (4th) performance. He has been named to both the Academy's Superintendent's and Commandant's Lists five times. Hayashi was named the 2026 Patriot League Men's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Navy's first since Colin Finnegan earned the award in 2007. 
 
One of the winningest faceoff specialists in program history, he has won 384 of the 686 draws (56.0) he's taken in three years. While he is one of just four players in Navy history to win at least 300 faceoffs, his 384 victories trail only record holder Brady Dove who amassed 637 faceoff wins from 2014-17. Hayashi was named the 2024 Patriot League and ECAC Rookie of the Year after becoming the only player in school history to win over 200 faceoffs in a season, posting 214 and breaking the previous school record by 29.
 
This past spring, Hayashi and Colin Shadowens combined to win 216 of 391 (55.2) draws for the Mids. Navy, along with Penn State, were the only two schools in the country to have two players with 100-plus wins this season. Meanwhile, it was the first time in Navy history it has churned out two 100-win draw specialists in the same season.
 
Hayashi has also etched his name among Navy's best in ground balls, sitting among the top five. Grabbing 194 ground balls over his career, he needs just six more to become only the fifth player in school history to reach 200. He needs 29 more to take sole possession of second place, while he trails Dove, the Mids' record holder, by 154.
 
Hayashi is just the fifth different Navy men's lacrosse player to earn Academic All-America honors, joining Tom Calabrese (third team / 1983-84), Clipper Lennon (second team / 2004-05), Joe Lennon (third team / 2009-10) and Christian Daniel (third team / 2019-20; second team / 2020-21).

In June, 12 Navy student-athletes – Isabella Baldwin (rifle), Paige Burke (women's rowing), Vivian Cressman (women's golf), Maggie DeFabio (women's lacrosse), Orion Erwin (men's water polo), Zyan Hall (wrestling), Hayashi (men's lacrosse), Laura Fern Jones (women's rowing), Jalin Jenkins (women's lacrosse), Petros (gymnastics), Thurlow Lam (gymnastics) and Ryan Wee (rifle) – were named recipients of CSC Academic All-District honors with Baldwin, Hayashi, Petros and Thurlow Lam being selected for All-American consideration.

To be eligible for the district and later the national ballot, student-athletes must have attained a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or better and reached their sophomore year academically and athletically. Additionally, the student-athlete must have participated in 90 percent of its respective sport's contests that season or have started in at least 66 percent of those contests.