2026 Women's Lacrosse League season

The 2026 Women's Lacrosse League season will be the second season for the Women's Lacrosse League (WLL). Four teams competed in the WLL's 2026 tournaments: the Boston Guard, California Palms, Maryland Charm, and New York Charging.^[1]

On January 14, 2026, The Women’s Lacrosse League (WLL) announced the schedule for its inaugural season. The WLL’s first-ever Opening Weekend will be held May 15-17, 2026 at Rhode Island’s Centreville Bank Stadium. The inaugural WLL Championship will take place Aug. 14-16 at Philadelphia’s Subaru Park.^[2]

The WLL 2026 season will feature the league’s original teams competing in the 10-versus-10 game format successfully debuted at its 2025 WLL All-Star Game. Each team will make their home debuts in their team’s market. Three neutral markets – Rhode Island, Chicago, and Fairfield, Conn. – will also host WLL games.

Ahead of the 2026 season, all four teams will compete in the 2026 Championship Series across two weekends from February 27 to March 8 at The St. James in Springfield, Virginia. Teams will compete alongside the top four teams from the 2025 PLL season in the Olympic Sixes game format, set to return lacrosse to the Olympics at the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games.

• Head coach – Laurie DeLuca
• Assistant coach – Tracey Sullivan

2026 Boston Guard
#	Name	Nationality	Position	Shot	Height	College	Grad year	High school	Hometown	Ref.
1	Rachel Hall		Goalie	Right	5 ft 5 in	Boston College	2013	Cypress Woods	Cypress, Texas	[3]
3	Kasey Choma		Midfield	Right	5 ft 5 in	Notre Dame	2024	Eastport-South Manor	Manorville, New York	[4]
7	Fallon Vaughn		Midfield	Right	5 ft 6 in	Yale	2025	Concord-Carlisle	Concord, Massachusetts	[5]
8	Charlotte North (C)		Attack	Right	5 ft 7 in	Boston College	2022	Episcopal School of Dallas	Dallas, Texas	[6]
10	Madison Ahern		Midfield	Right	5 ft 8 in	Notre Dame	2024	Notre Dame Academy	Cohasset, Massachusetts	[7]
12	Cassidy Weeks		Midfield	Right	5 ft 5 in	Boston College	2024	Bayport-Blue Point	Bayport, New York	[8]
13	Maddie Burns		Defense	Left	5 ft 10 in	Michigan	2025	Germantown Academy	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	[9]
18	Dempsey Arsenault		Midfield	Right	5 ft 8 in	Boston College	2019	New Hampton School	New Hampton, New Hampshire	[10]
19	Brittany Read		Goalie	Right	5 ft 7 in	Oregon	2018	Eastern Regional	Gibbsboro, New Jersey	[11]
20	Courtney Taylor		Defense	Left	5 ft 6 in	Boston College	2022	CB South	Chalfont, Pennsylvania	[12]
22	Hannah Dorney		Midfield	Left	5 ft 6 in	Notre Dame	2023	Comsewogue	Port Jefferson Station, New York	[13]
23	Jackie Wolak		Attack	Right	5 ft 6 in	Notre Dame	2024	Ridgewood	Kinnelon, New Jersey	[14]
31	Andie Aldave		Attack	Right	5 ft 6 in	North Carolina	2022	The McDonogh	Baltimore, Maryland	[15]

(C) indicates captain

• Source:^[16]

• Head coach – Maddy Buss
• Assistant coach – Ginny Capicchioni

2026 California Palms
#	Name	Nationality	Position	Shot	Height	College	Grad year	High school	Hometown	Ref.
1	Emily Nalls		Defense	Right	5 ft 7 in	North Carolina	2024	Glenelg	Glenwood, Maryland	[17]
3	Sam Geiersbach		Attack	Left	5 ft 7 in	North Carolina	2022	West Babylon	West Babylon, New York	[18]
6	Erin Bakes		Midfield	Left	5 ft 6 in	USC	2023	Ransom Everglades	Miami, Florida	[19]
11	Caroline Steele		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	Maryland	2019	Severn	Severna Park, Maryland	[20]
12	Ally Mastroianni (C)		Midfield	Right	5 ft 9 in	North Carolina	2022	Bridgewater-Raritan	Martinsville, New Jersey	[21]
13	Sammy Jo Adelsberger		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	North Carolina	2017	Fox Lane	Bedford, New York	[22]
14	Jill Smith		Attack	Right	5 ft 8 in	Michigan	2025	Mercy	Farmington Hills, Michigan	[23]
15	Caitlyn Wurzburger		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	North Carolina	2024	American Heritage Boca-Delray	Delray Beach, Florida	[24]
16	Ellie Masera		Midfield	Right	5 ft 3 in	Stony Brook Seawolves	2025	Eastport-South Manor	Eastport, New York	[25]
18	Anna Brandt		Midfield	Right	5 ft 7 in	Penn	2025	Hereford	White Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland	[26]
24	Gabby Rozenzweig		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	Duke	2020	Somers	Somers, New York	[27]
30	Taylor Moreno		Goalie	Right	5 ft 7 in	North Carolina	2022	Huntington	Huntington, New York	[28]
44	Kait Devir		Goalie	Left	5 ft 5 in	USC	2024	Ridgewood	Ridgewood, New Jersey	[29]
45	Kayla Wood		Defense	Right	5 ft 7 in	North Carolina	2021	Catonsville	Baltimore, Maryland	[30]

(C) indicates captain

• Source:^[31]

• Head coach – Emily Parros
• Assistant coach –

2026 Maryland Charm
#	Name	Nationality	Position	Shot	Height	College	Grad year	High school	Hometown	Ref.
1	Abby Bosco		Defense	Right	5 ft 3 in	Maryland	2023	Suffern	Suffern, New York	[32]
3	Sam Swart		Midfield	Right	5 ft 5 in	Syracuse	2021	Archbishop Carroll	Coopersburg, Pennsylvania	[33]
5	Aurora Cordingley		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	Maryland	2022	The Hill Academy	Oakville, Ontario	[34]
10	Alex Aust Holman (C)		Attack	Right	5 ft 9 in	Maryland	2013	Bullis	Sterling, Virginia	[35]
11	Sydni Black		Attack	Right	5 ft 3 in	Loyola	2020	The Summit Country Day	Cincinnati, Ohio	[36]
12	Olivia Dirks		Midfield	Right	5 ft 7 in	North Carolina	2024	Episcopal Academy	Wayne, Pennsylvania	[37]
18	Ashley Humphrey		Attack	Right	5 ft 6 in	North Carolina	2025	Darien	Darien, Connecticut	[38]
22	Grace Griffin		Midfield	Left	5 ft 8 in	Maryland	2022	Liberty	Sykesville, Maryland	[39]
29	Megan Douty		Defense	Right	5 ft 6 in	Maryland	2015	Rumson-Fair Haven Regional	Fair Haven, New Jersey	[40]
30	Ally Kennedy		Midfield	Right	5 ft 3 in	Stony Brook	2025	North Babylon	North Babylon, New York	[41]
31	Paulina DiFatta		Goalie	Right	5 ft 7 in	Pitt	2022	Half Hollow Hills West	Dix Hills, New York	[42]
34	McKenzie Blake		Attack	Right	5 ft 9 in	Princeton	2025	Haddonfield	Haddonfield, New Jersey	[43]
43	Caylee Waters		Goalie	Right	5 ft 6 in	North Carolina	2017	Darien	Darien, Connecticut	[44]
55	Kelly Denes		Midfield	Right	5 ft 10 in	Notre Dame	2024	Cardinal Newman	Jupiter, Florida	[45]

(C) indicates captain

• Source:^[46]

• Head coach – Colleen Magarity
• Assistant coach – Molly Wolf

2026 New York Charging
#	Name	Nationality	Position	Shot	Height	College	Grad year	High school	Hometown	Ref.
1	Lauren Gilbert		Midfield	Right	5 ft 6 in	Northwestern	2022	Lake Oswego	Lake Oswego, Oregon	[47]
2	Erin Coykendall		Attack	Right	5 ft 5 in	Northwestern	2024	Spencerport	Spencerport, New York	[48]
4	Emma Tyrrell		Attack	Right	5 ft 4 in	Syracuse	2024	Mount Sinai	Mount Sinai, New York	[49]
5	Chase Boyle		Midfield	Right	5 ft 10 in	Loyola	2025	Rumson-Fair Haven Regional	Rumson, New Jersey	[50]
7	Jillian Wilson		Midfield	Right	5 ft 8 in	Loyola	2020	Gerstell Academy	Hampstead, Maryland	[51]
12	Katie Goodale		Defense	Right	5 ft 5 in	Syracuse	2024	Riverhead	Riverhead, New York	[52]
19	Sam Smith		Midfield	Left	5 ft 7 in	Northwestern	2025	Tamalpais	Mill Valley, California	[53]
22	Meg Carney		Attack	Right	5 ft 5 in	Syracuse	2023	John Paul II	McKinney, Texas	[54]
24	Kendall Halpern		Defense	Right	5 ft 8 in	Northwestern	2024	Syosset	Syosset, New York	[55]
27	Izzy Scane (C)		Attack	Right	5 ft 8 in	Northwestern	2024	Cranbrook Kingswood	Clarkston, Michigan	[56]
32	Molly Laliberty		Goalie	Left	5 ft 4 in	Northwestern	2024	Newburyport	Newburyport, Massachusetts	[57]
36	Grace Fujinaga		Midfield	Right	5 ft 5 in	Northwestern	2025	The Overlake School	Mercer Island, Washington	[58]
45	Emerson Bohlig		Midfield	Right	5 ft 5 in	Northwestern	2025	Miramonte High School	Orinda, California	[59]
51	Emily Hawryschuk		Midfield	Right	5 ft 8 in	Syracuse	2022	Victor	Victor, New York	[60]
66	Madison Doucette		Goalie	Right	5 ft 6 in	Northwestern	2024	Unionville	West Chester, Pennsylvania	[61]

(C) indicates captain

• Source:^[62]

The second tournament, the 2026 WLL Championship Series (sponsor name Maybelline Championship Series), took place on February 27 to March 8, 2026 alongside the 2026 PLL Championship Series at The St. James in Springfield, Virginia – marketed as Washington, D.C.. ^[63]

Each team played a single round robin, after which the top performing team advanced to the Championship game, while the second- and third-best teams played-off for the other spot in the Championship. ^[64]

All times in Eastern Time (ET)