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05/24/22 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

Ravens linebacker Diego Fagot is among four Naval Academy athletes who have received permission from the Department of Defense to pursue professional sports, the academy announced Sunday. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III issued the approval Saturday in accordance with Directive-Type Memorandum 19-011, which was issued Nov. 8, 2019. That policy, titled "Military Service Academy Graduates Seeking to Participate in Professional Sports," allowed service academy graduates to pursue employment in professional sports immediately following graduation.

Athletes approved for the policy are allowed to graduate from their respective service academies but are not commissioned as officers. Whenever their professional careers are complete, those individuals are commissioned and must serve their mandatory military requirement of at least five years. Football player Michael McMorris, women's basketball player Jennifer Coleman and men's soccer player Matt Nocita join Fagot as the Naval Academy athletes approved to pursue professional sports. All four athletes will now enlist in either the Navy or Marine Corps' "Individual Ready Reserve" following graduation from the academy Friday. - Capital Times

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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02/28/22 - Bijan Nichols, Sr/2023, Navy + More +

2021 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): K Bijan Nichols, Navy, Jr.,...Nichols has made 14 of his 17 field goal attempts and all 26 of his PATs this fall. Of his three missed field goals, two were blocked and the third was a miss from 55 yards at Memphis. Nichols has made 103-career extra points, which is the fourth most in school history, while his 32-career field goals rank second in school annals. His 199-career points are the second most in school history for a kicker and just 23 points shy of record holder Bennett Moehring. - Navy Football

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K Bijan Nichols, Navy
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02/28/22 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

2021 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): LB Diego Fagot, Navy, Sr.,...Fagot, who was named to the first team as a sophomore and second team as a junior, leads Navy with 85 tackles and 11 tackles for a loss. Fagot's 35.5 career tackles for a loss are the sixth most in school history and just 1.5 tackles for behind fifth-place Charlie Thornton. Fagot has been invited to play in the East-West Shrine Game. - Navy Football

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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12/11/21 - Tai Lavatai, Sr/2024, Navy + More +

Quarterback Tai Lavatai ran for two touchdowns and Navy's defense limited Army to 57-second-half yards and a season-low 232 overall in a 17-13 victory Saturday in a game played at the Meadowlands to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Navy (4-8) played a complete game, outgaining Army (8-4) on the ground and overall, controlling the clock and converting three big plays, two on fourth-down, that led to all its points. The Navy defense made the big play at the end, stopping Army quarterback Christian Anderson a yard short at the Navy 46 on fourth down with 91 seconds left.

Bijan Nichols added a 43-yard field goal for Navy, which struggled against a schedule that featured 11 bowl-bound teams. Navy ends the season with a rivalry win, while Army will face Missouri in the Armed Forces Bowl. Anderson scored on a 56-yard run on Army's fourth play from scrimmage and Cole Talley added field goals of 31 and 32 yards, all in the first half. The Black Knights generated little after that in seeing their four-game winning streak snapped and losing to Navy for only the second time in six games. - Navy/AP College Football

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QB Tai Lavatai, Navy
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11/27/21 - Chance Warren, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

Isaac Ruoss ran for two touchdown, Chance Warren had two TD catches and Navy defeated Temple 38-14 on Saturday. The Midshipmen (3-8, 3-5 American Athletic Conference) threw just 12 passes for 72 yards but had touchdown tosses from both Tai Lavatai and Xavier Arline. Navy rolled up 219 yards on the ground. Navy plays Army to end its season Dec. 11. Temple’s season has ended. Tayvon Ruley and Ra’Von Bonner scored rushing touchdowns of 4 and 1 yards, respectively, for Temple (3-10, 1-7), which lost a seventh straight game. The two rushing scores ended a stretch where the Owls hadn’t scored more than 10 points in a game since Oct. 23. Redshirt freshman quarterback Mariano Valenti, a transfer from Northern Illinois, completed 10 of 14 passes for 73 yards. He led the 14-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Ruley’s TD run. - Navy/AP College Football

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RB Chance Warren, Navy
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11/02/21 - John Marshall, rSr/2024, Navy + More +

NOV 1 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE HONOR ROLL: John Marshall, Jr., LB, Navy,...Had nine tackles, a tackle for loss and a fumble recovery in a 20-17 win at Tulsa, helping limit the Golden Hurricane to 294 yards of offense. - American Athletic Conference Football

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10/29/21 - Bijan Nichols, Sr/2023, Navy + More +

Tai Lavatai scored a game-winning touchdown from the 1-yard line in the fourth quarter and Navy defeated Tulsa 20-17 on Friday night. Lavatai was 0-for-3 passing but gained a career-high 64 yards on the ground, giving him 242 rushing yards and five touchdowns in six starts. The Midshipmen gained 302 yards rushing, zero passing. The 15-play eight-minute drive in Navy's (2-6, 2-4 American Athletic Conference) come-from-behind win foiled a big night by Tulsa's Anthony Watkins, who scored the Golden Hurricanes first kickoff return for a touchdown in nearly a decade and compiled 178 yards in total offense. The win was Navy's first on the road this season and broke a three-game losing streak.

Watkins scored a 97-yard kickoff return to open the second half as Tulsa (3-5, 2-2) took a 10-3 lead. The last Golden Hurricane with a kickoff return for a TD was Trey Watts, 95-yards against Marshall on Oct. 6, 2012. Late in the first half, Zack Long kicked a 26-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead as Tulsa salvaged points from a five-play drive that began with a Watkins season-long 78-yard rush to the Navy 7-yard line. Watkins spun away from a tackler at the line of scrimmage and bolted straight downfield before he was caught. Watkins had 81 yards rushing on five carries. Bijan Nichols evened the score with a 29-yard field goal for Navy with three seconds left in the first half. - Navy/AP College Football

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K Bijan Nichols, Navy
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10/02/21 - Bijan Nichols, Sr/2023, Navy + More +

Tai Lavatai returned from a two-game injury absence to lead Navy back from a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit and a 34-30 win over UCF on Saturday for the Midshipmen's first victory this season. With Navy trailing 30-27, Diego Fabot knocked the ball out of Brandon Johnson's hands after a 20-yard reception and Taylor Robinson recovered at the Navy 47. Eleven plays and over five minutes later, Isaac Ruoss ran in from the 4-yard line to give the Midshipmen the lead with 3:09 left. UCF quickly went down the field down to the Navy 12, but Robinson, who dropped a would-be interception two plays earlier, came up with a pick in the end zone on fourth down with 24 seconds remaining.

The victory was the first for Navy (1-3, 1-1) in three meetings with the Knights (2-2, 0-1) since joining the American Athletic Conference in 2015, the final league team the Midshipmen were winless against. Bijan Nichols kicked his second field goal and Lavatai, who missed the previous two games, ran for his second touchdown of the game after Navy entered the fourth quarter trailing 30-17. Lavatai and Ruoss had 21 carries each as Navy ran for 348 yards led by 85 from Carlinos Acie. Daniel Taylor recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for a Navy TD in the first half. UCF freshman Mikey Keene, making his first start in place of the injured Dillon Gabriel, was 16-of-26 passing for 178 yards and two TDs to Johnson. - Navy/AP College Football

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K Bijan Nichols, Navy
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08/07/21 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

Navy football finished seventh in the American Athletic Conference standings last season. Apparently, media members covering the conference think the Midshipmen will fall further toward the cellar in 2021. Navy was predicted to finish in a tie for eighth place in the 11-team league in the preseason media poll that was released Wednesday morning, as the Midshipmen and East Carolina both received 85 votes. Cincinnati, which finished the 2020 season ranked No. 8 nationally, has been tabbed as the preseason favorite. "We're picked low pretty much every year. I don't worry too much about what people say," Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said during Wednesday's virtual AAC Football Media Day. "Let people pick us where they want to pick us. We'll just keep our mouths quiet and grind."

Since joining the AAC in 2015, Navy has compiled an overall conference record of 30-17. The Midshipmen captured the West Division outright in 2016 and finished in a tie for first in 2015 and 2019. Navy ranks fourth behind Memphis (34-14), Temple (31-16) and Central Florida (31-17) for most wins over the last six seasons. "I'm not worried about preseason polls; I'm just worried about our preparation, and I like where we're at right now," he said. "We'll be ready Sept. 4 when the first game comes." - Capital Times

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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06/06/21 - Cameron Kinley, Sr/2021, Navy + More +

Recent Naval Academy graduate Cameron Kinley will not be allowed to pursue professional football as the current Secretary of the Navy is not adhering to a policy put in place by the Trump administration. Kinley signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent on May 1 and has been seeking permission to play in the National Football League ever since. The United States Navy approved Kinley's request to participate in Tampa Bay's rookie-free agent minicamp late last month.

However, Secretary of the Navy Thomas W. Harker has now denied Kinley's request to delay his commission and is requiring the Naval Academy Class of 2021 president to begin serving as an ensign. Ryan Williams-Jenkins, a former Navy football player who is Kinley's agent, made the announcement on Monday. Williams-Jenkins said the Navy will not allow Kinley to appeal the decision. Denying Cameron a fair process will also deny him the dream of playing in the NFL, Williams-Jenkins said in a press release issued Monday at noon. - Capital Times

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05/20/21 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

Kevin Brennan, Mychal Cooper, Diego Fagot and Chance Warren were almost unanimous selections as captains of the Navy football team. Those four rising seniors were also unanimous when asked what it means to be voted captain by teammates. To a man, they called it the highest honor they have received to date. "It's a great honor and one of the things I'll hold onto for the rest of my life because it's not something you did, it's your teammates voting you in and that humbles me," Fagot said. "We all feel blessed to be in the position to represent the team as a whole."

Warren and Cooper were chosen as the offensive captains with Brennan and Fagot as their defensive counterparts. They were voted as captains earlier this month, shortly after Navy spring camp concluded. "I'm very excited about our captains and I'm really excited about this team. These four have really made an effort during the spring to bring the team together and that's been a big priority for them," Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said. "Also, nobody outworks these four on the field and when your best players are your hardest workers, you have a chance to be good." - Capital Times

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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05/04/21 - Cameron Kinley, Sr/2021, Navy + More +

Tears of disappointment quickly turned into tears of joy for former Navy football player Cameron Kinley on Saturday night. When the NFL Draft ended and Kinley had not been selected, he was down in the dumps. He took a walk around the block with a cousin who offered words of encouragement. After having a good cry and coming to grips with the possibility his dream of playing professional football might be over, Kinley received a series of phone calls from his agent. Ryan Williams-Jenkins, who played football at the Naval Academy and is a 2014 graduate, informed Kinley the Kansas City Chiefs were interested in signing him as a preferred free agent. Kinley was naturally elated and told Williams-Jenkins to make the deal.

Moments later, Williams-Jenkins called back to tell Kinley the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were also offering a free agent contract. "Let's go to Tampa," said Kinley, who knew a member of that team's coaching staff. Tampa Bay inside linebackers coach Mike Caldwell played football at Middle Tennessee State University with Kinley's father, Richard. "I just felt more comfortable going down there knowing someone on coaching staff," Kinley said. - Capital Times

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FS Cameron Kinley, Navy
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03/25/21 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

Diego Fagot delivered an interesting history lesson when asked to explain the origins of the Navy football team motto for the 2021 season. Fagot and other rising senior leaders settled on "Burn the Boats" as a motivational slogan to begin using during the grueling winter strength and conditioning workouts known as "fourth quarters." Navy's standout inside linebacker referenced that motto several times during an online news conference to discuss spring camp, which will now begin Friday. "We're really trying to emphasize those three words. We need to leave everything off the field and focus on what we have at hand," Fagot said. "Our class is really trying to emphasize the mentality piece because there is so much going on around us. Last season, there was just so much stuff happening off the field that it affected us on the field." - Capital Times

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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12/17/20 - Diego Fagot, Sr/2022, Navy + More +

2020 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM (COACHES): LB Diego Fagot, Navy,...Navy senior guard Peter Nestrowitz was named First-Team All-American Athletic Conference, while junior linebacker Diego Fagot was named to the second team by the league's 11 head coaches it was announced today by the conference office. This is the second straight year Fagot has garnered honors as he was named to the first team last year. Fagot started all nine games he was available for in 2020 and led the Mids with 72 tackles, 11 tackles for a loss and three sacks. - Navy Football

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ILB Diego Fagot, Navy
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12/17/20 - Peter Nestrowitz, Sr/2021, Navy + More +

2020 ALL-AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM (COACHES): OG Peter Nestrowitz, Navy,...Navy senior guard Peter Nestrowitz was named First-Team All-American Athletic Conference, while junior linebacker Diego Fagot was named to the second team by the league's 11 head coaches it was announced today by the conference office. This is the second straight year Fagot has garnered honors as he was named to the first team last year. Nestrowitz started all 10 games at right guard for the Mids this year and finished his career starting 23-consecutive games dating back to last year. - Navy Football

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