Women's Lacrosse | 3/23/2026 4:00:00 PM
Week 5 PAC Honors (for events between March 16-22)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 5 of the 2026 season.
PAC Offensive Player of the Week
Taylor Blythe • Grove City • Junior attack • Mendon, N.Y./Honeoye Falls-Lima
Blythe fired in four goals and added five assists Saturday in Grove City's 16-11 victory at conference rival Washington & Jefferson … Three of her goals and one assist came in the fourth quarter, as the Wolverines outscored W&J 6-2 in the final period to pull away in the win ... Wednesday, Blythe scored a pair of goals to help Grove City roll to a 22-0 win over Geneva.
PAC Offensive Honor Roll
Chatham junior attack Natalie Ondo (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shaler); Saint Vincent senior attack Carolina Walters (Latrobe, Pa./Greater Latrobe); Thiel senior attack Hayden Wightman (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shaler); W&J senior midfielder Mya Bolinda (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills); Westminster senior attack Julia Ravazza (Twain Harte, Calif./Dublin)
PAC Defensive Player of the Week
Isabella Cespedes • Westminster • Senior defender • Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun
Cespedes totaled 10 ground balls and six caused turnovers last week for 2-0 Westminster … She finished with four ground balls and three caused turnovers in Wednesday's 11-10 win over Point Park before setting the program's all-time record in caused turnovers during Saturday's 23-0 shutout of Geneva … Cespedes finished with six ground balls and three caused turnovers against Geneva, giving her 113 CTs in 57 career games played … She added two goals, an assist and four draw controls.
PAC Defensive Honor Roll
Chatham junior goalie Meghan Cuza-Berry (Gambrills, Md./Arundel); Grove City freshman defender Gabri Hallam (Buffalo, N.Y./Clarence); Saint Vincent junior goalie Cassidy Rega (Finleyville, Pa./Seton-LaSalle); Thiel sophomore goalie Edith Lithkousky (Carthage, N.Y./Carthage Central); W&J junior defender Sammy Hartz (Ijamsville, Md./Oakdale)
PAC Midfielder of the Week
Tori Stevenson • Grove City • Junior • Butler, Pa./Butler
Stevenson helped Grove City to a 16-11 win Saturday at Washington & Jefferson by recording two goals and four assists … Three of her assists came in the second half to help the Wolverines score nine goals after halftime to clinch the win ... Wednesday against Geneva, Stevenson had a goal, six assists, three caused turnovers and six ground balls as the Wolverines whitewashed Geneva, 22-0.
PAC Midfielder Honor Roll
Chatham freshman Campbell Murphy (Saline, Mich./Saline); Thiel junior Mikayla Flock (Greensburg, Pa./Greensburg Salem); W&J senior Caleigh Bogats (Oakdale, Pa./Chartiers Valley); Westminster graduate student Felicia Young (Darlington, Pa./Blackhawk)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Bella Walski-Rodriguez • Chatham • Freshman attack • San Antonio, Texas/Antonian College Preparatory
Walski-Rodriguez scored a career-high four goals in the Cougars' lone game last week, a 22-1 win over Bethany ... Three of her goals came in the first 6:08 of the game, which helped Chatham sprint out to a 10-0 lead after one quarter ... She also topped her career high in assists (two) and points (six) while scoring four goals on just five shots ... Walski-Rodriguez also set a career high with four ground balls and tied her career high with two caused turnovers.
PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman defender Duchess Jackson (Washington, D.C./National Cathedral School); Grove City freshman midfielder Avery Anderson (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny); Hiram freshman midfielder Janelle Steiner (Cleveland Heights, Ohio/Cleveland Heights); Saint Vincent freshman midfielder MaryKatherine New (Bowie, Md./Bowie); Thiel freshman midfielder Camille Turner (Conneaut Lake, Pa./Conneaut Area); W&J freshman midfielder Bekah Meiklejohn (Boonsboro, Md./Boonsboro); Westminster freshman midfielder Kaylin Henry (Martinsburg, W.Va./Martinsburg)
PAC Records & Milestones
Allegheny's Duchess Jackson led the Gators with seven ground balls and four caused turnovers against Buffalo State ... In Chatham's 22-1 win over Bethany, Natalie Ondo recorded a career-high eight goals, the second most in program history ... Hiram's Janelle Steiner recorded the first multi-goal game of her collegiate career on Wednesday against Hilbert and matched her career high with five draw controls and then posted career highs with five ground balls and six caused turnovers Saturday at Muskingum ... Saint Vincent's Carolina Walters scored two goals, dished out four assists and scooped six ground balls, while MaryKatherine New posted four goals, four ground balls, and four draw controls in the Bearcats' 17-2 win against Thiel ... W&J's Caleigh Bogats had four goals, four assists, eight points, 15 draw controls, three ground balls and two caused turnovers in a 1-1 week, highlighted by a hat trick in a victory over Marietta ... Julia Ravazza finished Westminster's 2-0 week with 14 points on eight goals and six assists, including the game-winning score with seven seconds remaining in regulation to cap an eight-point (5g/3a) performance in the Titans' 11-10 victory over Point Park.