NCAA CHAMPIONs


T 22 LACROSSE MAGAZINE


By the Numbers


he Messinger family has been a part of Carolina lacrosse for years. Messinger’s sister, Kaitlyn, graduated from North Carolina in 2012. Their


uncle, Roy, played for the Tar Heels men’s team when it won NCAA titles in 1981 and 1982.


After watching her older sister practice on an offi cial visit, Messinger, who fi nished her senior year at West Morris Mendham (N.J.) high school with 100 goals and 77 assists, setting school records for career points (400), goals (263) and assists (149), approached Levy to say she was coming


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to North Carolina, too. “Oh my gosh!” exclaimed


Levy. “Did you tell your family?”


Messinger had not told anyone. Not even her father, Craig, who played lacrosse at Penn, taught her the sport and was with her on the visit. “You’re the fi rst person I told,” Messinger said. Messinger, who weighed just 72 pounds entering high school, showed Levy early on that she would not easily be intimidated.


“I’ve always been small,” she said.


After her team-in-progress proclamation, Messinger had the game-winning assist against Virginia, scored the


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Goals scored by Stony Brook junior Courtney Murphy, breaking the NCAA Division I single-season record that stood for 32 years. Murphy surpassed Delaware’s Karen Emas (98 goals in 1984) in a fi rst-round win over Boston College and hit the century mark in a second-round loss to Syracuse.


Maggie Auslander and the North Carolina defense limited Maryland’s potent offense to its lowest goal total of the season.


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