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On Monday, Inside Lacrosse named eight Syracuse players to All-American teams. The Orange tied No. 1 North Carolina for the most selections out of any school in the country.

Attacker Meaghan Tyrrell and defender Sarah Cooper both earned spots on the first team. Draw control specialist Kate Mashewske earned second team honors. Meanwhile, Emily Hawryschuk, Sam Swart, Megan Carney, Emma Tyrrell and Katie Goodale were all named Honorable Mention All-Americans.

While earning spots on the honorable mention team, Emma and Carney were both out for significant stretches of time. Emma was ruled out for the remainder of the season on April 8 and Carney suffered consistent lower body issues throughout the year.

But when they played, they were some of SU’s best offensive players. At the time of her injury, Emma had the third most points on the team and had only one game where she didn’t record two or more points. She was Syracuse’s leading goal-scorer in close wins against ranked opponents like then-No. 17 Notre Dame and then-No. 6 Loyola.

Carney did the same too, especially during the beginning and middle of the season. In the Orange’s first top-10 win of the year, the Texas native led the team with seven points in a 12-11 win over then-No. 4 Stony Brook. In a two-goal win over then-No. 7 Duke, Carney tied a team-best with five goals. Even as her production slowed down in the postseason (two points in three games), she still finished with the fourth-most points and tied for the third-most goals on SU.

With crucial offensive pieces out for long stretches of the season, the Orange relied on Meaghan and Hawryschuk. Hawryschuk broke Kayla Treanor’s record for most goals in program history after scoring 261st career goal against UAlbany.

But it was the older Tyrrell who led the Orange in scoring with a team-best 78 goals and 111 points. Meaghan scored five points in 14 games and recorded 16 hat tricks. She scored a hat trick in all four of the Orange’s postseason games. Meaghan is one of the five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award.

Cooper was named as one of 25 nominees for the award, leading a Syracuse backline that saw much turnover from 2021 into 2022. Among the starters in last year’s National Championship defeat to Boston College, Cooper was the only one that played for the Orange this season. She had the second-most caused turnovers and fourth-most ground balls on the Orange this year. Goodale shined as well, leading SU with 28 caused turnovers.

Cooper was a key contributor in the draw circle, too, finishing with the third-most draw controls. She stood on the defensive side of the circle, while Emma stood on the offensive side. But it was the draw specialist that dominated.

Mashewske struggled early in the season, falling short against specialists like Duke’s Maddie Jenner (the first team draw specialist). Following a three-game road trip over spring break, she recorded double-digit draw controls seven times. This included tying a single-game program record when Mashewske won in the circle 19 times against Louisville.

Published on May 23, 2022 at 3:16 pm

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