Ella Simkins

2022 Season: Second-year defender who started all 12 games … authored 1,001 leaderboard points … posted 15 ground balls with 10 caused turnovers … scored lone goal of the season with three ground balls in Week Two opener against Team Johansen … also registered three ground balls in Week Two finale against Team Arsenault … posted two caused turnovers against Team Glynn on July 23 and against Team Johansen on Aug. 6.

2021 Season: Earned 1,102 leaderboard points with two games of 100 or more points … led all Athletes Unlimited defenders with three goals … ranked fourth in the league with 14 caused turnovers … finished eighth in Athletes Unlimited with 30 draw controls … set season high with 183 points against Team Arsenault in Week Two finale on Aug. 1, collecting three ground balls and three caused turnovers … opened season with eight draw controls against Team O’Donnell on July 23 … recorded at least one caused turnover in 10-of-15 games … one of 13 players selected in Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse College Draft. 

International Experience: Played for Team USA at the 2021 USA Lacrosse Fall Classic … member of training team for Team USA’s 2022 World Championship squad.

At Syracuse: Five-year letter winner with the Orange who started 69-of-74 games from 2017-21 … scored one goal with six assists during her career … also registered 121 ground balls with 138 draw controls … compiled 87 caused turnovers, which rank third in program history … First-Team IWLCA All-Region selection as a graduate student in 2021 … also earned Second-Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference recognition … Honorable Mention selection for IWLCA All-America Team as a graduate student … secured Third-Team All-America status from Inside Lacrosse … owns Syracuse single-season record with 35 caused turnovers during 2021 campaign … member of Syracuse team that led NCAA Division I in scoring defense in COVID-shortened 2020 season.