ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The #4/4 Navy women's lacrosse team (8-0) steps out of conference for a midweek contest against Arizona State (5-4) on Tuesday, March 17 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The game will be broadcast on
ESPN+ and an audio-only portion of the contest will be available via WNAV: over the radio waves on 1430 AM, online at
WNAV.com or through the iHeart and Audacy platforms. Additionally,
live stats will be provided online.
All-Time Series
The game between Navy and Arizona State will mark the first meeting between the two teams. The Midshipmen are 5-3 against current members of the Big 12, including a 14-11 victory over #7 Florida earlier this season.
The Sun Devils are the third team this season that the Mids will take on for the first time. Earlier this year, the Midshipmen defeated Delaware (W, 15-10) and South Florida (W, 19-8) in the first meetings between the programs.
Arizona State head coach Taryn VanThof Puls is no stranger to the Midshipmen. VanThof is a 2015 graduate of Loyola, having played against the Mids during her time with the Greyhounds.
Scouting the Midshipmen
The Navy women's lacrosse team improved to 8-0 on the season with a 17-6 win against Bucknell on Saturday. It was the fourth time this season (in eight total games) that the Midshipmen held an opponent to single-digit goals. In their history, the Mids are 192-3 (.985) when holding an opponent to less than 10 goals.
As a team, the Midshipmen have tallied 122 goals with 62 assists, while picking up 132 ground balls, winning 118 draw controls, and causing 63 turnovers.
Entering the week,
Alyssa Chung,
Ava Yovino, and
Taylor Miles lead the team. Chung and Yovino pace the team with 37 and 32 points, respectively, while Miles is two points back with 30. Chung has a team-high 28 goals with nine assists for her 37 points, while Yovino has 14 scores and a team-best 18 helpers for her 32 points. Miles has 18 goals with 12 assists for 30 points.
Emma Kennedy and
Mikayla Williams round out the Midshipmen's top five. The duo have 22 points apiece. Kennedy has 22 points on 18 goals and four assists, while Williams has 22 points on 17 scores and five helpers. Against Bucknell, Williams registered her fifth consecutive hat trick of the season.
Maggie DeFabio and
Anna Gotterup have 10 and eight points, respectively. DeFabio has eight goals and two assists for 10 points, while Gotterup has eight points on three goals and five assists.
Chloe Brown is two points behind with six points thanks to five goals and a helper.
Bella Paradiso, who has scored goals in four consecutive games, has five points on four goals and an assist, while
Kat McAteer also adds five points on two goals and three assists.
Caroline Gage (2g 1a), and
Rowan Kimmel (1g 1a) follow with three and two points, correspondingly.
Grace Mitchell and
Natalie O'Neill close out the scoring with one goal each.
Defensively, the Midshipmen have held their opponents to 8.25 goals per game. The Navy defense has held four opponents – Villanova (5 goals), High Point (6 goals), South Florida (8 goals), and Bucknell (6 goals) – to single-digit goals.
The Mids have caused 63 of their opponents' 109 turnovers (57.8 percent). Yovino and
Felicia Giglio lead the team with 10 and seven caused turnovers.
Jaclyn Johns is next with six, while Chung and DeFabio follow with five apiece to round out Navy's top five.
Yovino leads the team with 20 ground balls with Giglio following with 18 ground ball pickups. DeFabio has 14 with Johns following with 10. Gage has nine to round out Navy's top five in the category.
Giglio has played and started each game for Navy in the cage, working 452:45 minutes of action between the posts. The junior goalie has 59 of the Mids' 64 saves on the year with an 8.35 goals against average.
Freshman goalkeeper
Angelina Price saw her first collegiate action against Villanova, while also taking some reps against High Point, South Florida, and Bucknell. The rookie has posted five saves in just under 26 minutes of action (25:45). Sophomore
Lila Stachowski saw her first collegiate action against HPU working the final 90 seconds at goal in the Mids' 14-6 victory.
In the circle,
Maura Murphy boasts a team-high 51 draw wins. The senior notched her first double-digit draw performance against High Point, finishing with a game-high 14 draw wins. Yovino follows with 31 draws, while Kennedy adds 17 draw wins.
Scouting the Opposition
Arizona State fell to Mercer on Sunday by a final score of 20-16 despite being tied at eight going into halftime. It was a third-quarter surge by the Bears that was the difference in the game and kept ASU winless on the road this season in two contests. The season-high three-game win streak was halted, as ASU dropped to 5-4 on the year.
Jordyn Behar was selected as the Big 12 Preseason Attacker of the Year, while Anna Viglione was unanimously selected as Preseason Draw Specialist of the Year.
Senior attacker Teagan Ng brings a 29-game goal-scoring streak into the week. Senior attacker Lydia Oldknow owns a 47-game point-scoring streak dating back to the 2024 season. In 46 of those games, she's scored a goal.
ASU leads the Big 12 in assists per game (9.11), draw controls per game (19), and points per game (24.67). Behar's 34 assists lead the conference, and Ng's 33 goals are the second-best mark in the conference.
National Rankings
After spending two weeks ranked fifth, the Navy women's lacrosse team moved up to #4 in all three national polls – the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division I Coaches Poll, the Inside Lacrosse KANE Women's Division I Media Poll, and the USA Lacrosse poll. It is the highest ranking ever for the Midshipmen.
Entering the 2026 season, the Midshipmen's highest IWLCA ranking – sixth – came in the final polls of the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Navy finished the 2017 season in fourth in the final ILWomen poll after the Midshipmen's Final Four run.
Prior to claiming the #4 spot in Week 6 of the 2026 season, fifth was the highest in-season ranking in any poll for Navy.
The Midshipmen have been ranked in the top 10 according to the IWLCA 13 times, including the first weekly poll of the season (Feb. 9, 2026), which was the first time in the top 10 since the final poll of the 2018 season (ranked 6th on May 29, 2018).
Up Next
Following the game, Navy continues Patriot League play, hitting the road to take on Holy Cross on Saturday, March 21 at 12:00 p.m. in Worcester, Mass. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and live stats available throughout the game.
