Jamie Ortega

2022 Season: Appeared in six games before suffering season-ending injury in Week Two finale … ended rookie season with 619 leaderboard points … scored six goals with seven assists … opened season with a goal in four consecutive games, including a hat trick against Team Waters on July 23 … had two assists against Team Read (July 24) and Team Apuzzo (July 30) … one of 15 athletes selected in Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse College Draft.

International Experience: Member of training team for Team USA’s 2022 World Championship squad.

At North Carolina: Five-year letter winner for the Tar Heels who started all 91 career games from 2018-22, the most of any player in school history … first player in North Carolina history to earn IWLCA All-America honors five times … second-leading point scorer in NCAA history with 466 points … owns North Carolina and Atlantic Coast Conference career points records … also stands first in UNC history with 334 goals while her 132 assists stand second in Tar Heel record book … posted top three single-season point totals in school history, including 113 points as a fifth-year senior in 2022 … tallied four of the top five single-season goals totals at North Carolina, including program-record 81 goals as a senior in 2021 … scored at least one goal in 54 of her final 56 games … netted multiple goals in 80-of-91 career games … notched at least one point in 90-of-91 games, including the final 85 contests in a row … recipient of 2022 Honda Award for Lacrosse as the National Player of the Year … one of two players in school history to be a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award twice, joining current Athletes Unlimited player Marie McCool … selected as 2021 and 2022 ACC Attacker of the Year … consensus First-Team All-America honoree by the IWLCA, Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine in 2021 and 2022 … scored 69 goals with career-best 44 assists as a fifth-year senior while leading North Carolina to 22-0 record and NCAA title … ranked third in the nation during 2021 season with 82 goals … also held fifth place in national rankings with .656 shooting percentage … registered 14 games with four or more goals as a senior … joined teammate Katie Hoeg as Co-National Player of the Year by Inside Lacrosse during COVID-shortened 2020 campaign after registering 32 goals with NCAA-leading .762 shooting percentage over seven games … became first player in program history with 100 or more points in a single season after ending 2019 campaign with 112 points … also set UNC single-season mark with 81 goals, good for seventh in NCAA Division I … recorded 18 multi-goal games as a sophomore … posted one of the best freshman seasons in school history after setting rookie records with 70 goals and 86 points … named 2018 Inside Lacrosse National Rookie of the Year and ACC Freshman of the Year.