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2026 Women's Lacrosse Roster

Michael Nance

19 Eden Welch

  • Position Attack
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Phillips Exeter
  • Hometown Danvers, Mass.

Biography

2025: Saw the field in ten games this season … Netted a career-high eight goals in 2025, including a career-high four at home versus Dartmouth (3/7) … Also scored goals against Temple (2/26), #7 Michigan (3/1), #17 Loyola Maryland (3/12), and Brown (4/26) … Scooped up ground balls against the Owls and the Greyhounds.

2024: Saw action in 11 games … Scored her only goal on a free position in a win at then-No. 1 Maryland (3/27) … Had an assist in the Quakers’ NCAA quarterfinal loss at Northwestern (5/16) … Had three shots in an Ivy loss at Princeton (4/3) … Had two shots each in wins over the Terrapins as well as wins over Harvard (3/24) and Loyola (4/17) … Had a shot on goal in Ivy win at Cornell (4/13) … Also had a shot in a win over Georgetown (3/12) … Caused a turnover in Ivy-opening win vs. Columbia (3/2).
 
High School: Lettered all four years at Phillips Exeter … Team captain … All-American … Two-time Class A All-NEPSAC … Team MVP … 2021 Exeter Full Fifty Award … Finished senior year with 53 goals, six assists, 22 caused turnovers, 17 ground balls, and 56 draw controls … Also lettered all four years in field hockey and ice hockey … Two-time Class A NEPSAC Honorable Mention in field hockey … High Honors all four years … 2023 Sadler Cup Award … Cum Laude … 2023 Academic Achievement Award in Economics … PG Mentor.
 
Club: Played for Bay State Bullets '21 Silver from 2019-21 … Played for Laxachusetts '23 Black from 2021-22.

Personal: Father Peter played lacrosse and hockey at Harvard, Class of 1992 … Mother Lisa played field hockey at Vermont, Class of 1992 … Brother Kyle rowed at Georgetown, Class of 2022 … Brother Ryan plays hockey at Tufts … Has eight teammates playing lacrosse at Division I including two in the Ivy League: Marymegan Wright (Yale) and Tia Reaman (Princeton) … Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences with an Economics focus.

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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2024Freshman

    Midfield
    5'8"
    19
  • 19

    2025Sophomore

    Attack
    5'8"
    19
  • 19

    2026Junior

    Attack
    5'8"
    19