2017 Women's Lacrosse

18 Leah Hughes

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Owen J. Roberts
  • Hometown Spring City, PA
  • Major Psychology

Biography

2016 IWLCA Zag Academic Honor Roll

2017: Finished up a tremendous career with a great season…served as a captain of the team and showed great leadership and versatility throughout the year…played and started every game…saw action all over the field and worked well in every spot…set career-highs in goals, points, ground balls, and caused turnovers, showing her production all over the field…found the back of the net 11 times and assisted on two more…picked up 20 ground balls and forced 10 turnovers…tied single-game career-high of five goals in win over Sweet Briar…had six points (four goals and two assists) in win over Hollins…will be greatly missed by the team, staff, and the department for everything she did on the field as well as off the field.

2016: Had a huge year for the WildCats…one of only six players on the team to appear in every game, while starting all but one of them on the season…showed her versatility by taking on two very different roles…started the season in attack where she scored a career-high five goals against Wesley…soon after switched to a defensive role and proved to be pivotal on defense…routinely would shut down counterattack and help in the clearing aspect for Randolph…forced eight turnovers on the season while corralling 18 ground balls…also pulled in 13 draw controls…will look to finish her career with another big season in whatever capacity is needed.

2015: Appeared in six games, early on in the season before suffering an injury...started four of the games...had three goals, with all of them coming in wins...found the back of the net twice against Southern Virginia and once against Marywood...picked up two ground balls and two draw controls, and added a caused turnover...will look to provide more with a full year ahead of her.

2014: Had eight goals and three assists on the season, adding 15 ground balls...had two goals on three occassions (Guilford, Sweet Briar, Ferrum)...her two free position goals against Ferrum is the second-most in a single game in team history...five draw controls against Methodist...caused three turnovers against Wittenberg...played all 17 games, starting 16 in defense and the midfield

Before Randolph: Three-sport athlete for the Wildcats of Owen J. Roberts....played soccer, lacrosse and swam...won the conference in swimming...board member of the best buddies program...minoring in education...also a member of the women''s soccer team.

Personal: Daughter of Brian and Patricia...has two siblings, Daniel and Emily...enjoys volunteering....two-sport athlete at Randolph, playing soccer as well.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 18

    2014First Year

    Defender/Midfielder
    5'6"
    18
  • 18

    2015Sophomore

    Midfielder
    5'6"
    18
  • 18

    2016Junior

    Midfielder
    5'6"
    18
  • 18

    2017Senior

    Defender
    5'6"
    18