Syracuse, NY — For the third time this season, the State University of New York at New Paltz swept weekly women's lacrosse honors.
 
The SUNYAC announced its weekly award winners Monday with Hawks senior Kaitlyn Shaw earning her third SUNYAC Offensive Player of the Week nod, while senior Morgan Woolley was named as the Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career.
 
Shaw swept the weekly accolade with teammates Morgan Atwater (March 4) and Mia Baldinger (March 11) earlier this year, while Woolley becomes the fifth Hawk honored this season, joining Shaw, Atwater, Baldinger and Lexi Atwater (March 18).
 
The two have been critical in the team's historic 8-0 start, and the play continued this past week in dominant victories at home over Manhattanville and Buffalo State, respectively.
 
Shaw led SUNY New Paltz offensively in both matchups but was the catalyst in a 22-5 rout of the Valiants in a record-setting performance. She became the program's new single-game points and goals leader in the win, totaling 12 points after scoring nine goals and dishing out three assists, while adding two ground balls and three draw controls. She backed up that performance with a game-high six points in a 15-1 SUNYAC opening victory over the Bengals Saturday. She registered three goals and three assists in a weather plagued affair, while also totaling a game-high five draw controls. She finished the week with 12 goals and six assists for 18 points with two ground balls and eight draw controls.
 
Thus far, Shaw leads the team with 38 goals and 54 points with 16 assists, 15 ground balls and 26 draw controls thus far. She sits 20 points shy of tying the program's all-time record.
 
Woolley, meanwhile, has led her team defensively all season and is just one caused turnover shy of tying the team's single season record in the category with 30 caused turnovers already through eight games.

She piled onto her numbers in a stout defensive outing, as the Hawks allowed just six goals against in their two wins on the week. Woolley tallied a team-leading 11 caused turnovers with nine ground balls in wins over Manhattanville and Buffalo State. Against the Valiants, she recorded a game-high five caused turnovers with five ground balls, while registering a team-high six caused turnovers with a game-high four ground balls against the Bengals Saturday.
 
The Hawks continue their SUNYAC schedule in their next outing Friday when they host Brockport on North Turf Field at 11 a.m.
 
To read the official SUNYAC press release, click here.

 
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