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2026 Shippensburg University Lacrosse

The Shippensburg University lacrosse team opens its 2026 season Wednesday with a nonconference home game against Wheeling.

Shippensburg returns 16 players from last year’s team and adds 12 newcomers. From an eligibility standpoint, the roster includes one graduate student, five seniors, six juniors, six sophomores and 10 freshmen.

The Raiders posted an 8-9 record in 2025, doubling their win total for the second consecutive season. The team improved its win total by four games last year and recorded eight victories, its most in 11 years. Shippensburg had a five-game win streak, its longest since April 2004, and finished with a positive goal differential for the first time since 2012, scoring 207 goals and allowing 202.

Shippensburg opens with Wheeling before traveling to Georgian Court on Feb. 21 and hosting Jefferson on Feb. 28. The Raiders then play at Lock Haven to begin March and conclude nonconference play March 7 at Frostburg State. PSAC play begins March 11 at home against Bloomsburg.

Coaching Staff

Head coach Brooke DellaValle is in her third season. She was named the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division Coach of the Year, becoming the third coach in program history to receive the honor, joining Bertie Landes (2006) and Deb Tweed (1995).

Stacy Needle is in her second season as assistant coach.

Returning Honors and Leaders

Two returning players earned All-PSAC recognition in 2025:

  • Grace DeMarzio, All-PSAC First Team defender, ranked sixth in the PSAC with 51 groundballs. She is tied for seventh in school history with 135 career draw controls and ranks ninth with 60 career caused turnovers.
  • Ali Pioli, All-PSAC Second Team midfielder, recorded 27 assists last season, eighth most in a single season in program history. She ranks third in school history with 191 career draw controls.

Maddie Phommachanh returns as the team’s top goal scorer after totaling 36 goals last season.

Position Breakdown

Goalkeepers (2): Leah Cramer, Izzy Sawicki

Defenders (4): Shawn Coombs, Grace DeMarzio, Bri Koehler, Emily Lapinsky

Midfielders (10): Jill Ahlgren, Aubrey Bailey, Allie Dunn, Brynn Hauck, Jordan Markey, Avery Meeks, Maddie Phommachanh, Ali Pioli, Juliana Primrose, Hanna Woolf

Forwards (12): Alexa Bailey, Natalie Burton, Ava Collins, Sydney Fowler, Olivia Glinski, Ryleigh Hooper, Lexi Koz, Caroline Marengo, Erin Reedy, Grace Schaffner, Abby Schwartz-Mitchell, Shannon Wood

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