Four Seniors Earn IWLCA All-Northeast Region Honors for 2019

HANOVER, N.H. – Four members of the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team earned All-Northeast Region honors as announced by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA).

Seniors Elizabeth Mastrio, Kierra Sweeney and Kathryn Giroux all earned IWLCA All-Northeast Region First Team honors, while classmate Kellen D'Alleva was tabbed as a member of the second team.

The four selections are the most for the Big Green since 2012, while the three first-team honorees is the most since 2011.

Giroux graduates as the Ivy League's best player ever on the draw control, posting 418 for her career. That figure is in large part to her single-season conference record of 160 this year, making her the only player in Ivy history with three seasons of 100 or more draw controls. To put into perspective how much distance Giroux put between her and any other Dartmouth player on draw controls, the previous career record was 155, a figure the New Jersey native passed with just this season's total.

A unanimous All-Ivy League First Team selection this season, Giroux — the team captain — was one of the top players in the midfield in the nation as her 9.41 draws per game ranked third of any Division I player. An Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honoree during the course of the season, Giroux also tied her career high for goals (11) and points (15).

Mastrio was the emotional leader of the team and served as an assistant captain. In her final season, she turned up her production to new heights, posting career highs in goals (41), assists (20) and points (61). Thanks to that stellar senior season, Mastrio will leave Dartmouth ranked in the top-15 in points (15th, 152), goals (14th, 110), assists (13th, 42) and draw controls (9th, 102). She is one of only three players in program history with 100 career goals and draw controls.

No stranger to accolades, Mastrio was a First-Team All-Ivy League player in addition to being named to the Ivy All-Tournament team and this latest honor comes on the heels of a 61-point season that ranks as the 18th-best in program history.

Sweeney was the driving force behind the offense as her 73 points in 2019 are tied for the second most by any Big Green player in a single season in nearly five decades of competition. Her 58 goals as a senior rank as the fifth-best total by a Dartmouth player and were the most by an Ivy League player at the time of the team's final game of the season.

Another of the conference first teamers to earn a spot on the top regional team, Sweeney had her best year in a Dartmouth uniform by far this spring. Coming into 2019, Sweeney had established a career high last spring with 46 points, meaning that had she not dished out a single assist this year, her goal total alone would have set a new personal points mark by a dozen. In the team's seven Ivy League games, Sweeney led the way for Dartmouth with 24 goals with eight coming from the 8-meter arc.

Making it onto the second team was D'Alleva, perhaps the biggest surprise of the quartet based purely on statistics coming into the season. D'Alleva had just 21 points entering her senior season with a career-high 13 coming as a junior in 2018. The Long Island native more than tripled that career point total in 2019 with 69 points in her final season wearing the green and white.

A large number of that point total came from 46 assists, setting the program's new single-season standard and eclipsing the old mark of 39 achieved in 1998. D'Alleva would also score a career-high 23 times in 2019, finishing with the seventh-best single-season point total in Dartmouth history.

Of the 16 players to earn first-team recognition in the Northeast, six were from Boston College, five were from Syracuse, three from Dartmouth with BU and UMass earning the other two spots.

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