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Women’s Lacrosse Rules Proposals Approved to Simplify Penalty Structure, Improve Pace of Play

Changes in place for 2025-26 season

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Steve Ulrich
August 21, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes

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1. Women’s Lacrosse Rules Proposals Approved to Simplify Penalty Structure, Improve Pace of Play

by Greg Johnson, NCAA

“The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules changes to simplify the penalty structure and improve the pace of play in women's lacrosse, beginning with the 2025-26 academic year.

The panel approved the following measures:

  • Expanding one-minute releasable penalties in the midfield to all over the field, except in the critical scoring area.

  • Using an advantage signal for one-minute releasable penalties, when applicable, which will allow teams the opportunity to play on. The one-minute penalty can be negated if a goal is scored during the advantage or administered at the conclusion of the advantage period.

  • Running the clock on 8-meter free positions, except for the last minute of each quarter or overtime.

  • Setting up 8-meter free positions only at the two adjacent hashes on both sides of the center hash.

  • Upgrading dangerous contact penalties to a nonreleasable yellow card.

  • Flagging shooting space fouls in the critical scoring area.

FINANCES
2. Washington College Faces Financial Woes, Presidential Turnover at Critical Time

by Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun

“Washington College could perhaps use its namesake’s 50 guinea coins these days.

The 243-year-old institution in Chestertown on the Eastern Shore, whose early donors and board members included the future first U.S. president, has seen enrollment tumble, its budget run into deficit, and five presidents or interim presidents come and go in the past 10 years, the most recent leaving last month.

While the troubles are not entirely unique among small liberal arts colleges across the country, they have unnerved some alumni and community members for whom the tidy red-brick campus is a precious gem in this charming small town on the banks of the Chester River.”

» The Bottom Line. “The college has dipped more deeply than it would like into its endowment, cut staff and salaries and enters this academic year with 94 faculty members, from 103 last year. College officials said its budget faced structural issues as a result of declining enrollments — it had 923 students last year compared to 1,515 in 2011 — without a comparable drop in its largest expense, salaries and compensation.”

» Between The Lines. “The school shed nearly 40 staff positions through measures like early retirement and position eliminations. Officials said they did not let any tenured or tenure-track professors go, instead targeting visiting professors and other staff, furloughed the highest-paid employees for two weeks and cut the cabinet’s salaries by 7%.”

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3. Commits

The latest recruiting commitments, courtesy of Inside Lacrosse.

Men

  • Theo Kelley, LSM, Alfred, Clarence (N.Y.) HS

  • Phelan Semon, M, Cortland, Henderson (Pa.) HS

  • Horatio Ashton, GK, Endicott, Del Notre (Calif.) HS

  • Dylan Reilly, M, Franklin & Marshall, Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) HS

  • Justin Lee, D, Hartford, Shrewsbury (Mass.) HS

  • Ethan Zapisek, D, Hartford, Montville (N.J.) HS

  • Jaren Donahue, D, Juniata, Daniel Boone (Pa.) HS

  • Logan Carter, A, UMass Boston, Dover (N.H.) HS

  • Marino Yozzi, M, Roanoke, Independence (Va.) HS

  • Brendan Keogh, A, RIT, St. Anne’s Belfield (Va.) School

  • Potter Batton, A, Stevenson, Apex (N.C.) HS

  • Caden Federigo, M, Stevenson, Notre Dame (N.J.) HS

  • Caden Lucich, M, Ursinus, Christian Brothers (N.J.) Academy

  • Jackson Steele, M, Virginia Wesleyan, Peninsula Catholic (Va.) HS

Women

  • Avery Massey, D, Bard, Owen J. Roberts (Pa.) HS

  • Mackenzie Albrecht, M, Capital, Beavercreek (Ohio) HS

  • Sarah Prudlow, M, Carroll, Brookfield (Wis.) LC

  • Jordanne Peterson, A, Chapman, Coronado (Calif.) HS

  • Stella Ingle, M, Chicago, Miss Hall’s (Mass.) School

  • Gianna Trotta, A, Cortland, William Floyd (N.Y.) HS

  • Chelsea Harte, A, Dickinson, Notre Dame (Md.) Prep

  • Keira Farrugia, D, Oswego, Lancaster (N.Y.) HS

  • Stella Scobbo, D, Trinity (Conn.), Medfield (Mass.) HS

  • Kylie Kean, M, Vassar, North Andover (Mass.) HS

  • Siobhan Vonnie Allen-Guy, M, Wisconsin-La Crosse, Henry Clay (Ky.) HS

NEWS YOU CAN USE

4. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

» Championship (M/W). “The anticipated pool allocations for the 2026 men’s championship are as follows: Pool A – 27 and 13 at-large. The anticipated pool allocations for the 2026 women’s championship are Automatic Qualifiers – 30 and At-Large – 17.”

TRANSACTIONS
5. Comings and Goings 

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6. Mascot’s Summer Secret - Vodka and Water

by Dan Gelston, Associated Press

“The Phillie Phanatic has a boozy little secret for surviving the dog days of summer.

Vodka and water. Neat. Hold the lemon.

Not for hydration. Most mascots these days order off the happy hour menu when they really want to feel fresh and clean on the inside.”

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