FOREST, Va. - The Washington and Lee University second-ranked women's lacrosse team collected 12 postseason awards from the Old Dominion Athletic Conference as announced by the league office on Wednesday. Rookie Head Coach Maddie Coleman was voted by her peers as the ODAC Coach of the Year and players Eugenie Rovegno (Duxbury, Mass. / Duxbury) and Allie Schwab (Bryn Mawr, Pa. / Harriton) collected major awards with a Defensive Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year nod, respectively. 

Hanna Bishop (Bronxville, N.Y. / Bronxville), Jenny Lisovicz (Glen Ridge, N.J. / Glen Ridge), Shannon Timoney (Mendham, N.J. / West Morris Mendham), Sam Van Belle (Lebanon, N.J. / North Hunterdon), and Caroline Kranich (State College, Pa. / Mercersburg) all joined Rovegno and Schwab with a first team selection while Walker McKnight (Nashville, Tenn. / Harpeth Hall) and Caroline Wise (Charlotte, N.C. / Myers Park) were voted second team. Timoney and Wise are both first time honorees. 

In her first year at the helm of the Generals' women's lacrosse team, Coleman led W&L to the ODAC's top seed for the tournament, an ODAC Championship, a 18-1 overall record and the team is the second-ranked team in the country as NCAA postseason play begins on Saturday, May 13. The 2023 ODAC Champions are sitting atop the conference in clearing, draw controls per game, save percentage, scoring defense, scoring margin, scoring offense, shots on goal per game and turnovers per game and are top-10 in the division in clearing, scoring defense, scoring margin and turnovers per game. Coming off the program's 23rd conference title, W&L also owns the fourth-best winning percentage in DIII. 

Coleman is joined by Schwab and Rovegno who also earned major awards from the conference. 

One of the most balanced attackers in W&L history, Allie Schwab became just the second player in the program to register more than 100 career goals and 100 career assists to average 3.63 points per game. The senior has tallied 33 goals and 25 helpers for 58 points through 19 games this season and added 16 groundballs, eight caused turnovers and three draw controls. Schwab was named a preseason All-American and was named ODAC Offensive Player of the week on two occasions this season. 

Now a three-time First Team All-ODAC honoree, the Offensive Player of the Year accolade is the first ODAC major award on Schwab's lacrosse resume. The co-captain has been named IWLCA All-Region and All-America after her sophomore and junior campaigns and was named W&L's First-Year Women's Sport Athlete of the Year after competing in just six contests before the CoVID-19 pandemic halted the rookie's lacrosse season.  

Junior defender, Eugenie Rovegno, picked up her second straight ODAC Defensive Player of the Year accolade after another outstanding year on defense. Rovegno has collected a team-best 46 groundballs and 33 caused turnovers. The Defensive Player of the Year's impact stretches into the midfield with 83 draw controls and transition; the Generals achieve successful clears into the offensive end on 91.5 percent of attempts. The junior also dished out a pair of assists during two fast-break opportunities. Rovegno, who has only turned the ball over on seven occasions through 19 games, earned two player of the week honors. The awards came from the IWLCA and one from the conference during the week of February 27, when the Duxbury, Mass. native totaled 16 draw controls and five turnovers against Christopher Newport and Salisbury.
 

ON ATTACK

The Blue and White offense is as balanced as it could be with five players who have registered 30 or more points thus far. Junior attacker Hanna Bishop has racked up 58 goals and 16 assists for a team-high 74 points; she was named ODAC Offensive Player of the Week on April 10. Walker McKnight rounds out the team's top-5 in the points category with 32 goals and four assists. McKnight, a second team nod, is shooting an impressive 76.2% this year and 95.2% of her takes land on target. 

Bishop has register four game-winning goals with McKnight responsible for scoring three more. Along with Schwab, the three have caused 26 turnovers for the opponents during transition defense and 56 groundballs. 

Bishop has marched up the program's leaderboard in career goal and point totals through her junior campaign. The attacker is tied for 6th place in career points (200), one point shy of the fifth-most points in a single season, fourth in career goals (160) and is already in the top-five for the second-straight year in single season goals (58) with, at minimum, one more game to be played.

McKnight was named IWLCA DIII Co-Offensive Player of the Week and ODAC Offensive Player of the Week after she registered five goals in the upset over Tufts on March 18. This marks the junior's second All-ODAC selection, she was named third team as a sophomore. 

IN THE MIDFIELD

Senior Jenny Lisovicz has established herself as one of the most impressive and complete midfielders in the league and collected her third All-ODAC Honor on Wednesday. The senior has 23 goals and 15 assists for 38 points on her stat line and is 4-for-8 from the free position hashes. As a sophomore and junior, the middie was named to the Second and First Team, respectively, and was tabbed All-Region after the 2022 season.

Additionally,  Lisovicz scooped up 26 groundballs and caused 27 turnovers with eight draw controls, four of which came in the ODAC Championship. The senior cracked into the program's Top-10 list with the tenth-most caused turnovers in a Generals' career with 76 total CTs in 61 games played. 

To round out the midfield selections, junior Shannon Timoney blossomed in the 2023 offensive scheme with 36 goals and three assists for 39 points to go along with 28 groundballs. Timoney converts her shooting attempts into goals 59 percent of the time (36-of-61) and has scored a pair of game-winners and player-up goals. The first-time All-ODAC honoree has totaled 23 caused turnovers and has a strong presence on the draw circle with 61 draw controls. Timoney was named ODAC Offensive Player of the week after stand-out performances against CNU and Salisbury in the same week. 

ON DEFENSE

One of the top defenses in the nation, W&L garnered four all-conference selections in senior defenders Sam Van Belle and Caroline Wise along with juniors Rovegno and goalkeeper Caroline Kranich. The defensive unit as a whole is atop the conference in save percentage (.500), scoring defense (5.79 goals per game), scoring margin (10.16 goal differential) and clearing percentage (0.915) while causing 11 turnovers per game. 

Van Belle, who was selected to the second team last year, was named as a first team honoree this year. The co-captain was named ODAC Defensive Player of the Week once; she forced opponents into turnovers on 27 occasions and collected 32 groundballs. Kranich joined Van Belle and Rovegno with first team nods. Kranich led the league in win percentage (0.947), goals-against average (6.74) and save percentage (0.492).

Kranich, who was named to the third team last year, has picked up four weekly awards over the course of this season; she was named IWLCA DIII Defensive Player of the week, USA Lacrosse Magazine Player of the Week, and ODAC Defensive Player of the Week on March 20 after the Generals defeated Tufts. Kranich also claimed the ODAC weekly honor on February 20. Against Tufts, Kranich recorded a career-best 13 saves. 

To round out the defensive All-ODAC selections, Caroline Wise took on a starting role this season as she played and started all 19 contests for W&L to earn her first conference honor. The senior collected 24 groundballs and caused 16 turnovers. The Generals have caused a total of 209 turnovers and limited opponents to a clearing percentage of .738 (234-317); in the 25 woman-up opportunities W&L opponents had, Wise and the defense only conceded seven woman-up goals. 
 

2023 All-ODAC Women's Lacrosse Awards

ODAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Allie Schwab, Sr., D, Washington and Lee
ODAC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Eugenie Rovegno, Jr., D, Washington and Lee
ODAC COACH OF THE YEAR: Maddie Coleman
ODAC ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Lilly Fowler, Fy., A, Randolph-Macon
ODAC/VAFB SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Lilly Blair, Sr., A, Roanoke

ALL-ODAC FIRST TEAM

Rianna Lowery    So.    A    Randolph-Macon
Lilly Blair    Sr.    A    Roanoke
Libby Bowman    Jr.    A    Roanoke
Emma Stiffer    Sr.    A    Shenandoah
Hanna Bishop    Jr.    A    Washington and Lee
Allie Schwab    Sr.    A    Washington and Lee
Alla Daniel    Sr.    M    Lynchburg
Taylor Mittelstadter    So.    M    Randolph-Macon
Sophia Chickering    Jr.    M    Roanoke
Madison Re    Sr.    M    Shenandoah
Jenny Lisovicz    Sr.    M    Washington and Lee
Shannon Timoney    Jr.    M    Washington and Lee
Italia Carnazza    Sr.    D    Randolph-Macon
Natalie Mason    Jr.    D    Roanoke
Addison Schmidt    Sr.    D    Roanoke
Julianna Fohner    So.    D    Shenandoah
Eugenie Rovegno    Jr.    D    Washington and Lee
Sam Van Belle    Sr.    D    Washington and Lee
Caroline Kranich    Jr.    GK    Washington and Lee
 

ALL-ODAC SECOND TEAM

Elizabeth Peasley    Gr.    A    Averett
Lauren Roberts    Jr.    A    Bridgewater
Sydney Dumas    Fy.    A    Lynchburg
Annie Bartley    Jr.    A    Randolph-Macon
Grace Koutouzis    So.    A    Roanoke
Ainsley Buckner    Jr.    A    Shenandoah
Reilly Cisar    Sr.    A    Shenandoah
Walker McKnight    Jr.    A    Washington and Lee
Faith Bowlin    So.    M    Averett
Kaity Petersheim    Jr.    M    Bridgewater
Payton Saville    Jr.    M    Lynchburg
Sydney Harrison    So.    M    Roanoke
Emily Lerch    Jr.    M    Shenandoah
Makaila Veney    So.    D    Ferrum
Meredith Bornholdt    So.    D    Lynchburg
Taylor Daugherty    Fy.    D    Lynchburg
Agata Gullace    So.    D    Shenandoah
Caroline Wise    Sr.    D    Washington and Lee
Patricia Rogers    So.    GK    Lynchburg
Ashley MacFarlane    Sr.    GK    Shenandoah