Player Bio: Nils Mattsson - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Nils Mattsson

	Class: Junior
	Hometown: Spring House, Pa.
	High School: The Lawrenceville School

Dawson on Mattsson -- "Nils has all the tools to play No. 1 for Navy and win. He has great strokes and excellent movement in the court. He trained in Europe again this summer and is ready to play."

2007-08 -- Just missed the 20-win mark with his 18-9 record in his second season ... split his time between No. 1 and 2, seeing a great deal of action at No. 1 during the month of January ... won 12 of his first 13 matches which featured wins over No. 61 Greg Hutner of Western Ontario (3-0), No. 70 Tony Maruca of Williams (3-0) and No. 71 Adam King of Dartmouth (3-10) ... his lone loss early on was a 3-2 decision to 38th-ranked Mark Froot of Penn ... struggled late in the year ... won one of the three matches at the CSA Team Championship ... knocked off Bowdoin's Palmer Higgins, 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 ... won his first two matches of the CSA Individual Championship held in Annapolis ... defeated Alex Salton of Haverford, 9-4, 9-5, 9-2 and Princeton's Peter Sophoer, 9-0, 9-1, 9-6 before bowing out to Rochester's Frederick Reid and Bates' Kush Mahan in three games each.

2006-07 -- Became the first Navy player to win the Molloy division of the College Squash Association Individual Championship by defeating teammate Jeff Sawin in five games ... was trailing 2-0 when he stole away game third, 9-2, and went on to win the match with 10-8 and 9-1 wins in the fourth and five games ... capped of a freshman campaign that saw him finish with a 25-9 record ... primarily played the No. 2 spot on the ladder, but saw action in eight matches as Navy's No. 1 player ... opened his career by winning his first seven matches, all three-game sweeps ... suffered his first loss to 18th-ranked Andrew Boumford from Dartmouth ... earned a 3-1 win over Williams' Tony Maruca who was ranked 58th ... won two of his three CSA Team Championship matches ... opened up with a 3-1 win over Brown's Edward Cerullo who was ranked 51st and defeated Cornell's Rohit Gupta in three games ... ended the season on a six-match winning streak ... turned in a 5-0 record which featured wins over Navy Sawin and Alastair Smith to win the Molloy title ... his final ranking heading into the individual championship was No. 58, but finished the year 33rd after winning the Molloy crown.

High School -- A 2006 graduate of The Lawrenceville School, the same institution that produced Navy junior Jeff Sawin, Mattson was a three-sport standout ... he earned four letters in squash, three in soccer and two in lacrosse ... member of the 2004, `05, and `06 squash teams that were crowned National Champions ... served as team captain his senior season.

Personal -- Full name is Nils Henrik Mattson ... son of Christer Mattsson and Deborah Leppencott ... born Feb. 28, 1988, in London, England ... speaks Swedish ... majoring in Comparative Politics ... has twice been named to the Commandant's List ... stands 172nd in military order of merit among his class of 1,115 members.

Career Record: 43-18
`06-07: 25-9 | `07-08: 18-9