Trio of Nittany Lions Earn All-America HonorsTrio of Nittany Lions Earn All-America Honors

Trio of Nittany Lions Earn All-America Honors

Allen, Driver and Radin all secured an honorable mention on USA Lacrosse’s All-America Team

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State Women’s Lacrosse program placed three players on the USA Lacrosse All-America Team, as announced by the publication on Thursday. The trio of Rocquette Allen, Maggie Driver and Delaney Radin all earned honorable mentions.

 

USA Lacrosse All-Americans - Maggie Driver

Driver has grown into one of the most disruptive players in the Big Ten while being a leader on the defense. The Pennsylvanian has been matched up against the opposing team’s best offensive player throughout the year and has created chaos. Driver has picked up 24 ground balls and caused 27 turnovers, a career-high, in her senior season while adding draw experience to her repertoire with 27 wins outside the circle.

Despite missing a game due to injury early in the season, her 27 total caused turnovers and 1.59 per game average are tied for fourth and third-best in the Big Ten, respectively. Both marks lead all Penn State players, and she has caused multiple turnovers on eight occasions this season. Driver has tied her career-high with three caused turnovers four times this season with three of those coming against Big Ten competition. The Pennsbury product’s 24 ground balls are the second-most by any Nittany Lion this season and she picked up a season-high four in a Keystone rivalry game against Pittsburgh. In five games this season, Driver registered multiple ground balls and caused turnovers. Penn State won four of those games with the fifth being a one goal loss to then-No. 3 Maryland.

USA Lacrosse All-Americans - Rocqette Allen

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.”

USA Lacrosse All-Americans - Delaney Radin

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.

Up next, the Nittany Lions take on the Stanford Cardinal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in the Michigan Region on Friday, May 8th at the UM Lacrosse Stadium slated for 6 p.m. on ESPN+. The winner of that game will take on the winner of Michigan and Mercer on Sunday, May 10th at 1 p.m.

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