SPARKS, Md. — Head coach Lindsey Munday and her staff have selected the 12 players that will represent the United States in the women’s lacrosse competition at The World Games 2025 in Chengdu, China this August. The selections were made following a training camp involving 26 of the best women’s lacrosse players in the world at USA Lacrosse headquarters last week.
“When you have to pick a roster, it’s really challenging,” Munday said. “I’m so proud of all these players for showing up and giving their best. That’s all they can do. We keep saying, ‘picking 12 players is probably one of the hardest rosters you’ll have to make.’ They made our jobs extremely difficult, but I’m just really proud of the work they put in the last few days.”
The World Games, a quadrennial Olympic-style event, utilizes the sixes discipline of the sport, a fast-paced, small-sided version of lacrosse that includes just six players for each team on the field at a time, resulting in smaller roster sizes than the traditional field version of the game.
This edition of The World Games will feature up to 5,000 athletes competing in 34 sports and will feature women’s lacrosse as a medal sport for the third time. There will be no men’s competition at The World Games this year. The United States won the inaugural World Games gold medal in 2017, beating Canada 11-8 in the championship game of a full-field 10v10 format in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2022, Canada beat the U.S. 14-12 in the championship game in the sixes discipline in Birmingham, Alabama.
The U.S. roster features five players from the most recent U.S. women’s field championship team as Sam Apuzzo, Ally Kennedy, Ally Mastroianni, Marie McCool and Charlotte North helped the U.S. win the World Lacrosse Women’s Championship in 2022 in Towson, Md. Six of the 12 players also won World Lacrosse championships in 2024: Shea Dolce (U20), Kennedy (Box), Mastroianni (Box), Taylor Moreno (Box), North (Box) and Madison Taylor (U20).
The complete roster follows:
USA Women's World Games Roster
| Name | Position | Hometown | College |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Apuzzo | Field | West Babylon, N.Y. | Boston College '19 |
| Shea Dolce | Goalie | Darien, Conn. | Boston College '26 |
| Chloe Humphrey | Field | Darien, Conn. | North Carolina '28 |
| Ally Kennedy | Field | North Babylon, N.Y. | Stony Brook '20 |
| Kenzie Kent | Field | Norwell, Mass. | Boston College '19 |
| Ally Mastroianni | Field | Martinsville, N.J. | North Carolina '21 |
| Marie McCool | Field | Moorestown, N.J. | North Carolina '18 |
| Taylor Moreno | Goalie | Huntington, N.Y. | North Carolina '21 |
| Charlotte North | Field | Dallas, Texas | Boston College '21 |
| Izzy Scane | Field | Clarkston, Mich. | Northwestern '22 |
| Madison Taylor | Field | Wantagh, N.Y. | Northwestern '26 |
| Cassidy Weeks | Field | Bayport, N.Y. | Boston College '23 |
The U.S. team next gathers for a staging camp in Los Angeles from Aug. 1-3 before heading to China for The World Games.
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