Preseason Second Team All-America pick ... voted team captain along with Ned Crotty and Brad Ross ... enters senior season having won 216-of-383 (.564) career face-offs ... ACC Academic Honor Roll selection.

2008: Played in 19 games and excelled as Duke’s lead face-off specialist ... led the ACC and ranked seventh nationally in face-off percentage (.593) after winning 120-of-295 draws ... ranked third in the ACC and 32nd in the country in ground balls per game (4.32) ... received ACC Player of the Week honors after winning 14-of-19 (.737) face-offs and picking up 10 ground balls in Duke’s 15-7 victory over Maryland (3/1) ... won 14-of-17 (.824) restarts with 12 ground balls against Dartmouth (3/29) ... had one goal and one assist along with a 10-of-15 (.667) showing at the X in Duke’s regular season win over Johns Hopkins (4/3) ... finished the year with three goals and four assists and a total of 82 ground balls ... named to the Academic All-ACC team for the second straight season.

2007: Saw action in all 20 games ... totaled eight points on seven goals and one assist ... scored a career-high two goals against both Denver (2/25) and Cornell (3/20) ... won 36-of-79 (.456) face-offs on the year ... best day came against Denver (2/25) with 11 wins in 12 attempts (.917) ... named to the ACC All-Academic Team.

2006: Played in four games ... won five-of-nine (.556) face-offs while picking up five ground balls.
Prep: Four-year letterman at the Brunswick School ... helped team to four-year record of 46-11 and four consecutive conference championships ... had 71 goals and 39 assists during prep career ... also played football, serving as team captain during final season ... helped football team to a pair of New England Class B titles in 2003 and 2004.

Personal: Son of Lincoln and Joanne Payton ... born April 29, 1987.