Four Women's Lacrosse Student-Athletes Selected to GNAC All-Conference Teams
WINTHROP, Mass. – After finishing with its most wins in a single season since 2014 with an 8-7 record, the Rivier women's lacrosse team had four student-athletes earn postseason honors with selections onto the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) All-Conference Teams.
Junior defender Cassie Hemmerdinger made the Second Team while classmate Sarah Lachance was placed on the Third Team as an attack. First-year attacker Sofia Cebrero was an All-Rookie Team selection while senior attacker Kayla Gauthier was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team.
Hemmerdinger recorded a career-best 46 caused turnovers while scooping up 58 ground balls in 2024, good for seventh most in the GNAC. She also tacked on eight points coming from three goals and five assists. She also helped Rivier establish possession by nabbing 55 draw controls. Through two years as a Raider, Hemmerdinger has compiled 127 ground balls, 124 draw controls, 90 caused turnovers, and 31 points through 28 games played, starting in each contest.
In a career year for Lachance in which she eclipsed the 200 points mark, she started in all 15 of Rivier's contests, scoring 60 goals, good for third-most in the conference. After tacking on 27 assists, her 87 points slated her fifth in the GNAC scoring ranks. Lachance finished on 17 of her 30 free-position attempts. She finished second on the squad in draw controls with 53 while her 32 ground ball pickups slotted her in third.
As a first-year, Cebrero was a major addition to the offense as she started in all 15 of Rivier's contests at the attack position and finished fourth on the team with 39 points on 32 goals and seven assists. She also recorded 16 ground balls, 11 caused turnovers, and three draw controls.
Gauthier's selection to the All-Sportsmanship Team caps off her four-year career in Nashua on a high note after the senior suffered a season-ending with just over a week left in the campaign.
The Raiders will lose five seniors to graduation this Sunday, May 12 but look to build off this season's successes with 12 returners in 2025.
