has announced the rosters for the 2023 NCAA DI, DII, and DIII Senior All-Star Games and Saint Joseph's College grad student Lydia Dexter (Oakland, Maine) is listed on the NCAA DIII North Team roster.
The top seniors and grad students from around the nation in each Division have been divided into two teams: North and South. The Senior All-Star games will be held on Tierney Field at USA Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Md. on Saturday, June 3, 2023. The Division II teams will play the first game at 10:00 am ET, the Division III game will follow at 12:15 pm, and the Division I teams will cap off the event with their game at 2:30 pm. Admission for all three games is free of charge. *The games will not be streamed this year. *
Dexter becomes the first player in program history to earn a spot in the IWLCA Senior All-Star Game after scoring 85 goals with 46 assists for a total of 131 points during the 2023 season. The three-time First Team All-GNAC selection and two-time GNAC Player of the Year honoree capped the 2023 campaign ranked fourth in NCAA DIII in points, fifth in goals, and 10th in points per game (6.55).
Dexter leaves the women's lacrosse program as the Monks' career leader in points (375), points per game (5.77), assists (161), and assists per game (2.48) and is also second in man-up goals (13), fourth in total goals (214), free-position tallies (33), and game-winning goals (11), and fifth in goals per game (3.29) in 65 career contests.
Last spring, Dexter helped the Monks win their second GNAC Championship while setting SJC single-season records for points (155), points per game (7.38), goals (80), goals per game (4.44), assists (75), assists per game (4.00), and man-up goals (9).
Among active NCAA DIII Women's Lacrosse players, she ranks fourth in points and assists, eighth in points per game, ninth in goals, 12th in ground balls (181), and 14th in assists per game.
Dexter is one of just two GNAC players to be selected to play in the IWLCA Senior All-Star Game – University of Saint Joseph senior Mackenzie Dinger will also participate in the annual exhibition contest.
Saint Joseph's posted a 16-4 overall record with a 12-1 mark in conference play under the watch of fourth-year Head Coach David Keenan this spring. As the #2 seed in the GNAC Tournament, the Monks disposed of #7 Norwich University by a 21-2 score and #3 Simmons University, 11-5, before falling short of defending the 2022 GNAC Championship with a hard-fought 10-6 loss at top-seeded Johnson & Wales University on May 6th.
2023 IWLCA SENIOR ALL-STAR GAME ROSTERS
ABOUT THE IWLCA:
The IWLCA is a membership-led, professional association representing the nation's intercollegiate women's lacrosse coaches within Division I, II & III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The IWLCA is a 501c(3) nonprofit educational organization.
Currently there are over 500 institutional members and over 1,200 coaches and staff at NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III, and NAIA collegiate programs.
