Welcome back to Statwatch, our attempt at collecting statistics from all over the nation to tell stories about players, teams, and even trends.
This week, our goals and assists leaders are in playoff mode. Vanni Intini, a sophomore attacking midfielder from Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy, finishes her season tomorrow in the NCISAA Division II Tournament against The Asheville (N.C.) School. She has 152 goals this season, but there are others waiting in the weeds looking to overtake her.
In the assists category, junior attacker Lauren Hayden has amassed 138 this season, which puts her already third all-time behind the remarkable Besser Dyson and Corinne Wessels in the all-time single-season assist list. Hayden and her Newport Croatan (N.C.) side are in the NCHSAA Division 1A/3A title match against Kernersville Bishop McGuinness (N.C.). Bishop McGuinness, incidentally, has a top scorer in Kathleen Dennen, who will be looking to improve on her 116 goals.
What you see below are from available sources, including MaxPreps, Berks Game Day, the KHSAA, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Advance Media. To make this list an even more complete one, I encourage you to adopt the easy-to-use MaxPreps.com platform, and we encourage you to get your fellow teams to enter their information there as well as whichever is your local news site, so that we can aim for as complete a statistical picture of the country as possible.
GOALS SCORED, SEASON
152 Vanni Intini, Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy
151 Riley Sterling, Palo Alto Castilleja (Calif.)
151 Caroline Ling, Springboro (Ohio)
140 Sara Williams, Winter Haven All Saints Academy (Fla.)
134 Jaryn Zdanavage, Irgine Portoia (Calif.)
131 Scarlett Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
125 Ryann Frechette, St. John’s Bartram Trail (Fla.)
120 Reilly Cormer, Denver Northfield (Colo.)
118 Alexandra Gladding, Pompano Beach Pine Crest (Fla.)|
116 Sienna Chirieleison, Camp Hill Trunity (Pa.)
116 Kathleen Dennen, Kernersville Bishop McGuinness (N.C.)|
115 Triniti Cassidy, Snellville Brookwood (Ga.)
ASSISTS, SEASON
138 Lauren Hayden, Newport Croatan (N.C.)
87 Emily Phillips Wake Forest (N.C.)
87 Sophia Richardson, Lexington Sayre (Ky.)
84 Polly Miller, Fayetteville (N.C.) Academy
82 Charlee Nyquist, Lake Mary (Fla.)
77 Riley Nee (Hampstead Topsail (N.C.)
76 Taylor McGovern, Margery Stoneman Douglas (Fla.)
75 Allie Hirst, Southern Pines Pinecrest (N.C.)
68 Lilli Forman, Pompano Beach Pine Crest (Fla.)
66 Addie Gilner, Chapel Hill (N.C.)
66 Aubrey Harrison, Fairmount (W.Va.) Senior
ACTIVE COACHING VICTORIES
850 Kathy Jenkins|
501 Lisa Lindley
450 Chris Robinson
We could use help rounding out this list, given the number of lacrosse teams who no longer are covered by newspapers or who don’t connect with MaxPreps. If you see something amiss (bearing in mind that this is supposed to be a snapshot of lacrosse stats as of the end of play on Wednesday), please feel free to send an email to us at TopOfTheCircle.com. Include some backup (a website link will do), and we can make corrections.
Thanks for reading and we’ll be back next week.
