DETROIT (3/4/2024) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team will play another game against a Jesuit rival as the Titans head to Cincinnati, Ohio, to face Xavier on Tuesday.
Game time is set for Noon at Corcoran Field and will be broadcast live on FLO Sports. A live stats feed will also be available.
Detroit Mercy just played Marquette at home last Wednesday and was at Canisius on Saturday.
UDM fell 14-11 to the Golden Griffins as senior
Cat Kopchia scored three goals and added two assists, while junior
Maddy Camm tallied a career-best three points on two goals, an assist, three caused turnovers, three ground balls and two draw controls.
Kopchia is currently third in the MAC with 14 goals and Camm leads the league with 10 caused turnovers and second with 14 ground balls.
Xavier is 2-3 on the season as the Musketeers have victories over Radford and Presbyterian and are coming off an 11-10 setback to Akron.
Following the game, the Titans will stay on the road as they visit The Show-Me State for a game at Lindenwood on Saturday.
HONOR THY CAPTAIN
ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING
- The Titans posted a 3.51 GPA in the first semester - the second highest in the athletic department - with 19 players registering a 3.5 and 26 student-athletes garnering a 3.0.
- The program also posted a perfect 100% GSR in the latest report released by the NCAA in December and was named an IWLCA Academic Squad for the 13th time in school history last summer.
- Last year, nine students were tabbed to the IWLCA Division I Academic Honor Roll and 14 were named to the MAC All-Academic Team.
VS. XAVIER
- Xavier is one of the newest programs in Division I as the Musketeers are just in their second year as UDM took last year's meeting, 11-10, on the road.
AGAINST OUR FELLOW JESUITS
- The Titans are 1-16 all-time against Jesuit schools, with the win last year at Xavier, 11-10.
- Most of that is a 0-9 record versus Marquette.
FROM ALL OVER
- The Titans have four homegrown student-athletes on the roster, but Detroit Mercy has done a great job hitting the national recruiting trails.
- Detroit Mercy has players from Illinois (5), Ohio (5), Florida (3), Arizona (1), California (1), Indiana (1), Maryland (1), Minnesota (1), New York (1), North Carolina (1), Texas (1), Virginia (1) and Washington (1) along with one from Canada (1).
TAKE IT AWAY
- UDM has posted 48 caused turnovers through the first five games, with eight at New Hampshire and 10 at Duquesne, at Pittsburgh, against Marquette and at Canisius.
- In fact, the Titans saw Duquesne turn it over 24 times and Pitt and Marquette 18 times.
- The Titans registered double-digit caused turnovers just four times last season.
OUR ALL-MAC IS BACK
- Junior Leah Bodnar got off to a quick start in the season opener at New Hampshire as she tallied a career-tying three-caused turnovers with three ground balls, two assists and a goal. She then had two caused turnovers, two ground balls and a goal at Duquesne and four ground balls and a goal against Marquette.
- She is currently second on the team with 13 ground balls and has five points on three goals and two assists.
- Last year, she was named All-MAC Second Team after seeing action in 13 games with 12 starts and finished third on the squad with 19 goals and tied for fourth with 21 points. She also led the team with 33 draw controls, had 12 ground balls, and caused six turnovers.
- Bodnar scored a goal in seven games, all multi-goal contests, recording her first career hat trick with three goals at Central Michigan. She added another hat trick along with a career-best four GB's, two draw controls and an assist at Akron and had a monster game with a career-high five goals, six points and seven draw controls against Kent State.
NINE LIVES
- Senior Cat Kopchia has remained hot on offense as she is coming off her third hat trick of the season with a season-high five points on three goals and two assists with two ground balls, and two caused turnovers.
- Kopchia became just the 13th Titan in school history to reach 100 career points.
- She had three goals against Marquette the game before. She tied her career-best with four goals in the season opener at New Hampshire en route to being named the MAC Offensive Player of the Week.
- She currently tops the team with 14 goals and now has 102 points on 75 goals and 29 assists, 10th in school history with those helpers.
- She was already one of the top goal scorers in the MAC, starting all 12 games she played in and leading the team with a career-high 24 goals, second with 30 points and tied for third with eight assists last season. She also led the team with 75 shots and 56 were on net for a .747 shots on goal percentage and topped the team with five free-position goals and 14 free-position attempts.
- Kopchia recorded a goal in 11 of her 12 games, with nine multi-goal contests, including a season-high five points on three goals and two assists, along with a GB, a draw control and a caused turnover against Eastern Michigan. She tallied a season-high four goals at Akron and had three goals and an assist versus Kent State.
NOT IN MY NET
- Junior Meredith Leavell posted a season-high 15 saves against Marquette, her 13th career double-digit save game.
- She was named the MAC's Defensive Player of the Week after a stellar season opener that saw her record 10 saves with two caused turnovers and a ground ball at New Hampshire.
- She stopped 13 shots at Duquesne, including three on the free position, and five at Pittsburgh.
- Leavell is currently fifth in school history with 253 saves and 8.43 saves per game, third with a .424 save percentage and fourth with a 14.63 goals-against average.
- Last year, she played in all 14 games on the season with 13 starts and led the MAC and was ninth in the nation with 10.36 saves per game as well as leading the conference and 18th in the country with 2.86 ground balls per game. Her 145 total stops and 10.36 saves per game were third in the Titan record book, while her 40 total GB's and 145 saves were the third most in the league. She ended third in the league and 28th in DI with 145 saves, third in the MAC and 38th in the country with a .457 save percentage as well as fourth with a 14.40 goals-against average.
- Leavell registered double-digit saves in eight games and tallied a career-best 17 saves against Butler at home earlier in the year, tied for 10th in school history, along with five ground balls.
YOU RANG
- Graduate senior Marina Butler finally got on the stat sheet with a goal at Pitt and added another goal with two caused turnovers and two GB's against Marquette and a marker at Canisius.
- Last year, she led the team with 17 assists, was third with 30 points and tied for fourth with 13 goals.
- She scored a goal in seven games and had multiple markers in five of them.
- Butler tied her career-high with five points on three goals and two assists against Eastern Michigan. She also handed out a season-high three assists and scored a goal against Lindenwood and tied her season-high with three assists at Akron and at Eastern Michigan.
- She now has 83 points on 42 goals and 41 assists - tied for fourth in school history - along with 35 ground balls, 17 caused turnovers and nine draw controls.
OUR PRESIDENT
- Senior Sarah Meek not only holds the distinction of being one of the captains, but she also serves as President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
- Meek posted a career-high five ground balls and three caused turnovers at Duquesne and matched that effort with three caused turnovers and two GB's at Pittsburgh and three more takeaways and GB's at Canisius.
- She is currently second on the team with nine caused turnovers and third with 10 GB's.
- A three-time member of the Athletic Director Honor Roll and a two-time member of the MAC All-Academic Team, Meek saw action in all 14 games and tied for the team lead with a career-high 27 draw controls and also posted a career-best 10 points, tying her career-high with seven goals and adding nine ground balls and three caused turnovers.
- She recorded a career-high seven draw controls with a ground ball at Marquette and scored a career-best two goals with two draw controls and a ground ball against Lindenwood.
- In her career, she has 41 draw controls, 22 ground balls, 12 caused turnovers and 19 points on 14 goals and five assists.
A SCHILL OF A TIME
- Senior Abby Schillinger pulled down a career-best eight draw controls and scored a goal in the season opener at New Hampshire and added four draws at Duquesne and two at Pittsburgh.
- Schillinger had just 15 draw controls in her career coming into this season.
GIVE ME LIBERTY
- Sophomore Libby Cuckler has stepped up on offense to start the year as she recorded a goal and an assist at New Hampshire, two goals - both on the extra attacker - at Duquesne, had an assist at Pittsburgh and just recorded a goal and an assist at Canisius.
- She had just two goals and three points in 11 games last season.
YES I CAMM CAMM
- Junior Maddy Camm showcased a great all-around game last season and has started off this year with the same play.
- She leads the team with 11 draw controls, 14 ground balls, 10 caused turnovers and four assists and is tied for second with nine points and third with five goals.
- She tied her career best for the second-straight game with three caused turnovers to go with three ground balls, two draw controls and a career-high three points on two goals and an assist.
- She tallied a team-high and tied her career-best with three caused turnovers, four draw controls, three ground balls, a goal and an assist at Pittsburgh and recorded a goal and an assist, two draws, two GB's and a caused turnover versus Marquette.
- She ended with a team-high and tied her career-high with four ground balls, and registered an assist, a draw control and a caused turnover at New Hampshire and tallied two caused turnovers, two GB's, two draw controls and a goal at Duquesne.
- In her career, she has 33 caused turnovers, 40 draw controls, 51 ground balls with 17 goals and 16 assists.
- Last season, she topped the team with 16 caused turnovers, was second with 27 ground balls and tied for second with 27 draw controls to go with 11 points on five goals and six assists in 2023. Her 27 GB's and 16 caused turnovers were ninth most in the league and she also ranked sixth in the MAC with 1.23 caused turnovers per game as well as sixth in the league and 85th in the nation with 2.08 ground balls per game.
- On defense, she had at least one caused turnover in 10 games and multiple in five, at least two ground balls in 10 contests and two draw controls on seven occasions.
- She pulled down a career-best five draw controls with two ground balls and an assist at Xavier, recorded a career-best three caused turnovers, with a draw control, two ground balls, a goal and an assist against Eastern Michigan and two caused turnovers, two draw controls, a career-high four ground balls and a goal at Akron.
REPRESENTING PUERTO RICO
- Senior Cecelia Vergara had her best collegiate game with a career-high three ground balls, a career-best two assists, as well as a draw control and caused turnover at Duquesne.
- She donned a uniform for a few days in November as she was a member of the Puerto Rico National Team at the Pan-American Lacrosse Association (PALA) Sixes Cup in Kingston, Jamaica.
- A defensive midfielder, Vergara posted seven caused turnovers with five draw controls and three ground balls in 12 games last year.
- In her career, she has appeared in 38 games and has 26 draw controls, 17 ground balls and eight caused turnovers to go with seven points on four goals and three assists.
CONGRATS JULIA
- Senior Julia Fortino has battled some injuries in her career, but recorded her first two collegiate goals in the season opener at New Hampshire and added a third at Pittsburgh.
- She had just one point on an assist as a freshman heading into the season.
OUR WASHINGTON TITAN
- Sophomore Alyssa Jarvis, the first Titan from the state of Washington, had a solid rookie campaign last year and has improved in all areas as a sophomore.
- Jarvis has scored a goal in all five games and is second on the team with nine points and five goals, third with 10 draws and fourth with seven ground balls.
- She just scored two goals and tied her career-high with five draw controls at Canisius.
- She started this season with a pair of goals at New Hampshire, tied her career high with three points on a goal and two assists at Duquesne and picked up a career-best four GB's with a goal and caused turnover at Pitt.
- She played in 14 games with 12 starts as a freshman and was sixth on the team with 10 goals and tied for sixth with 13 points. She was also fourth on the squad with 18 draw controls and had 12 ground balls and four caused turnovers.
- She scored two goals on her first two collegiate shots at Xavier. Jarvis posted a season-best three goals with two draw controls and a ground ball against Robert Morris and pulled down a season-high five draw controls and had a goal and ground ball against Kent State.
