Marie McCool

2022 Season: Starter in all 12 games who earned 994 leaderboard points … tied for ninth in the league with 334 stat points … fashioned four games with 100 or more leaderboard points, including all three contests during Week Four … earned season-high 145 leaderboard points in final game against Team Apuzzo … scored 13 goals, including a two-pointer, with nine assists … led league with 49 draw controls … also tied for league lead with 33 ground balls … scored two goals in a game five times, including four of first five games … registered season-high three assists and nine draw controls in Week Four opener against Team Glynn … also had seven draw controls against Team Glynn on July 23 and Team Moreno on July 28 … collected 13 caused turnovers, including season-high three caused turnovers in Week One finale against Team Apuzzo.

2021 Season: Accumulated 1,517 leaderboard points during inaugural season … posted 100 or more points in a game eight times, including five of final seven outings … ranked fifth in the league with 452 stat points … finished season with 49 draw controls, the second-highest total in the league … scored 28 goals, including a pair of two-point goals, with 11 assists in 11 games … tallied at least one goal in 14-of-15 games, including the first 10 outings in a row … ranked second in Athletes Unlimited with 10 multi-goal performances, including four hat tricks … registered a pair of five-point efforts … scored three goals with two assists against Team O’Donnell on July 25 before netting three goals with two assists against Team Glynn on Aug. 16 … posted season-high four caused turnovers in season opener on July 23 against Team Ohlmiller … earned season-high 173 leaderboard points against Team Ohlmiller on Aug. 20 with three goals, two ground balls, two draw controls and a caused turnover. 

International Experience: Represented Team USA at 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship … Represented Team USA at 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship … All-World Team selection who ranked second on the team with 20 goals while contributing 17 draw controls … registered five hat tricks in eight games, including four-goal performance against Australia … also played for Gold medal-winning Team USA at 2017 World Cup as one of only two collegiate players on the roster … tied for fifth on the team with 12 goals in eight appearances … added nine ground balls with six caused turnovers … also scored four goals in four games to help Team USA win the World Games championship in Poland. 

Other Professional Experience: No. 2 overall selection in the inaugural Women’s Professional Lacrosse League Draft … two-time selection to WPLL All-Star Team while playing with the Baltimore Brave … honored as 2018 WPLL Most Valuable Player … scored 14 goals with three assists and 32 draw controls in 2019 while leading Baltimore to WPLL title.

At North Carolina: Four-year letter winner for the Tar Heels who started 73-of-85 games from 2015-18 … tallied 183 career goals with 63 assists … one of two players in North Carolina history to be named as a Tewaaraton Award finalist twice … also a two-time finalist for the Honda Award for Lacrosse … three-time IWLCA All-America selection … named 2018 IWLCA National Midfielder of the Year … also garnered All-America distinction from Inside Lacrosse twice … two-time Atlantic Coast Conference Midfielder of the Year … earned All-ACC recognition three times … Most Valuable Player at the 2016 ACC Tournament … named to NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team in 2016 and 2018 … honored as 2017 ACC Women’s Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year … recipient of 2018 Patterson Medal as North Carolina’s top student-athlete … fifth on North Carolina’s career goals and points lists … also stands ninth on Tar Heels’ career assist ledger … tallied 61 goals and 84 points as a senior, the eighth-highest marks at North Carolina … set North Carolina single-season record with 165 draw controls as a senior.