UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The No. 19 Penn State Nittany Lions head to Ann Arbor to face the No. 6-ranked Stanford Cardinal on Friday, May 8 at UM Lacrosse Stadium with first draw slated for 6 p.m. on ESPN+. Friday’s game will be the third ever meeting between the two programs, the first during postseason play, with a Nittany Lion win in 2015 and Cardinal win in 2016.
ACCUMULATING ACCOLADES
USA Lacrosse announced on May 7 that the trio of Rocquette Allen, Maggie Driver and Rocquette Allen were all named USA Lacrosse All-America Honorable Mentions. Radin and Driver both earned All-Big Ten First Team selections while graduate midfielder Anna Salerno was named to All-Big Ten Second Team. Allen and Susannah O’Connell were each selected to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team with Allen being a unanimous selection. Lilly Spilker was selected as Penn State’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree.
Radin, Driver, Salerno, Allen and O’Connell all make their debuts on the All-Big Ten rosters while Spilker earned her second yearly conference accolade after earning an Big Ten All-Freshman Team nod in 2025.
Allen earned the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award after her masterclass debut into the college ranks. This is the fourth time that a Penn State player has earned the honor, and the Nittany Lions are now tied with Northwestern for the most Big Ten Freshman of the Year accolades.
OFFENSIVE FIREPOWER
On the offensive front, Penn State has seen a surge of production compared to the 2025 season. In terms of points, the Nittany Lions have scored 141 more in 2026, good for a 53% increase year-over-year. Additionally, shot percentage has skyrocketed under the Treanor offense with Penn State shooting a conference-best 50.1% compared to shooting under 40% a year prior.
THE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Allen’s first year in the collegiate ranks has been in a class of her own. In her debut season with the Nittany Lions, the Mountain Vista product tallied 45 goals with 22 assists for 67 points, all three of which were the best by any Big Ten freshman during the 2026 campaign. Her 45 goals are tied for the team-high while her 22 assists and 67 points are each third on the team. Her goals total is tied for the sixth-best in the Big Ten while her points and assists totals are ranked 11th and 14th in the conference, respectively.
Throughout the campaign, she has been one of the biggest difference makers not only in the conference, but in the NCAA as a whole and has earned an array of accolades as a result. Not only was Allen named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week six times, the most by any Penn State player in program history and tied for second-most in Big Ten history along with Izzy Scane and Megan Whittle, she earned Big Ten All-Freshman honors and was the fourth Nittany Lion to be named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Her six accolades are only behind Tewaaraton Finalist Madison Taylor for one of the most dominant freshman campaigns in Big Ten history. Along with her abundance of Big Ten honors, she has also been recognized by national outlets with Inside Lacrosse naming her the seventh-best freshman in the country in the publication’s “Freshman Impact Rankings.”
QB1
Radin, in her breakout junior campaign, has established herself as one of the biggest passing threats in the nation and has rewritten the Penn State record book as a result. Throughout her electric 2026 season, she has totaled 56 assists on the year, averaging an astounding 3.11 assists per game, that places her nearly half an assist higher than the next closest Big Ten player on a per game basis. The 56 assists are the most in the Big Ten, a top-10 mark nationally and is the single-season program assists record for Penn State. Radin surpassed the original Penn State record that was set in 1990 by Megan Smith with her four-assist performance over the Scarlet Knights. Additionally, against Colgate, Radin set her career-high and tied the Penn State record for most assists in a single game with eight on the afternoon. The eight assists that she dished out is the most in the Big Ten in a single game this season, tied for fifth for the most assists by any Big Ten player ever and tied for second by any player in the NCAA in a single game this year.
Radin has amassed an abundance of points during her junior year campaign. In her first two years as a collegiate player, she totaled 19 points through 15 games for 1.27 points on average. Through 18 games this season, she has tallied 82 points for 4.56 points per game. Her 82 points more than quadruple her previous career total and is a top-five mark in the Big Ten and the 15th highest in Division I. Her 4.56 points per appearance is ranked within the top-25 in the NCAA and is the fifth best in the Big Ten. Radin became the first Penn State player since Steph Lazo in 2017 to record at least 80 points in a season.
Radin set new single-season highs in every offensive category this season and was named to the Tewaaraton Watch List earlier this season. Radin earned her first Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honor after her outing against Colgate that ended with nine points, tied for the most by any Nittany Lion this season. Additionally, she was named as an Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America Honorable Mention and was featured on Kylie Ohlmiller Rees' "Way-Too-Early 2027 WLL Draft Big Board" as the 10th-ranked junior in the country.
DUAL THREAT
MacKinney established herself as one of the most dangerous shooters in the nation while being able to pass the ball both efficiently and effectively. The junior attacked finished the regular season tied for the Nittany Lions lead with 45 goals, the sixth-most by any Big Ten player, while having the eighth-highest number of assists and points in the conference with 31 and 76, respectively, and her point total ranked within the top-20 nationally. The New Jersey attacker has the seventh-most assists in Penn State history with 93 in her career. Additionally, MacKinney’s shot is deadly accurate with 59.2% hitting the mark, the best shooting percentage by nearly 3% in the Big Ten and the fifth-best rate in the nation.
In MacKinney’s first two years as a collegiate player, the majority of her points came from dishing out assists. Her goals to assists ratio during her freshman and sophomore campaigns were 14:25 and 12:37, respectively. A switch has flipped during her spectacular junior year with her ratio flipping to have a greater amount of goals than assists for the first time in her career with a ratio of 45:31. The 45 goals she has tallied throughout 2026 is a new season-high, beating out her combined total from the past two years and has set a new high in points with 76 on the year, the second-highest by any Nittany Lion.
MacKinney recorded a point total of six or more five times throughout the 2026 season showing off her versatility as an attacker by being able to score, pass and a combination of the two. Against Colgate, Southern California and Oregon, MacKinney was able to have a balanced approach on the offensive end, recording four goals in all three games, four assists against the Raiders and Trojans and falling just shy of the mark with a trio of assists against the Ducks. She was able to show off her prowess as a passer in a February showing against Bucknell where she netted a goal and dished out a season-high five assists on the afternoon. In the ranked matchup against No. 25 Ohio State, MacKinney had the best outing of her career as a shooter, notching a pair of career-highs with seven goals and nine points along with two assists.
CAGE REPORT
The former Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Sydney Manning has registered the best year of her career in the cage. In 2026, the Pennsylvanian has posted career-highs in saves, save percentage, minutes and a low in average goals against. Against then-No. 6 Michigan, she surpassed 300 career saves while collecting her 350th saves against then-No. 6 Johns Hopkins.
Seven times during her junior campaign, Manning has secured double-digit saves with her career-best performance in terms of saves coming against the Princeton Tigers when she tallied 15 saves protecting the net, by any Nittany Lion since Ashley Bowan’s performance against Johns Hopkins in 2023.
Against No. 25 Ohio State, Manning played lights out and earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors for it. The Pennsylvanian goalie faced a career-high 39 shots against the Buckeyes and tallied 14 saves, a new career-best against a conference opponent. Her 14 saves were one of the most by Big Ten goalie during the week and had a 60.9% save percentage. Manning was excellent against free position attempts, being credited for a save and only allowing one past her on five opportunities. Additionally, the junior picked up a pair of ground balls in the effort.
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
Stanford is headed into Friday’s game after a loss in the ACC title game to North Carolina, 8-12. The Cardinal are led on offense by four 40-point scorers in Ava Areceri, Aliya Polisky, Martha Oakey and Mallory Hasselbeck. Arceri leads the squad with 46 goals on the year while Oakey has a team-high 29 assists with Polisky securing a 70-point season. Defensively, Kate Bellissimo, Kaleigh Sommers and Rylee Bouvier all have at least 30 ground balls picked up while trio all have caused 25 or more turnovers. Annabel Frist and Jordyn Case lead the Stanford draw unit with 69 and 66 draws, respectively, while Lucy Pearson has been the primary goalkeeper for the Cardinal. Pearson posted a 43.4% save rate for Stanford with a 7.87 average goals against per game. The Cardinal is led by Danielle Spencer alongside assistant coaches Kelsey Howard, Brian Kelly and Emily Cummings.
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