Seven College of Wooster women's lacrosse Fighting Scots were named All-North Coast Athletic Conference, while Elizabeth Ford and Katie Shideler were named NCAC Coaching Staff of the Year on Friday. Senior Kenzie Morris and junior Brynne Snaguski were named first-team All-NCAC, seniors Kaitlyn McBride and Lexi Sarne were second-team selections, and juniors Lizzie Hardy, Sophia Mellis, and Sidney O'Rourke were all third-team honorees.
Morris, Wooster's 18th four-time All-NCAC selection, scored 41 goals this year before a season-ending injury. It marked her fourth time scoring over 40 goals as a Scot. She is set to graduate with 187 goals, third-most in program history, trailing just the 212 netted by Meg Wood (1992-95) and the 200 scored by Ellie Hudson-Heck (2013-16). Morris became the first player in program history to log 200 career points and 200 career draw controls. Her 235 points are the fourth-most all-time, trailing Beth Hemminger (300, 2000-03), Hudson-Heck (250), and Wood (241). Morris' 236 draw controls are the fourth-most. She added a career-high 22 caused turnovers, a career-high 34 groundballs, and a career-high 20 assists to the 2025 stat line. Morris scored six goals at Lake Forest University. In conference play, the senior had three goals and two assists in a key win over Ohio Wesleyan University.
Snaguski, who earned an elevation to the all-conference first-team after debuting as a third-team selection last spring, is Wooster's leading scorer entering the NCAA Div. III Championship at 42 goals. The junior has passed out six assists for a total of 48 points, with the points ranking third on Wooster's team. Snaguski has seven games this spring with at least three goals, led by four at Baldwin Wallace University, Widener University, and Lake Forest. She had six points at Baldwin Wallace with two assists to go with the four goals.
McBride, a first-time all-conference honoree, is second on the team with 52 points. The senior's 39 goals are a career-high and she has added 27 groundballs, 21 caused turnovers, 14 draw controls, and 13 assists to the stat sheet entering the NCAA Div. III Championship. McBride led Wooster with five goals against Denison University in the regular-season finale. She followed that up with two goals and two assists in Wooster's NCAC Tournament semifinal win over DePauw University. McBride netted four goals against Washington & Jefferson College, Widener, and DePauw during the regular season. Defensively, she cleaned up a career-high six groundballs against Washington & Jefferson.
Sarne, now a two-time All-NCAC selection, ranks third in the NCAC entering the Div. III Championship with 31 caused turnovers. The senior leads the team in caused turnovers and has really come on late, logging eight of the caused turnovers during the NCAC Tournament. Earlier, Sarne caused three turnovers in a 17-16 win over Neumann University and also cleaned up four groundballs in that game. She has 30 groundballs on the year.
Hardy, a two-time all-conference selection, ranks second in the NCAC with 110 draw controls through games played May 8. She has been an all-around contributor, ranking among the team leaders in goals (33), points (42), groundballs (51), and caused turnovers (22). Hardy's draw controls, goals, points, and groundballs are all career-bests, while she is two caused turnovers shy of matching her career-high entering the NCAA Div. III Championship. Hardy is third all-time in program history with 270 draw controls, trailing just Hannah Shaw (304, 2020-23) and Megan Healey (275, 2016-19). Hardy is the first in program history to have at least 200 draw controls before the end of her junior year. She has seven games with at least seven draw controls this spring, led by a high of 10 in a 14-8 win at Kenyon College. Hardy added nine draw controls against Otterbein University. Offensively, she has a trio of hat tricks.
Mellis is a first-time all-conference selection. She is one of five Scots with at least 30 goals on the season. She has five assists to go with the 34 scores and has 20 groundballs and six caused turnovers on the year. Mellis netted six goals at Oberlin College and had five against DePauw in the semifinal of the NCAC Tournament. She added three goals at Kenyon to round out NCAC contests with at least a hat trick.
O'Rourke's play off the draw earned the junior a second all-conference award. The junior has 81 draw controls entering the NCAA Div. III Championship, good for a tie for seventh in single-season program history. O'Rourke's surpassed 80 draw controls for the second time, something only accomplished by Hardy and Healey. On defense, O'Rourke has 23 caused turnovers and 46 groundballs. O'Rourke opened the year with nine draw controls at Baldwin Wallace and won eight in a win at Illinois Wesleyan University. She had seven groundballs and two caused turnovers against Kalamazoo College. Elsewhere, O'Rourke had six groundballs and four draw controls in Wooster's NCAC win at Kenyon.
This is Ford's fourth time earning the NCAC's coaching award. The conference recently enhanced the award to include all members of the coaching staff to better reflect the impact the entire staff has on the program. Thus far, Ford and Shideler have led Wooster to a 16-3 record and a spot in the NCAA Div. III Championship for the first time since 2010. Should Wooster win its first-round game against Hope College, the program will win a NCAA tournament game for the first time in program history and establish a new single-season wins record at 17.
Wooster takes on Hope this afternoon at 3 p.m. at John P. Papp Stadium with the winner playing the University of Chicago in the NCAC's second round at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 10.
