MAAC Announces 40th Anniversary Women’s Lacrosse Team
Edison, N.J. (Aug 11, 2020) – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th Anniversary throughout the 2020-21 academic year, continuing its mission to provide student-athletes the opportunity to succeed in both academics and athletics.
The 40th Anniversary Women’s Lacrosse Team highlights some of the best student-athletes in MAAC history. MAAC Women’s Lacrosse traces back to 1997, with the first ever postseason tournament taking place in the spring of 2000. The 2000 season saw Manhattan College capture the first MAAC Championship with an 11-8 win over Niagara University. Since, Canisius College leads the conference with six championships overall, followed by Fairfield University with five championships and Le Moyne College, a former MAAC member, with four. The MAAC Women’s Lacrosse Championship is set to return April 30th through May 2nd in 2021, with games hosted by the league’s top overall seed.
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Canisius College
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Whitney (Card) Buchli
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2005-2008
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Erica Evans
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2015-18
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Kristy Grossmn
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2005-08
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Jordan Roemer
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2016-19
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Tory Quinn – 2012-15
A four-year letterwinner who played in 76 games as a Golden Griffin, Tory Quinn holds the honor of being the first three-time MAAC Offensive Player of the Year during her career from 2012-15… She scored 154 goals to go with 97 assists for 251 career points, which ranks second in school history... A two-time IWLCA All-Regional honoree, she is currently an assistant coach at Liberty.
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Coach Scott Teeter
Scott Teeter served as head coach at Canisius for 15 years from 2003-17. When taking over the Canisius women’s lacrosse program, he took the reins of a team that had won just 11 games in the program's first seven seasons. Under his guidance, he changed the culture of the program and was named MAAC Coach of the Year in just his third season after leading the Golden Griffins to an eight-win improvement in 2005. In 2011, Canisius won a school-record 14 games and capped the successful campaign with the program's first MAAC Tournament title. The Griffs added postseason championships in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. In the run from 2011-14, the team became the first school in MAAC women’s lacrosse history to win four-straight conference titles. Canisius also claimed regular-season crowns in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 after sweeping through conference foes without a loss.
He was named the league's coach of the year again in 2015, 2016 and 2017, after becoming the first three teams in MAAC history to post a perfect 8-0 regular-season record. He left Canisius as the winningest women’s lacrosse coach in MAAC history. He is currently the head coach of the women’s lacrosse program at Louisville.
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Fairfield University
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Megan Beach
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2016-19
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Alex Fehmel
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2014-17
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Beth Loffredo
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2003-06
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Chelsey Sidaras
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2013-16
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Kristen Coleman – 2008-11
Kristen Coleman is Fairfield's all-time leading scorer with 257 points despite just three active seasons with the Stags. She also holds the top two spots on the single-season list with 90 points in 2008 and 88 in 2009. Coleman's 186 career goals also top Fairfield's all-time list, as do her 68 markers in the 2008 campaign. She was 2008 MAAC Rookie and Offensive Player of the Year, then repeated as Offensive Player of the Year in 2009. Coleman was also an IWLCA All-Region Second Team and All-MAAC First Team honoree in all three of her active seasons
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Coach Mike Waldvogel
Mike Waldvogel was the head coach of the Stags from 2009-15. A three-time MAAC Coach of the Year, Waldvogel won MAAC Championships in 2009 and 2015. He won the MAAC regular season on five occasions, including four perfect trips through the regular season, boasting a 92-35 (.724) overall record and 42-4 (.913) record in the MAAC regular season. Waldvogel posted an overall win percentage over .700 in six of his seven seasons and was later on staff as an assistant for both the 2018 and 2019 MAAC Championship seasons.
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Iona College
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Gabriella Di Domizio
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2014-18
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Christie Godlewski
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2005-09
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Mary Kate McCormick
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2012-16
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Erin Pugh
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2013-17
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Jaclyn O’Leary – 2004-08
Jaclyn O’Leary was part of Iona’s inaugural 2005 women’s lacrosse team and started off the program with a bang. She became the first player in team history with 200 points and 100 goals in her career. To this day, she is Iona’s all-time leader in career points (225), career goals (188), goals per game average (2.89), shots per game (6.58), points per game (3.46), shots on goal (326), shots (428), shots on goal per game (5.02), ground balls (209), ground balls per game (3.22) and draw controls (176). O’Leary was the first ever women’s lacrosse player inducted into the Iona College Goal Club Hall of Fame in 2017. She was a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference NCAA Woman of the Year in 2008. O’Leary was a four-year All-MAAC Performer and a staple on the MAAC All-Academic Team. At the time of her induction into the Maroon & Gold hall of fame, she was top-10 in four MAAC statistical categories: goals, goals per game, draw controls per game and ground balls per game.
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Manhattan College
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Mary Dudek
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2002-05
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Chrissy Gutenberger
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2009-12
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Emma Kaishian
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2016-19
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Alicia Psillos
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2005-08
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Lori Graham – 1997-00
Lori Graham more than made her presence in the MAAC. Despite playing just one year in the MAAC, she earned MAAC All-Tournament team honors as Manhattan won the first-ever Women's Lacrosse Championship. A three-year captain, she ranks first in program history with 196 career goals and 261 career points. She also has four of the top offensive seasons in school history, highlighted by a school-record 56 goals as a freshman in 1997.
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Marist College
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Lindsey Diener
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2005-08
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Allison Gionta
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2013-16
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Hailey Wagner
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2016-19
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Abby Witczak
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2014-17
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Samantha Mehalick – 2017-Present
Samantha Mehalick is the only player in program and conference history to reach the 200-career goal milestone, and she will be back for another year in 2021. Other accolades for Mehalick include being named MAAC Offensive Player of the Week five times, and MAAC Rookie of the Week twice back in 2017. She progressed from the MAAC All-Rookie Team, to the All-MAAC second team in her sophomore campaign, and then was named to the All-MAAC First team in 2019. The senior captain also holds the program (and conference) record for goals in a single game, scoring 11 against Manhattan on April 27, 2019. Her 79 goals in 2019 also set a record for most goals scored in a single season, and she led the nation in free position goals per game.
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Coach Jessica Wilkinson
Jessica Wilkinson is the longest-tenured (10 seasons) and winningest (80 career victories) coach in Marist women's lacrosse history. Wilkinson has led the Red Foxes to two MAAC regular-season championships (2014, 2018). The 2014 team went 14-4, and set a single-season program record for wins. Wilkinson has amassed a .606 winning percentage (40-26) in conference play. She is a three-time MAAC Coach of the Year (2013, 2014, 2018) who has coached four MAAC major award winners and two NCAA statistical champions (Hailey Wagner, draw controls per game; Samantha Mehalick, free position goals per game).
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Monmouth University
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Nicole Ceraso
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2017-20
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Caroline Corbliss
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2015-18
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Rachel Mills
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2019-20
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Kristina Vangeli
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2013-16
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Marial Pierce – 2013-16
Marial Pierce earned All-MAAC First Team honors in back to back seasons, including her senior year when she finished top-four in the conference in four different statistical categories. Pierce finished her career ranked top-10 in points and assists while her 181 draw controls currently ranks third all-time.
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Niagara University
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Caroline Crump
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2016-19
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Mary Cutia
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1997-00
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Sandra Gallegos
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2000-03
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Kara Grooms
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1998-01
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Rachel MacCheyne – 2016-19
MacCheyne is the program's all-time leader and ranks third in MAAC history in goals (187). She also holds the team career records for points (237) and draw controls (316), as well as each of the top three single-season records for goals and points, and two of the top three single-season records for draw controls. MacCheyne became Niagara's first-ever representative in the IWLCA DI Senior All-Star Game in 2019. As a junior in 2018, she was named to the IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region Second Team, another program first. MacCheyne is a three-time All-MAAC First Team Attack selection as well as a three-time MAAC All-Academic Team honoree.
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Quinnipiac University
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Kelly Babstock
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2014-15
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Katie DeVito
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2014-16
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Kiera Kelly
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2015-18
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Kyra Ochwat
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2014-15
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Allison Kuhn – 2016-19
Allison Kuhn scored 123 goals in her career and added 47 assists over her Quinnipiac career. Kuhn eclipsed the century mark in draw controls, finishing her career with 106. She was a part of the 2016 MAAC All-Rookie Team and a three-time MAAC All-Academic Team member.
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Siena College
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Kerry Gerety
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2018-Present
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Sammy Horton
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2016-19
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Lindsey Rosecrans
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2006-09
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Julia Sirianni
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2013-15
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Caitlin Mikel – 2008-11
The program's all-time points (180) and assists (64) leader, Mikel is currently tied for the 10th most goals scored in MAAC history (116). A 2010 First Team All-MAAC selection, she also earned a Second Team nod in 2011 and led the team to a pair of MAAC Semifinal appearances.
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Former MAAC Members
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Amanda Keegan (Le Moyne)
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2004-07
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Brandy Payne (Le Moyne)
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2000-03
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Jen Stocker (Mount St. Mary’s)
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1996-99
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About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th year of competition during the 2020-21 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.