2023 Graduate Year
First Team All-MAAC selection … Preseason All-MAAC selection … MAAC All-Academic Team member … Started all 15 games … Scored his first career goal … Collected 26 ground balls … Caused 15 turnovers … Picked up a groundball in 13 of 15 games … Had seven games of at least two groundballs … Caused a pair of turnovers on four occasions …Recorded one groundball and two caused turnovers in the MAAC Semifinal against Siena (May 4) …

2022 Senior Year
MAAC All-Academic Team member … Second Team All-MAAC selection … Started all 15 games on defense … Collected 28 ground balls and caused 14 turnovers … Four games of three ground balls, including the final three of the season … Three games of multiple caused turnovers …

2021 Junior Year
Key member of one of the top defenses in the Division I ranks … Ranked ninth nationally with a MAAC-best 2.1 ground balls per game … Notched 21 forced turnovers and 20 ground balls … Started all 10 games … Had three ground balls and three forced turnovers in MAAC Championship against Monmouth (5/8) … Also had three ground balls in MAAC Semifinal victory vs. Canisius (5/5) … Registered five caused turnovers with a ground ball against Monmouth (3/6) … Notched three ground balls and one forced turnover in win over Detroit Mercy (3/20) and at Marist (4/24) … Registered two ground balls and two forced turnovers in double-overtime victories against Siena (4/17) and Monmouth (3/26) … Also accrued two ground balls and two forced turnovers in win at Canisius (3/13) … Forced four turnovers at Quinnipiac (4/10) … MAAC All-Academic Team honoree.

2020 Sophomore Year
Notched three ground balls with a forced turnover … Played in five games … Notched ground balls in win at Wagner (2/22), at Navy (2/7) and against Bryant (2/29) … Forced a turnover in victory vs. VMI (2/15) ... MAAC All-Academic Team honoree.

2019 Freshman Year
Valuable member of the rotation as a rookie … Notched 14 ground balls … Played in 13 games … Scooped up a career-high five ground balls against Quinnipiac (4/27) … Had two ground balls in win over Hartford (3/5) and against Siena (3/16).

Scholastic/Prep
Played his prep lacrosse at Guilderland High School under the direction of Sean McConaghy … Earned three letters for the Dutchmen … Garnered Second Team Suburban Council and Times Union Second Team honors as a senior in 2018 … Also registered Suburban Council Honorable Mention accolades as a junior in 2017 ... Cited as a News Channel 13 High School Athlete of the Week … Selected to the 2017 UnderArmour Uncommitted Team … Played club lacrosse for Albany Power for Mike Vorgang … Has volunteered as a youth lacrosse coach and the Make-A-Wish foundation … Born on September 14, 1999 … Son of Tim and Lisa Clifford … Has a brother John … Is majoring in biology at Manhattan, with aspirations of becoming orthopedic surgeon.