USA Lacrosse Names World Lacrosse Women's Championship Roster

SPARKS, Md. – Head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein has named the final roster of 22 players that will represent the United States in the Nissin Foods 2026 World Lacrosse Women’s Championship from July 24 through August 2 in Tokyo. The United States, the winner of the 2025 Pan-American Women’s Lacrosse Championship, is one of 16 teams that has qualified for the world championship.

Walker-Weinstein, the head coach at Boston College and a former gold medal winner as a player with the U.S. National Team at both the U19 and senior team levels, was named as the U.S. field team head coach in 2024. Since her initial training camp that year, she and her staff evaluated 58 players over the last two years at various training camps and competitions, most recently last week in Austin, Texas.

The final roster includes six players – Sam Apuzzo, Ally Kennedy, Ally Mastroianni, Marie McCool, Charlotte North and Caylee Waters – from the most recent field world championship in 2022. McCool, who also won a world championship in 2017, is aiming to become just the eighth player in U.S. women’s senior field team history to win three gold medals – a feat previously accomplished by Sarah Bullard, Danielle Gallagher, Kathleen Geiger, Cherie Greer, Sue Heether, Jess Wilk and Devon Wills.

With the roster expanded to 22 players from the previous World Lacrosse limit of 18, this team will also feature more current collegiate players, nine, than any previous U.S. roster. That list includes reigning Tewaaraton winner Chloe Humphrey (North Carolina) along with Shea Baker (Boston College), Shea Dolce (Boston College), Brigid Duffy (Army), Kori Edmondson (Maryland), Sam Forrest (North Carolina), Emma Muchnick (Syracuse), Eliza Osburn (North Carolina) and Madison Taylor (Northwestern).

Baker, Dolce, Duffy, Edmondson, Muchnick and Taylor were all members of the U.S. U20 team that won a world championship in 2024 in Hong Kong, China along with Emma LoPinto. Izzy Scane is also a previous junior level world champion, having won gold with the U.S. U19 team in 2019 in Peterborough, Ontario.

The U.S. has won nine World Lacrosse championships since the inaugural event in 1982 and claimed silver twice. The U.S. has won four consecutive world championships in senior women’s field lacrosse, including the most recent in 2022 when it defeated Canada 11-8 in the gold medal game in Towson, Md.

Here’s the full list of the 22 players named to the world championship roster:

USA Women's World Championship Roster

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