University of Massachusets Athletics
2023-24 Football Signees

Lake Ellis
- Position:
- Defensive Back
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 180
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Orlando, Fla.
- High School:
- First Academy
- Prev School:
- Bryant
2024 Graduate Student
- Saw action in twelve games for the Minutemen
- Accumulated 29 tackles (16 solo, 13 assisted), three tackles for loss, and five pass break ups
Before Massachusetts
• Spent four years at Bryant, tallying 130 tackles (98 solo, 32 assisted), 1.5 tackles for loss, six interceptions and 19 pass breakups
• Posted a career-high seven tackles twice in 2023 and once in 2021
• Had a career-best one TFL at Robert Morris in 2022
• Tallied three interceptions during the 2023 season
• Named NEC Defensive Player of the Week in 2021
• Attended The First Academy (Orlando, Florida)
• Was a regional finalist as a senior
• Helped the team to back-to-back district championships
• Named to the First Team All-State
• Landed on the First Team All-Area list
• District Player of the Year honoree as a senior
• Chosen as one of the Orlando Sentinel’s Top 60 seniors in 2019
• Participated in the Blue/Grey All-American Game
• FACA North/South All-Star Game participant
• Selected to the First Team All-Area at defensive back and First Team All-District at defensive back and wide receiver as a junior
• Four-year member of the track and field team and three-year member of the basketball team
• Was a District Champion in triple jump and State Champion in 4x100 relay