Third-Seeded West Chester Faces Off Against Sixth-Seeded Frostburg State in the NCAAs Thursday

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Who: 3-seed West Chester vs. 6-seed Frostburg State
Where: East Stroudsburg, Pa. – Whitenight Field
When: Thursday, May 7 – 2 p.m.

EAST STROUDSBURG, PA – The third seed in the Atlantic Regional, West Chester University (15-4), travels to East Stroudsburg, Pa., to take on the sixth-seed Frostburg State University in the first round of the 2026 NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Tournament at Whitenight Field on Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. West Chester gained entry to the postseason party by earning an at-large bid. Frostburg State punched its ticket to the dance by winning the Mountain East Conference (MEC) championship for the fourth consecutive season.
 
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10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW …

1. West Chester is making its 21st appearance in the NCAA Tournament and holds a 23-18 record overall. The Golden Rams have been to 11 NCAA Division II National Championship Games and have won two national titles (2002, 2008). West Chester lost to Slippery Rock in last year's Atlantic Region final. The Golden Rams have played for the region crown in each of the last six seasons dating back to 2019.

 

1. Now in her 28th season, the IWLCA Hall of Fame head coach Virginia "Ginny" Martino is seeking her second national title and third regional crown. She carries an overall career record of 439-88-0 (.835) into the NCAA Tournament. Martino's .835 career winning percentage is the third-best in Division II history and eighth-best among women's lacrosse coaches at any level. Her 439 career victories ranks eighth at all levels of lacrosse coaching as well.

 

1. As far as the NCAA Tournament goes, Martino is 23-18 overall in 20 appearances. However, the first two appearances came in the Division I Tournament in 1999 and 1998 when there was no D2 tournament and the top-ranked team in Division II became the 16th seed in the D1 tournament. West Chester lost both of those games (18-7 to Loyola, Md. ['99]; 23-7 to Penn State ['98]). The NCAA began offering a Division II Tournament in 2001. The NCAA has since expanded the field to create four regionals beginning in 2019. Martino brings a record of 7-4 in the Atlantic Regional into Thursday's contest. She has led her charges to the region final in each of the six years that the Atlantic Regional has existed, putting together a record of 2-4 in those games with regional titles in 2019 and 2023.

 

1. This is the first meeting between Frostburg State and West Chester in women's lacrosse. Frostburg State's field hockey team has been an associate member of the PSAC since 2024. The Golden Rams' and Wildcats' women's rugby squads battled last October in a National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) match. The two schools also played one another in baseball this past March in Olney, Md. West Chester took three of those four contests, but they were non-conference affairs. Frostburg State is a full member of the Mountain East Conference (MEC) in 21 of its other 26 sports.

 

1. West Chester landed seven players on the PSAC Eastern Division all-conference squad: [FIRST TEAMERS] Madeline Edinger, Lila McMahon-Skates and Sydney Wasdick; [SECOND TEAMERS] Kendall Fortune, Marissa Herring, Olivia Reinhart and Caitlin Trickett. Herring was named the PSAC East Freshman of the Year.

 

1. West Chester University finished the regular season ranked 10th in Division II by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA). The Golden Rams have been ranked by the IWLCA for 195 consecutive weeks, dating back to the 2014 season. Earlier this spring, West Chester saw its string of 116 consecutive weeks of being ranked in the Top 10 snapped on Feb. 23, 2026, when the Golden Rams were ranked 10th in the weekly IWLCA poll.

 
PLAYER NOTES … RECORD BOOK WATCH

1. Junior attacker, Kendall Fortune, brings a 29-game goal-scoring streak into Thursday's NCAA Tournament match, along with a 43-game point streak. Senior Lila McMahon-Skates brings a 34-game point streak into the weekend as well. Wasdick failed to score a goal in West Chester's PSAC Semifinal loss at Slippery Rock last week. That brings to an end her 19-game goal scoring streak.
2. Sydney Wasdick enters the weekend fourth on the school's all-time draw controls list with 253. She is one of only four Golden Rams to record more than 200 in a career. Madeline Edinger is ninth on the list (156).
3. Madeline Edinger played in her 83rd career game in the PSAC Semifinals last week. She holds the school record for games played by a position player in a career.
4. Lila McMahon-Skates has 101 points on the season, She is just the 11th player in school history to hit 100 points in a single season.
5. Natalie Goldsmith has appeared in and started all 8 NCAA Tournament games that WCU has played over the last three years. Madeline Edinger has appeared in all 8 NCAA Tournament games that WCU has played in as well. However, she has only started two of those contests. Lila McMahon-Skates has appeared in 7 NCAA Tournament games and started two. She has 6 goals, 13 points in those contests.
6. Sydney Wasdick and Kendall Fortune lead the team with 11 goals in NCAA Tournament games (4 games for each). Wasdick picked up 11 draw controls against Seton Hill in 2024, which set a single-game school record for an NCAA Tournament contest.
7. Sydney Wasdick also scored 8 goals in that win over Seton Hill in 2024, which tied a single-game school record for an NCAA Tournament contest.

 
 
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