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Three Tar Heels Chosen Among ILWomen’s Top 50 Players For 2025
January 2, 2025 | Women's Lacrosse
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – ILWomen has revealed its annual list highlighting the Top 50 College Players for 2025, which features three North Carolina women's lacrosse standouts among the nation's best.
Included on the list are Brooklyn Walker-Welch (No. 4), Ashley Humphrey (No. 26) and Marissa White (No. 30). Walker-Welch is the highest-ranked defender on the list.
A redshirt-junior, Walker-Welch will make her return to the field after missing the entirety of the 2024 season due to injury. She garnered ILWomen First Team All-America, All-South Region First Team and All-ACC First Team accolades as a sophomore in 2023 after anchoring UNC's defense which limited opponents to an ACC-leading 8.4 goals per game in addition to recording 29 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers.
Pacing the Tar Heels' offense a year ago was Humphrey who had a team-high 38 assists and 57 points during her first season in Chapel Hill while also scoring 19 goals. The graduate attacker is the current active Division I leader with 3.17 assists per game, also ranking second with 168 career assists and third with 4.83 points per game. She was tabbed Honorable Mention All-America by both USA Lacrosse and ILWomen in 2024.
Also eager to suit up again after being sidelined by injury in 2024 is White, who enters her redshirt-sophomore season in 2025. She ended her freshman campaign in 2023 with a team-high 46 goals, also adding three assists for 49 points. The attacker had 14 multi-point games, was picked to the ACC All-Freshman Team and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors by USA Lacrosse.
The Tar Heels officially open the 2025 season at home against James Madison on Friday, Feb. 7, at Dorrance Field. The complete schedule can be found here.
Stay up to date with UNC women's lacrosse by following the Tar Heels on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Included on the list are Brooklyn Walker-Welch (No. 4), Ashley Humphrey (No. 26) and Marissa White (No. 30). Walker-Welch is the highest-ranked defender on the list.
A redshirt-junior, Walker-Welch will make her return to the field after missing the entirety of the 2024 season due to injury. She garnered ILWomen First Team All-America, All-South Region First Team and All-ACC First Team accolades as a sophomore in 2023 after anchoring UNC's defense which limited opponents to an ACC-leading 8.4 goals per game in addition to recording 29 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers.
Pacing the Tar Heels' offense a year ago was Humphrey who had a team-high 38 assists and 57 points during her first season in Chapel Hill while also scoring 19 goals. The graduate attacker is the current active Division I leader with 3.17 assists per game, also ranking second with 168 career assists and third with 4.83 points per game. She was tabbed Honorable Mention All-America by both USA Lacrosse and ILWomen in 2024.
Also eager to suit up again after being sidelined by injury in 2024 is White, who enters her redshirt-sophomore season in 2025. She ended her freshman campaign in 2023 with a team-high 46 goals, also adding three assists for 49 points. The attacker had 14 multi-point games, was picked to the ACC All-Freshman Team and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors by USA Lacrosse.
The Tar Heels officially open the 2025 season at home against James Madison on Friday, Feb. 7, at Dorrance Field. The complete schedule can be found here.
Stay up to date with UNC women's lacrosse by following the Tar Heels on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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