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Women’s Lacrosse Qualifies for Ivy Tournament for the First Time in Program History
4/21/2025 4:08:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – For the first time in program history, the Brown women's lacrosse team has qualified for the Ivy League Women's Lacrosse Tournament.
The championship tournament will take place on May 2 and 4 and will be hosted by the league's regular season champion/No. 1 seed. The inaugural championship tournament was held in 2010, with the winner earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Despite a hard-fought 15-13 defeat at No. 5 Princeton on Saturday, the Bears still punched their ticket to the Ivy Tournament by Penn's 18-10 victory over Cornell.
With one game remaining in the regular season, Brown currently sits in a tie for second place in the Ivy League standings with Yale and Penn, all of whom are 4-2 and just one game behind Princeton. At 10-4 overall, Brown has tied a program record for most wins in a season, the fourth time they have hit that mark, joining the 1978, 1996, 1997, and 2024 squads.
The Bears' strong season has featured the team being ranked nationally for five consecutive weeks, first breaking into the rankings on March 24 after a 14-11 win over then-No. 7 Yale. The Bears sit at No. 18 nationally in this week's (April 21) IWLCA and Inside Lacrosse Polls.
The Bears won four consecutive Ivy League games earlier this season, two of which came against nationally ranked opponents in then-No. 24 Harvard (12-10) and then-No. 7 Yale (14-11). The team also put together strong, down-to-the-wire showings against highly ranked opponents in No. 11 Duke (14-13 loss) and this weekend's 15-13 defeat at No. 5 Princeton. Brown has also consistently ranked in the top 25 in RPI this season, currently slotting in at No. 23.
Statistically, the Bears rank No. 2 in the nation in assists per game this year with 9.00, and ninth with 24.14 points per game, both of which lead the Ivy League. Defensively, Brown sits 24th in the nation and second in the league by allowing 10.0 goals per contest.
Individually, senior Annie Burton leads the league with 45 assists and ranks sixth nationally with 3.21 assists per game. Senior Carly Camphausen ranks 11th nationally and first in the Ivy with a .667 free position percentage, and senior goaltender Claire Mahoney ranks ninth in Division I and leads the league with a 9.01 goals-against average. Camphausen also scores on 64.9 percent of her shots this season, good for second nationally.
Burton enters the final game of the regular season with 45 assists this season, good for the second-most in program history and just five shy of Lauren Becker's school benchmark of 50 from 1986. Greta Criqui's 47 goals rank sixth all-time, just one shy of moving into the top five in single-season program history. Beth Anderson's 76 draw controls sit third all-time, 20 shy of the single-season program record.
For career marks, Burton currently sits fifth all-time with 158 points, and she ranks second all-time with 92 career assists, 28 shy of the program's all-time mark. Criqui's 109 goals also rank fifth in program history for a career.
The Bears' regular season finale is set for a 1 p.m. start this Saturday, April 26 at Stevenson-Pincince Field against Penn on ESPN+.
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