SOUTH BEND, Ind. – With the dawn of the ACC Championship Tournament upon us, six members of the Notre Dame women’s lacrosse team have been named to All-ACC Teams, as announced by the conference Tuesday afternoon. The graduate trio and team’s leading point scorers of Madison Ahern, Kasey Choma and Jackie Wolak highlight the First Team honorees while a pair of senior midfielders in Kelly Denes and MK Doherty are featured on the Second Team. Meghan O’Hare made a quick impact at the Irish midfield this season as a rookie and has picked up her first conference honors as a member of the All-Freshman team. As one of the nation’s top offenses, while boasting one of the toughest defenses at the same time, the Irish have two attackers and four midfielders featured between the three teams.
A Cohasset, Massachusetts native, Ahern was a 2023 First Team honoree as well and boasts 66 points thus far in 2024, including 47 goals. Last week she reached the 300-career point milestone, becoming just the fourth woman in program to accomplish the feat, and second this season.
Choma, who currently boasts 67 points on the season behind 46 goals and 21 assists, received First time honors for the second consecutive year. A 2024 Tewaaraton nominee, the graduate midfielder most recently tallied nine points in the team’s win at Louisville to close out the regular season and was named ACC Offensive Player of the Week earlier today.
The team’s leading scorer, Wolak was recently also tabbed a Tewaaraton nominee and was also honored as an All-ACC First Team honoree a season ago. This year, the graduate attacker boasts 82 points and owns 313 career points with the Irish.
Denes recently eclipsed triple digit draw controls for the third consecutive season and is 10 shy of tying Andie Aldave’s program record as the team heads into ACC Tournament play. The senior draw specialist now owns 118 draw controls on the season and ranks among the nation’s best at the dot. Her 7.38 draw controls per game is 14th nationally and second in the ACC. The Second Team honor is her second in as many seasons.
Second on the team in draw controls and also one of the program’s top scorers this year, Doherty was named All-ACC for the first time in her collegiate career. The senior midfielder currently boasts 68 draw controls on the year and has 39 points off 25 goals and 14 assists. Most recently, the Summit, New Jersey native recorded two goals in 11 seconds at Louisville, while also winning the draw control in between. Her first goal of the sequence proved to be the eventual game-winner over Louisville and she now owns over a third of all game-winners this season (5).
A new face to the team this season, O’Hare picked up her first conference honor after being recognized on the All-ACC Freshman team. The rookie has nine goals on the season while owning 28 draw controls and six caused turnovers. O’Hare stepped into a pivotal role early in the season, having started most games in the early half of the season and receiving valuable minutes late in close games.
The Irish open ACC Tournament play tomorrow evening with a 5pm start against Clemson in the conference quarterfinals.