STANDISH, Maine – The first Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly accolades of the 2023 spring season have been announced and Saint Joseph's College grad student Lydia Dexter (Oakland, Maine) has been selected as the GNAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week.
The first weekly awards of the spring season encompass all games played before March 6th, a time frame during which the Monks posted victories over Gordon College and University of Southern Maine.
Dexter led the Monks to a pair of victories by scoring nine goals with six assists, nine ground balls, and four draw controls in the team's first two games of the season. The graduate attack netted seven goals with an assist and six ground balls in a 17-5 win over Gordon College on February 25th and added two goals and five assists in a 13-5 victory over University of Southern Maine on March 1st.
The reigning GNAC Offensive Player of the Year garnered seven GNAC Player of the Week honors last spring when she scored 80 goals with 75 assists for 155 total points along with 78 ground balls, 46 draw controls, and 22 caused turnovers in 21 games. She established new SJC records for goals, assists, points, points per game (7.38), and assists per game (3.57) and shattered the GNAC single-season points record (previously 130 points).
Saint Joseph's will play at Plymouth State University on Wednesday at 3:30 PM.
