New Jersey City University Athletics

Honors and Awards:
- First Team All-Skyline (2025)
- All-NJAC Honorable Mention Team (2025)
- Second Team All-Skyline (2024)
- CSC Academic All-District (2024)
- NJCU Male Rising Knight Award (2023-24)
- NJAC Rookie of the Week (2/6/23, 3/6/23)
- Skyline Weekly Honor Roll (2/7/23, 3/7/23)
- NJAC All-Academic Second Team (2024-25)
- Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC (2023-24)
- Skyline Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024)

2024: Appeared in 30 of 33 matches as a sophomore, making 30 starts as the team's primary setter ... led NJCU in total assists (756) and assists per set (9.00), which ranked 31st in all of Division III and third in both the Skyline and NJAC ... dished out 20-plus assists in 21 matches ... also had 36 kills, 15 aces, 111 digs (1.32 per set) and was third in total blocks (37.0) and blocks/set (0.44/set) ... finished with 32 assists, nine digs, three blocks, one ace and a kill in the four-set win over Kean (1/24) ... had 46 assists, seven digs and four kills in the five-set loss to Drew (2/2) ... added 33 assists, two kills and a season-high 10 digs in the loss to Misericordia (2/2) ... notched 36 assists, seven digs, a career-high six blocks and a kill in the first-ever win over Rutgers-Newark (2/21) in program history ... dished out a career-best 57 assists to go with two kills, seven digs and two blocks in the massive five-set win at St. Joe's-LI (3/13) ... finished with 40 assists, two digs, two blocks and an ace in the four-set Skyline Championship loss at St. Joe's-LI (4/2).

2023: Appeared in 16 matches as a rookie, making 13 starts at setter ... led the team in assists/set (7.30), was second in assists (321) and fourth in aces (18) ... double-digits assists (17) for the first time in the four-set win over Bard (1/26) ... 26 assists, six digs and three blocks in the 3-0 win over Kean (2/4) ... 22 assists, eight digs and a season-best five blocks against St. Joe's0LI (3/5) ... 25 assists, five digs, a block and a season-best eight aces in the 3-0 win over Yeshiva (3/14) ... double-double with 31 assists and a season-best 11 digs in the three-set win over CMSV (3/25) ... season-best 36 assists in the five-set ECAC Championship victory over PSU-Behrend (4/22).

High School: A 2022 graduate of Bayonne High School ... four-year volleyball team member ... captain as a senior ... First Team All-State and First Team All-County as a senior ... Second Team All-County as a junior ... Student Movement Against Cancer Club ... also played on Garden State Elite (club) as a senior.

Personal: Son of Jodi and Peter Casais ... has two siblings, Karly and Nicholas ... pursuing a career as a firefighter ... grandfather Jose "Pepe" Casais, a 1975 graduate of NJCU, played soccer and is a NJCU Athletics Hall of Famer from the class of 1984 ... was the first NJCU player to be selected in a professional soccer draft, selected in the fourth round by the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the NASL and in the seventh round by the Rhode Island Oceaneers of the ASL ... life goal is to be sponsored by Welch's Fruit Snacks ... Dean's List (Fall '24, Spring '25).