Becca Block

2022 Season: Repeat selection as GEICO Defensive Player of the Year … member of inaugural All-Defensive Team who started all 12 games … accumulated 1,023 leaderboard points … tied for ninth in the league with 90 win points … posted five games with 100 or more leaderboard points, including season-high 147 points against Team Moreno on July 31 … ranked fifth in Athletes Unlimited with 22 ground balls and 15 caused turnovers … collected three caused turnovers with three ground balls against Team Arsenault in Week Two … closed Week One with four ground balls and four draw controls against Team Glynn … also fashioned four draw controls in Week Two finale against Team Moreno.

2021 Season: Inaugural Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse GEICO Defensive Player of the Year … ranked third among all defenders with 1,314 leaderboard points … posted seven games with 100 or more leaderboard points, including four of final five games … first defender to be selected in all five weekly drafts … recorded 22 ground balls with 12 caused turnovers in 15 games … set season high with four ground balls against Team Wood on Aug. 6 … authored back-to-back games with two caused turnovers against Team Douty and Team O’Donnell to end Week One … posted two assists on Aug. 15 against Team Arsenault. 

International Experience: Member of Team USA since 2012 … represented Team USA at 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship … member of a defensive unit that allowed tournament-low 39 goals in eight games … registered eight ground balls while starting all eight games … also helped United States win Gold medal at 2017 World Cup and 2017 World Games in Poland … scored one goal in eight games at 2017 World Cup and tallied 10 ground balls with two caused turnovers. 

Other Professional Experience: Scored two goals with an assist in 10 games with the Long Island Sound of the United Women’s Lacrosse League in 2016 after being taken with No. 14 overall pick in inaugural UWLX Draft … helped Sound defeat Boston Storm, 13-8, to claim league’s first championship … also played in the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League with the New England Command in 2018.

At Syracuse: Four-year letter winner at Syracuse who appeared in 79 games from 2010-13 … two-time First-Team IWLCA All-America selection for the Orange (2012, 2013) … honored as 2013 IWLCA National Defender of the Year … also secured BIG EAST Conference Defender of the Year recognition as a senior … three-time All-BIG EAST selection, including First-Team honors as a junior and senior … member of 2012 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team … earned BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week award five times in 2012 to set a conference record.