Army Black Knights women's lacrosse

The Army Black Knights women's lacrosse team is an NCAA Division I college lacrosse team representing the United States Military Academy as part of the Patriot League. They play their home games at Michie Stadium in West Point.

A women's lacrosse game between Army and Navy at Michie Stadium in 2023

Army Black Knights women's lacrosse
Founded	2016
University	United States Military Academy
Head coach	Michelle Tumolo (since 2021 season)
Stadium	Michie Stadium (capacity: 38,000)
Location	West Point, NY
Conference	Patriot League
Nickname	Black Knights
Colors	Black, gold, and gray[1]
NCAA Tournament appearances
2023, 2025
Conference regular season championships
North Division: 2021

Head coach

The Black Knights were led by coach Kristen Skiera, who was named the team's inaugural head coach prior to the 2016 season. Prior to assuming the duties of Army's NCAA Division I program, Skiera was the coach of Army's club team for its final year.

Michelle Tumolo was named head coach in June 2021.^[2] Prior to becoming the head coach at Army, Tumolo spent three seasons as the head coach at Wagner Seahawks.

Individual career records

Reference:^[3]

Record	Amount	Player	Years
Goals	131	Jackie Brattan	2018–21
Assists	86	Kathleen Sullivan	2020–23
Points	181	Kathleen Sullivan	2020-23
Ground balls	99	Samantha Stewart	2017–20
Draw controls	223	Samantha Stewart	2017–20
Caused turnovers	63	Lauren Bradenburg	2018–21
Saves	390	Maddie Burns	2017–20
Save %*	.526	Brooke Allen	2019–22
GAA**	10.7	Maddie Burns	2017–20

*Minimum 20 saves
**Minimum 500 minutes

Individual single-season records

Record	Amount	Player	Year
Goals	63	Jackie Brattan	2019
Assists	44	Kathleen Sullivan	2023
Points	95	Allison Reilly	2024
Ground balls	43	Kayla Rowley Brigid Duffy	2016 2024
Draw controls	114	Julia Franzoni	2023
Caused turnovers	28	Brigid Duffy	2024
Saves	141	Lacey Bartholomay	2022
Save %*	.506	Maddie Burns	2020
GAA**	10.65	Maddie Burns	2018

*Minimum 20 saves
**Minimum 250 minutes

Individual game records

Record	Amount	Player	Date
Goals	9	Allison Reilly	4/22/23
Assists	7	Kathleen Sullivan	3/18/23
Points	10	Kathleen Sullivan	3/18/23
Ground balls	7 (3)	Maddie Burns (1), Maddie Burns (2), Samantha Stewart	3/8/17, 4/19/17, 2/15/20
Draw controls	14	Julia Franzoni	2/11/23
Caused turnovers	6	Malina Hatton	3/9/22
Saves	19	Lacey Bartholomay	2/16/23
Goals Allowed*	4 (2)	Maddie Burns (1), Maddie Burns (2)	2/11/17, 2/13/20

*Minimum 30 minutes played & 10 shots faced

Team Captains

Reference:^[4]

Year	Captains
2016	Erin Jollota, Shelby Lindsay, Leah Wasserman
2017	Erin Jollota, Shelby Lindsay, Amy Johnston, Kiersten Spencer
2018	Amy Johnston, Kiersten Spencer
2019	Maddie Burns, Nia Crump, Rilee Scott
2020	Samantha Stewart, Taylor Korpela, Maddie Burns, Rilee Scot
2021	Megan Raftery, Jackie Brattan, Hannah Slomkowski
2022	Brooke Allen, Ceara Sweeney, Sidney Weigand
2023	Evelyn Pickett, Jolie Riedell, Kathleen Sullivan, Sidney Weigand
2024	Lacey Bartholomay, Madeline Lenkart, Sofia Micklovic

Seasons

Statistics overview

Season	Coach	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
NCAA Division I (Patriot League) (2016–present)
2016	Kristen Skiera	5-12	0-9	10th
2017	Kristen Skiera	5-12	1-8	T-9th
2018	Kristen Skiera	10-7	4-5	T-6th
2019	Kristen Skiera	14-5	6-3	T-3rd
2020	Kristen Skiera	7-0	0-0	T-1st
2021	Kristen Skiera	5-4	5-2	1st (North)
2022	Michelle Tumolo	12-6	7-1	T-2nd
2023	Michelle Tumolo	15-4	8-1	2nd	NCAA First Round
2024	Michelle Tumolo	9-8	7-2	3rd
Total:		82-58 (.586)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion