PRINCETON, N.J. — After a thrilling Ivy League women’s lacrosse regular season, which saw the last berth in the Ivy League Tournament get clinched on the final day of competition, the conference has announced the All-Ivy teams and major award winners.
Jami MacDonald was voted the Attacker of the Year, making it the second-straight season, and third in the last five years, that a Princeton student-athlete has taken home the league’s top attacker award. The senior led the Ivy League in goals scored during conference play with 22 in seven games. She ranked second in points, one behind teammate
Haven Dora, adding 10 assists to her 22 goals for 32 points. MacDonald had at least one goal and multiple points in every game this season and matched her career-high with 10 points in a win over Towson.
Harvard’s do-it-all midfielder,
Charlotte Hodgson, was named the Midfielder of the Year, the first time a Crimson player has earned the honor. Hodgson was the league’s top goal scorer for the entirety of the regular season, netting 45, and ranked fourth in league play with 18. She impacted the game outside of just scoring, with her all-around skill showing up in the box score for Harvard. Hodgson had 32 draw controls, 22 ground balls, and 11 caused turnovers to go with her 61 points. She had a point in all 15 games this season and tied the Harvard single-game record with nine goals in a win over UConn in the second-to-last game of the regular season.
In another Ivy League first, a Yale Bulldog was named the Defender of the Year.
Emmy Pascal earned the honor as the centerpiece of one of the best defenses in the country. A Tewaaraton Award nominee, Pascal was second in the Ivy League with 30 caused turnovers and tied for fourth with 35 ground balls, while captaining a Yale defense that ranked third nationally by allowing 7.27 goals per game.
The last two Ivy League Goaltenders of the Year shared the honor this year as 2025 winner
Orly Sedransk of Penn and 2024 winner
Amelia Hughes of Princeton were named Co-Goaltenders of the Year. The duo ranked 1-2 in saves and save percentage during league play, with Sedransk ranking second with 73 saves and first with a 0.537 save percentage and Hughes posting a league-leading 75 saves while ranking second with a 0.507 save percentage. For the season, Hughes ranked sixth nationally with 163 saves and Sedransk is tied for 19
th with 139.
Sedransk had double-digit saves in eight games, with a season-high 17 coming in a 14-10 win over Dartmouth. She also had a strong close to the season, allowing fewer than 10 goals in six of her last seven games. Hughes opened the season with 11 straight double-digit save games, adding one more, a 14-save outing in a win at Brown, before the end of the season to give her 12 on the year.
Yale’s
Kate Gould was named the Rookie of the Year after closing her first-year campaign with 60 points on 34 goals and 26 assists. She was just as consistent in Ivy League play, ranking fifth with 27 points on 14 goals and 13 assists. Gould is already one of the best in draw controls in the league, securing 31 in seven league games and 66 overall, both totals ranking fourth in the Ivy League. She had a point in every game of her rookie season with Gould tallying a season-high nine points coming in a win over Boston University and later scoring a season-high six goals in a win over UConn.
Earning Coaching Staff of the Year honors were the Yale Bulldogs. Led by head coach
Erica Bamford, who also won the 2024 Ivy League Coach of the Year, the Bulldogs won the regular season title, their second outright title in the last three years and fourth overall championship. The Bulldogs coaching staff orchestrated a defensive scheme that ranks them third nationally while their scoring margin of 5.60 goals per game ranks 16
th. Yale ranks 16
th in the latest coaches poll and has two wins over ranked opponents on the season, posting road wins over then-No. 5 Michigan and then-No. 19 Princeton.
Princeton led all Ivy League members with four First Team All-Ivy recipients, led by MacDonald, who was one of four unanimous selections. She was joined by Hughes, defender
Dylan Allen, and attacker
Haven Dora. Yale, Penn, and Cornell each had two First Team All-Ivy honorees. The Bulldogs featured Pascal, a unanimous selection, and Gould, Sedransk was joined by
Catherine Berkery for Penn’s two first-teamers, and Cornell saw two of the three Tully sisters, Caitlin and Lexie, named All-Ivy First Team. Rounding out the expanded First Team were unanimous selections Hodgson of Harvard and Brown’s
Ruby Sliwkowski, as well as Dartmouth’s
Maya Kendall.
Additionally, one student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the field as members of the 2026 Ivy League Women's Lacrosse Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s
Kiki Tormey, Columbia's
Serena Hong, Cornell’s
Caitlin Tully, Dartmouth's
Maya Kendall, Harvard’s
Hannah Shiels, Penn's
Patricia Columbia-Walsh, Princeton’s
Lane Calkins and Yale's
Ashley Newman were each named to the team.
ATTACKER OF THE YEAR
Jami MacDonald, Princeton
MIDFIELDER OF THE YEAR
Charlotte Hodgson, Harvard
DEFENDER OF THE YEAR
Emmy Pascal, Yale
CO-GOALTENDER OF THE YEAR
Orly Sedransk, Penn
CO-GOALTENDER OF THE YEAR
Amelia Hughes, Princeton
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Kate Gould, Yale
COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Yale
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Ruby Sliwkowski, Brown*
Charlotte Hodgson, Harvard*
Jami MacDonald, Princeton*
Emmy Pascal, Yale*
Caitlin Tully, Cornell
Lexie Tully, Cornell
Maya Kendall, Dartmouth
Catherine Berkery, Penn
Orly Sedransk, Penn
Dylan Allen, Princeton
Haven Dora, Princeton
Amelia Hughes, Princeton
Kate Gould, Yale
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Riley Peterson, Brown
Anna Becker, Columbia
Cordelia Flemming, Columbia
Ellie Bergin, Cornell
Madeline Egan, Dartmouth
Mia Puccio, Dartmouth
Patricia Columbia-Walsh, Penn
Lela Greene, Penn
Natasha Yajadda, Penn
Abigail Roberts, Princeton
Katie Clare, Yale
Niamh Pfaff, Yale
HONORABLE MENTION
Tessie Batchelder, Brown
Codi Johnson, Brown
Cece Korn, Brown
Ella Wilmot, Cornell
Callie Batchelder, Harvard
Despina Giannakopoulos, Harvard
Maggie Bankowski, Penn
Maggie Molnar, Princeton
Meg Morrisroe, Princeton
Ashley Kiernan, Yale
* Unanimous selection
^ Team expanded due to ties in voting