THIS WEEK'S MATCHUP
- The University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's lacrosse team earned the No. 3 seed in the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Lacrosse Tournament. The Mountain Lions will face No. 2 seed Regis University on Friday, April 25, at 7 p.m.
- UCCS has now qualified for the conference tournament six times, including the fifth straight year as the No. 3 seed.
- Colorado Mesa University and Regis won the RMAC regular season title with a 9-1 league record. The Mavericks of CMU won the tiebreaker and will host the four-team tournament at Community Hospital Unity Field (CHUF) in Grand Junction, Colo. CMU will take on No. 4 seed Westminster University in the first game on Friday at 4 p.m.
GAME COVERAGE
- Information for the 2025 RMAC Women's Lacrosse Tournament can be found below at the following links:
TICKETS
RMAC NETWORK
- Fans unable to attend the RMAC tournament games can watch the action on the RMAC Network. New in 2024-25, the league will offer additional options for fans following their teams as they compete for the RMAC tournament title. In addition to the day pass available last season, the league will offer a championship pass that is good for all contests during a particular tournament.
LAST TIME OUT
- UCCS closed out the regular season this past Friday at home against Regis, falling to the then-ranked No. 15 Rangers, 14-6. Sarah Urbanic carried the offensive load, collecting three goals and one assist, with four points on six total shots attempted. Other Mountain Lions who recorded goals include Emma Grace Martin, Allie Schell, and Sydnee-Anne Moeller. UCCS, which collected 29 ground balls, got contributions from Jade Wilson (six), Meghan Weiss (five), Kiley Cuddahy (three), Sofia Watts (two), and Jessie Ackerman (two).
AWARD WINNERS
- Emma Grace Martin and Sarah Urbanic recorded their career firsts this season when they earned their first RMAC Player of the Week honors. Martin led UCCS to a 2-1 record to start the season with 13 goals and four assists to earn RMAC Offensive Player of the Week accolades on March 3.
- Urbanic was named the RMAC Offensive Player of the Week twice in a three-week span. Her first weekly honor came on March 24 when she netted eight goals and two assists to help the Mountain Lions defeat Fort Lewis College and Colorado State University Pueblo on the road. Two weeks later, she was part of a UCCS unit that defeated the same two teams at home, turning in a 14-goal, four-assist performance to complete the season sweep over the Pack and Skyhawks. Her 18-point performance propelled her to earn Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Player of the Week distinction, becoming the first Mountain Lion in program history to be named the Division II National Player of the Week.
- The 2025 All-RMAC Women's Lacrosse teams will be announced tomorrow, April 24, and the RMAC All-Academic Teams will be released next month on Thursday, May 29.
ALL-TIME SERIES
- Friday's matchup is the third time this season, and the second time in a week, the Mountain Lions and Rangers will face each other. Since the program began in 2017, UCCS has yet to defeat Regis. Friday's semifinal game will mark the first time both teams have played each other at a neutral site, and the first time playing each other in the postseason.
SCOUTING REGIS UNIVERSITY
- Regis University enters the week ranked No. 14 in the IWLCA Division II poll, and has been ranked in the top 25 all season. After starting 2025 with three straight losses, the Rangers have bounced back and have won 10 of their last 11 games, including nine straight wins.
- Regis' only conference loss came at the hands of Colorado Mesa on March 14 in Denver, Colo., 16-11, but the Rangers avenged the loss at CMU on April 13, defeating the Mavericks 14-11. The Rangers wrapped up the regular season with a solid 11-4 overall record and a 9-1 mark in the RMAC, sharing the RMAC regular season title with CMU.
- As a team, the Rangers lead the league in draw control percentage (.619), save percentage (.521), scoring defense (8.3 goals allowed per game), scoring margin (5.3 goals per game), and shots on goal per game (25.3). RU's 11.4 caused turnovers per game are the second most in the RMAC, while they are third overall in assists per game (5.7), ground balls per game (22.5), and points per game (19.5).
- A trio of Rangers anchor the offensive and defensive units for the blue and yellow. Senior midfielder Becky Goetsch leads the team and is second in the RMAC in assists per game (1.7) and assists (26), while scoring the eighth most points in the RMAC (45). Junior midfielder Shea Murphy is a threat offensively, particularly from the free position. She scores nearly one free-position goal per game (0.8) and is fifth in free-position shot percentage (.522). She is currently second in the league in goals (47), goals per game (3.1), shots per game (6.7), and shots on goal per game (5.3), while her 53 points this season are the fourth most in the RMAC. Brigit Goetsch, a senior goalkeeper and the sister of Becky, owns the top goals against average (8.76) and saves percentage (.510), while posting the second most saves (125) and saves per game (8.3) in the league.
HOT TAKES
- UCCS finished the regular season owning a 9-5 record and a 6-4 mark in league games.
- The Rangers narrowly defeated UCCS on March 27, 11-10, on their home field. The two teams closed out the regular season this past Friday at UCCS, with the Rangers claiming a 14-6 win on Senior Day.
- UCCS' 11-10 setback at RU on March 27 was the closest margin of victory Regis has had over the Mountain Lions.
- Sophomore standout Sarah Urbanic is one of the top offensive players in the league, leading all players in goals (56), goals per game (4.0), points (75), points per game (5.4), shots per game (7.9), and shots on goal per game (5.9).
- In only 14 games played this season, Urbanic set UCCS season records in points (75), goals (56), shots (111), player-up goals (nine), and game-winning goals (four), and she is just six shots on goal shy of setting the season record.
- Making a substantial impact on the program in just her first year, freshman Sophia Watts is fifth in the league in goals (40) and goals per game (2.9), third in shots on goal per game (three) and fourth in shots per game (5.9).
- Redshirt-sophomore goalkeeper Jordyn Nuñez has collected eight wins between the posts this season, leading a trio of Mountain Lion goalies. She is currently fourth in the league in goals against average (12.2) and fifth in save percentage (.387).
- Sophomore Emma Grace Martin owns an RMAC-best free-position percentage (.688), and she is fourth in the league in assists (22) and assists per game (1.6), and third in the RMAC in points per game (3.8) and free-position goals per game (0.8).
- Heading into the postseason and having played only 14 regular-season games, the Mountain Lions have set team season records in points per game (22.9), goals per game (15.5), draw controls per game (15.4), and player-up goals (47). The 47 player-up goals are an incredible 13 more goals than the previous record (34 in 2024).
- With at least one more game left in the season, the Mountain Lions are close to setting more team season records, ranking second already in points (320), assists (104), assists per game (7.4), ground balls (360), and ground balls per game (25.7).
REGIONAL RANKINGS
- For the first time in program history, the UCCS women's lacrosse team is regionally ranked by the NCAA committee. The Mountain Lions are one of eight teams under consideration in the first edition (April 16) of the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Midwest Region rankings. The next regular season ranking will be released this afternoon on ncaa.com.
WEATHER
- Friday's forecast in Grand Junction is slated to be sunny with highs reaching 80, before cooling off to around 50 degrees overnight.
UCCS UNDER HEAD COACH BRICE QUEENER
- Brice Queener is in his first year leading the Mountain Lions. In just 14 games played during the regular season, the Mountain Lions have matched a program best nine wins, and their six conference wins are the second most in team history.
UPCOMING GAMES
- The winner of each semifinal game will face each other in the conference championship match on Sunday at 5 p.m.
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