DETROIT (3/24/2026) -- For the second week in a row, the Titans will look for some state supremacy as the University of Detroit Mercy women's lacrosse team heads a bit north to face Central Michigan on Saturday.

Game time is set for Noon at the CMU Lacrosse Complex and will be streamed live with CMU All-Access.

Both teams are going through some growing pains as the Titans are 0-7 overall and 0-2 in the MAC, while the Chippewas are 1-9 and 0-2 in league play.

Senior Alyssa Jarvis continues to lead the Titans in almost every statistical category, tallying 19 points, 17 goals, 20 draw controls, and eight ground balls. Meanwhile, redshirt sophomore Emily Coyne has a team-high 33 saves, and redshirt freshman Ava Bandi has a team-best eight caused turnovers.

UDM dropped a contest to Eastern Michigan at home last week, while CMU lost 22-1 at Massachusetts

VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN

• The Titans won the first four meetings and have taken the last two, but Central Michigan leads the all-time series, 7-6.
• Last season, the red, white and blue defeated the Chippewas, 9-7, to earn the final spot in the MAC playoffs.
• Detroit Mercy is 3-4 on the road in the match-up.

Series History
Mar. 30, 2016 - Home - W, 13-8
Apr. 29, 2017 - Away - W, 17-12
Apr. 28, 2018 - Home - W, 17-9
Apr. 27, 2019 - Away - W, 10-9
Mar. 7, 2021 - Away - L, 4-17
May 3, 2021 - Home - L, 7-20
Mar. 2, 2022 - Away - L, 6-18
Apr. 9, 2022 - Home - L, 9-18
Mar. 29, 2023 - Away - L, 8-13
Apr. 15, 2023 - Home - L, 8-20
Mar. 17, 2024 - Away - L, 8-9
May 2, 2024 - Away - W, 11-10
Apr. 27, 2025 - Home - W, 9-7

HONOR THY CAPTAIN

• Detroit Mercy will go with four captains this season as seniors Libby Cuckler, Angelina Hook, Alyssa Jarvis, and Jane Peck will have the honor.
• Cuckler and Jarvis are four-year Titans who have combined to play over 90 games entering the season and are the top two offensive players back from last year. Hook is another four-year Titan who has been a mainstay in the backline for the last two seasons, and Peck is in her third year in the red, white and blue after playing her freshman campaign at La Salle.

GIVE ME LIBERTY

• Senior Liberty Cuckler tallied two goals and an assist in the season opener against Butler, and has a goal in six of the seven games on the year.
• She is currently tied for second on the team with 10 points and third with seven goals. 
• Cuckler is now tied for 10th in school history with 33 assists and has 83 career points, including 50 goals.
• She was named Second Team All-MAC last year after leading the team with a career-high 47 points, tied for first with a career-best 30 goals, and tied for second with a career-high 17 assists.
• Cuckler was tied for fifth in the MAC with 1.13 helpers per game, seventh with 3.13 points per game, tied for seventh with 2.00 goals per game, and sixth with 3.93 shots on goal per contest.
• She posted a career-high six points on a career-best four goals with two assists at Furman, and a career-tying four goals and finished with five points at Kent State. She also had five points on a career-high four assists and a goal at Youngstown State, and ended the year with four goals against Robert Morris in the MAC semifinals.

OUR APPLE GIRL

• Senior Alyssa Jarvis leads the team with 19 points, 12 goals, seven assists, tied for first with eight ground balls, and second on the squad lead with 20 draw controls.
• She got off to a great start in the season opener, tallying a career-high six points on a career-tying five goals, to go with two draw controls and a ground ball. 
• She posted two more markers and a helper at Canisius, a career-high three assists, three DC's, and two GB's at Ohio State, a career-tying four ground balls, four draws and a pair of takeaways at Lindenwood, and seven DC's with a goal and a helper in the MAC opener at Akron.
• Jarvis has 166 draw controls, third in the record book, and is fourth with 3.07 draws per game. 
• She also has 87 points on 72 goals and 15 assists in her career. 
• She has earned All-MAC Second Team honors in each of the last two seasons. 
• Last year, Jarvis started all 15 games and tied for the team lead with a career-high 30 goals and was fourth with a career-best 31 points. She topped the team with 61 draw controls - eighth in school history - and ranked sixth in the league and 88th in the nation with 4.07 draw per game.
• Jarvis netted five goals with seven draws versus Akron and tied her career-high with five goals with five draw controls at Youngstown State. She also grabbed a season-high nine draws against Robert Morris, while scoring a goal.

ALL SMILES

• Freshman Alison Smiley has had a great start to her collegiate career, ranking second on the team with 10 goals, recording a hat trick in two contests, and tying for second with 10 points.  
• In her collegiate debut, she accomplished something that had not been done in 13 years and had been done just three times in school history posting four goals, the first freshman to post a hat trick in her collegiate debut since Michaela Schwartz scored three at Robert Morris in 2013.
• Smiley's four goals in her debut were the most since Anna Eidem had six and Emily Boissonneault had five against Howard in UDM's first-ever game in 2009.
• She came back with three markers at Canisius, and also had two markers at Ohio State.
• In the MAC opener at Akron, she pulled down four draw controls after having none in the previous five games. 
• As a prep, she recorded 297 career points at Mercy High School, second in school history. She was tabbed All-League three times and was All-State and All-Catholic twice.

PATROLLING THE CAGE

• The Titans have one of the youngest netminder units in DI, with sophomore Kaitlynn Hedrick, redshirt freshman Emily Coyne, and freshman Abbi Bernhardt.
• All three played in the opener, with Hedrick getting the start and playing nearly 40 minutes, posting four saves. She then made three at Canisius, six at Xavier, and five at Lindenwood, playing 30 minutes in each game.
• She came into the season as the only one who had seen time in the cage in college, playing in two games off the bench as a rookie.
• Coyne has started five of the last six games and made a season-high nine stops at Lindenwood, had seven against Eastern Michigan last week, seven in the first half at Canisius, and five at Xavier. 
• Bernhardt made her collegiate debut, playing the final 5:11 in the season opener against Butler and the final 4:20 versus the Buckeyes. 

ONE BRIGHT CHLOE

• Freshman Chloe Sheader was another rookie who made quite a collegiate debut, recording a goal, an assist, and four draw controls against Butler, and then had a takeaway and a GB at Canisius.
• She scored her second goal of the season at Ohio State and found the back of the net with a GB and a CT at Lindenwood.
• Last week against EMU, she had a takeaway and a ground ball. 
• Sheader posted 43 goals, 28 assists, 71 points, along with 81 ground balls, 60 caused turnovers, and 171 draw controls in 41 career games in high school.

OFF THE HOOK

• Senior Angelina Hook saw limited time as a freshman, but has been a main starter on the defensive side of the ball the last two seasons.
• She caused two turnovers and a ground ball at Akron.
• Last year, she started all 15 games and was fourth on the team with a career-high 11 caused turnovers and fifth with a career-best 21 ground balls.
• She picked up at least one ground ball in 13 games and had a takeaway in eight contests.
• Hook recorded a career-high three caused turnovers and three ground balls against Central Michigan.
• In her career, she has 18 caused turnovers and 38 ground balls.

NOTHING NEW FOR US

• A pair of redshirt freshmen will look to hold down a couple of defensive spots in Ava Bandi and Lucy Annese.
• Both had injuries that helped keep them out for the entire season as rookies, but they gained experience from the sidelines.
• Bandi posted a career-high three caused turnovers, with a ground ball, at Lindenwood. She recorded a team-high two caused turnovers and had a ground ball in the season opener, and added three more GB's at Canisius and a CT at Ohio State and at Xavier. 
• Bandi also had a caused turnover and a GB against Eastern Michigan, and currently leads the team with eight caused turnovers and is third with six GB's. 
• As a prep, she helped her team to a district championship as a sophomore and senior. She also played club with True PA and True National.
• A Canadian product, Annese was a five-time Elite Provincial champion and helped her team to three undefeated seasons. She also won a silver medal with the Ontario U19 team and was the recipient of the DDSB Rob Dyment Character Athlete Award and the Athlete of the Year.

D-UP

• Freshman Morgan Stamatakis had a standout career on offense in high school, but will now look to help on both sides of the ball.
• Stamatakis had an assist and a draw control in the season opener against Butler, and scored her first collegiate goal at Xavier. 
• She registered over 150 goals and 200 points as a prep, and was selected All-League Third Team as a sophomore and Honorable Mention as a junior and senior.
• Stamatakis posted 50 goals in back-to-back seasons, including a career-high 10 against Rochester Adams, and played club with Detroit United Lacrosse.

LOOKING FOR OUR AVARY

• Redshirt freshman Avary Sacdalan missed all of last season with an injury, but she made an impact in her collegiate debut against Butler, finding the back of the net for her first goal. 
• In high school, she was All-League as a sophomore, junior, and senior, and was the Team MVP as a junior.
• She also played club with MDLAX.

NO PECK ABOUT IT

• Senior Jane Peck saw action in just one game last season, but one of the co-captains is looking to end her career in high form.
• She picked up a career-high three ground balls at Xavier and had two GB's at Lindenwood last week.  
• She spent her freshman season at La Salle, but did not see action in any games.
• Peck played in 12 games for the Titans in 2024, when they made their run to the MAC Championship, and one last year.

STAR STRUCK

• Freshman Olivia Starr was a member of U-19 and U-15 Team Ontario and the U-22 Ontario Women's box lacrosse.
• She played travel with the Rock Stars Elite, Burlington Minor, Hamilton Lacrosse, and JEWL Selects Junior Elite, and helped her team to a gold medal at the USA Box Lacrosse nationals in 2023, a silver in 2024, and a bronze for the U19 Ontario Field team at the Jenny Kyle Cup.

WELCOME BACK

• Former starter Vanessa Evans rejoined the team in the middle of the season and made her debut against Eastern Michigan.
• Evans played in 15 games last year with 11 starts and had a caused turnover and three ground balls.
• Overall, she has seen action in 25 games in the red, white and blue in her four years. 

THIS IS LACROSSE

• The Titans had a couple of former student-athletes join the team in graduate seniors Ashley Bates and Emma Boorman
• Bates is a former soccer player, while Boorman was on the fencing team for a year.