NE10 Awards: De Wet Repeats as Player of the Year, Mastergeorge Takes Defensive Honours
The Northeast-10 handed out its postseason awards on Thursday, and the timing couldn’t be better. The Player of the Year and the Defensive Player of the Year meet each other in a semi-final tonight.
Lana Mignon de Wet, Adelphi’s senior midfielder from Pretoria, has repeated as NE10 Player of the Year. She scored 21 goals and added seven assists this season, 49 points in total, and she did it as the player every opposition coach game-planned around. De Wet is also the program’s all-time leading scorer; her 48th career goal came in overtime against Bentley on 23 October, a winner, because of course it did.
Tonight she goes to Worcester, where Assumption wait in the semi-final. And waiting for her there is the woman who just won the other big award.
Caroline Mastergeorge, Assumption’s graduate student midfielder, is the NE10 Defensive Player of the Year. Seven goals, six assists, three game-winning goals, and a defensive presence that doesn’t show up in a box score. She is only the fourth Greyhound to win the award, after Kerri Desto in 1998, Jenna Graf in 2021 and Callie Beauparlant in 2024. She was named the conference’s Defensive Player of the Week twice this season.
Assumption, it should be said, cleaned up. Nine Greyhounds made the All-NE10 teams, the most of any school. Mastergeorge, Marta Brzoska and Daisy Stone are on the First Team. Brzoska scored 10 goals and 24 points and led the whole conference with 70 shots on goal. Stone scored 11 and set up 14 more, and those 14 assists led the conference too. Racquel Provost and Nova Rijks made the Second Team, Julia Carbone and Taylor Tory the Third Team, and Elly Schofer and goalkeeper Abbie Derosier made the All-Rookie team.
Noorlag’s numbers are silly
Franklin Pierce’s Zoe Noorlag is the Goalkeeper of the Year, and the numbers back it up without any spin. The senior from Amersfoort started all 18 games and made 192 saves at a .807 save percentage. That’s more than ten saves a game, every game, for a whole season. Franklin Pierce also landed Puck Wanders on the Second Team and Jocelyn Valleau on the All-Rookie team.
Pace’s Stella Musso is the Rookie of the Year, and Saint Anselm’s Carolyn King-Robitaille is the Coach of the Year, after the Hawks reached the semi-finals as well.
The full First Team: de Wet (Adelphi), Mastergeorge (Assumption), Noorlag (Franklin Pierce), Feline Rook (Pace), Meghan Smith (Saint Anselm), Brzoska (Assumption), Stone (Assumption), Grace Francis (Pace), Meghan Carey (Saint Anselm), Jody Van Aardt (Adelphi), Keana Criscuolo (Southern Connecticut State) and Sheila Mullins (Bentley). Mullins was one of five Bentley selections; Avery Frommer made the Second Team after leading the conference with five defensive saves.
And then they play each other
The awards were announced on Thursday. The semi-finals are tonight. Saint Anselm host Pace at 4pm ET (2am PKT Saturday), and Assumption host Adelphi at 7pm ET (5am PKT Saturday) in Worcester.
That’s de Wet against Mastergeorge, the two players of the year, with a final on Sunday at stake. Assumption are 14-4 and 9-1 at home, and their 7-0 quarter-final win over Southern New Hampshire was the biggest margin in NE10 playoff history. Adelphi are 13-6 and have the best player in the conference. Something has to give.
