NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. – The Plymouth State University women's lacrosse team and seven individual student-athletes were honored on Wednesday when the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) announced its 2025 Academic Honor Squads and Academic Honor Roll recipients.
 
Plymouth State has been named an IWLCA Academic Honor Squad in 12 of the last 13 years. The organization did not announce winners during the 2019-20 year as the pandemic canceled the majority of the lacrosse season. To qualify for the honor, teams must post a 3.20 or higher team GPA for the academic year. Plymouth State was one of four Little East Conference (LEC) schools to be recognized, joined by Keene State, UMass Boston and UMass Dartmouth. A total of 383 schools across all three NCAA divisions and the NAIA were honored.
 
Additionally, seven members of the team were named to the IWLCA Division III Academic Honor Roll: graduate students Megan Gaspa (Laconia, N.H.) and Elle Moshier (Stratford, Conn.), seniors Julia Donovan (Antrim, N.H.), Maddie Hunt (Littleton, Mass.), and Jenna Stowell (Londonderry, N.H.), and juniors Morgan Cunningham (Wrentham, Mass.) and Katie Moore (Salem, N.H.). Moshier, Donovan, Hunt, and Stowell are all two-time honorees. To be eligible, student-athletes must be a junior, senior or graduate student and have earned a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or greater. PSU's seven recipients was the most among LEC member institutions, while a total of 1,284 student-athletes representing 201 different institutions were recognized.
 
Plymouth State posted a 16-4 record this spring, finishing one shy of the program record for wins in a season and going a perfect 8-0 in the LEC to claim the program's 12th regular season title. Although the team was upset in the championship game of the LEC Tournament, the Panthers earned the program's and conference's first-ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Plymouth State topped Marymount University (Va.), 20-16, in the opening round for the team's third NCAA Tournament victory.