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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2020 Women's Lacrosse

Greg Carroccio
Hunter Martin

00 Mikaila Cheeseman

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Suffern
  • Hometown Suffern, N.Y.

Biography

Honors
2019 Second-Team All-Ivy
2019 IWLCA Academic Honor Roll
2018 Ivy League Regular Season Champion
2018 Honorable Mention Inside Lacrosse All-American
2018 Honorable Mention All-Ivy
IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week (March 14, 2018; March 4, 2019)
Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (March 5, 2018; March 12, 2018; Feb. 25, 2019; March 4, 2019)


2020: All 2020 Ivy League spring sports were canceled on Wednesday, March 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 … Missed season due to injury.

2019: Second-team All-Ivy ... IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week (March 4) ... Two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (Feb. 25 and March 4) ... IWLCA Academic Honor Roll ... Played and started in all 18 games ... Totaled 828:20 minutes in goal ... Finished the year with a GAA of 10.65 ... Posted a save percentage of .458 ... Boasted five games with at least 10 saves ... Went 11-5 on the year ... Opened the year with nine saves at Delaware (Feb. 16) ... Collected 12 saves in Penn's overtime win over #17 Johns Hopkins (Feb. 23) ... Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for her performance against the Bluejays ... Finished with just three goals allowed against both Rutgers (Feb. 27) and Yale (March 2), earning defensive player of the week accolades from both the IWLCA and Ivy League ... Totaled 14 saves, including a game-winning stop with 10 seconds left, in Penn's win over #21 Georgetown (March 9) ... Totaled nine saves against #15 Duke (March 16) and 10 against Cornell (March 23) in complete-game efforts ... Notched 10 saves against #24 Dartmouth (April 13) ... Recorded 14 saves, tying a season high, against the Big Green in the Ivy League Tournament (May 3) ... Finished with eight saves against Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament (May 5) ... Totaled 16 ground balls on the year, including a season-high three against Dartmouth in the regular season.

2018: Honorable mention Inside Lacrosse All-American ... Honorable mention All-Ivy ... IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week (March 14) ... Two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (March 5 and March 12) ... Led the Ivy League with 157 saves ... No. 2 in the Ivy League in save percentage (.450) ... No. 3 in the Ivy League in GAA (11.39) ... Had eight games with 10+ saves ... Appeared in 19 games, starting the final 16 ... Posted a 12-5 record ... Made four saves in second half to earn win against Johns Hopkins (Feb. 23) ... Made seven saves while allowing three goals in second half against Rutgers (Feb. 28) ... Stopped 10 shots and allowed four goals in start at Cornell (March 3) … Made eight saves in win at Drexel (March 6) ... Stopped 10 shots and allowed six goals in win at Georgetown (March 10) ... Made 14 saves in win at Duke (March 17) ... Stopped 14 shots against Maryland (March 22) ... Made 11 saves against Northwestern (April 1) ... Had six saves while allowing four goals against Columbia (April 14) ... Made nine saves in win at Yale (April 28) ... Stopped 11 shots in Ivy League Tournament win over Dartmouth (May 4) ... Stopped 13 shots, including two in overtime, against Penn State in NCAA Tournament win (May 11).

2017: Appeared in two games ... Played 33:58 in goal ... Made five saves while allowing six goals over her two appearances ... Had three saves against Dartmouth (April 8) ... Made two stops against Yale (April 30).

High School:
All-American ... Five-time letterwinner ... Served as team captain ... Three-time League, Section, and Region champion ... Three-time All-Section selection ... Four-time All-County selection ... Four-time All-League selection ... National Honor Society member ... Italian Honor Society member ... SADD Club member ... Volunteered with Make-A-Wish Foundation ... Volunteer Youth Lacrosse coach.

Personal:
Daughter of Gina Persichetti and Edward Cheeseman ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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