No Catamounts team had ever reached a national championship game before Monday. In the first, Max Kissel completed a tournament run that included victories over four seeded teams and multiple late-game comebacks.

Thanks to Maximilian Kissel, the Catamounts got it done on Monday night. Kissell drilled a perfect goal in the extra period to lift Vermont to a 2-1 win over Marshall to officially win the 2024 Men’s College Cup and claim the program’s first ever national championship.

And, of course, it was a stunning, well-earned result for Vermont program and its followers. Zach Barrett and his backline teammate Max Murray decided to come back for one more season, to fulfill a five-year goal of winning an NCAA title. The Catamounts had close calls with 2022's quarterfinal run and last year's Round of 16 exit.