2023 Women's Lacrosse Roster
Biography
2023:
- Named the NEC Offensive Player of the Year and to First Team All-NEC
- Selected as the NEC Tournament MVP
- Earned back-to-back NEC Offensive Player of the Weeks (3/13, 3/27)
- Started all 19 games for SHU
- Scored 71 points on 55 goals and 16 assists
- Won 15 draw controls
- Picked up 10 ground balls
- Scored season-high seven goals and became the program’s All-Time Division I goal leader against New Hampshire (3/8)
- Became the program’s All-Time Division I Points leader against Merrimack (4/29)
- Eclipsed 200 career points at CCSU (3/29)
- Recorded five goals and a career-high four assists against FDU (4/15)
- Matched career-high four draw controls against Brown (3/11)
2022:
- Named Second Team All-NEC.
- Started all 16 contests for the Pioneers.
- SHU’s leading scorer with 62 points on 47 goals and 15 assists while registering 15 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers.
- Matched season-high eight goals against Saint Francis (4/30).
- Notched 100th career goal at Fairfield (3/19).
- Recorded season-high eight goals against Iona (3/2).
- Matched career-high four draw controls against Bryant (3/30).
- Matched career-high three caused turnovers against CCSU (4/9). Â
- Posted career-high three caused turnovers at Howard (4/2).
2021:
- Played and started in 12 games
- Produced 38 points on a team-leading 31 goals and seven assists
- Grabbed 11 ground balls, won 10 draw controls and caused four turnovers
- Matched her season-high six points three times
- Season-high five goals, four ground balls and two caused turnovers against CCSU (3/10)
- Season-high two assists against Merrimack (3/24)
- Matched season-high five goals while winning three draw controls at CCSU (4/21)
- Named to IWLCA Academic Honor Roll
2020:
- Appeared in six games (started in five)
- Led the Pioneers in goals with 12 and second on team points with 15.Â
- Three goals and two assists at Bucknell (2/08)
- Held in-check as she didn't register a point and finished with two shots (one on-target) against Monmouth (2/15)
- Found the net twice for the Pioneers against Iona (3/03)
- Put the Pioneers on the board with a FPG at 27:57 against Iona (3/03)
- Tallied five points in the win against Delaware State (3/06)
- Found the net twice for the Pioneers against Delaware State (3/06)
- Led the Pioneers on the offensive front with a hat-trick scoring three goal against Manhattan (3/11)
2019:
- All-NEC Second Team selection
- NEC All-Rookie Team
- Four-time NEC Rookie of the Week (3/25, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22)
- NEC Co-Player of the Week (4/15)
- Played in 15 games (10 starts) in her rookie season
- Became the Pioneers’ first NEC All-Rookie Team selection since Avery Farhat back in 2015 and the first to earn All-Rookie and All-NEC Second Team honors in the same season since Kelly Keenan in 2012
- Led the NEC with four Rookie of the Week awards
- Became the first NEC player since 2015 to win three straight Rookie of the Week awards as Werlau went on a three-week run from April 8-22
- Set a SHU rookie records with 45 points and 38 goals across her 15 games played
- Added 16 draw controls (third-highest mark on the team) and went 13-for-27 on free position shots
- Made her mark with a massive nine-goal outing in an overtime loss at LIU Brooklyn (4/14) that set a SHU single-game record
- Her nine goals scored against the Blackbirds is tied for the second-highest single-game total by any player in the NCAA in 2019
- Tallied seven hat tricks and eight multi-goal games in 2019
- Ranked second in the NEC in free position goals per game (0.87) while ranking sixth in the NEC in free position percentage (.481), seventh in goals per game (2.53), fifth in shots per game (6.47) and fourth in shots-on-goal per game (4.80)
- In NEC play, Werlau racked up 28 points (25 goals, three assists) in seven games as she tied for first in the conference in goals per game (3.57) and was seventh in points per game (4.00) in conference-only play
- Notched her first career goal while adding three draw controls against New Hampshire (2/22)
- Posted her first career hat trick with three goals at Vermont (3/2)
- Tallied four goals and one assist with a season-high four draw controls at Fairfield (3/20)
- Went for three goals at Hofstra (3/23)
- Broke through for four goals against Bryant (4/5)
- Totaled five goals and one assist for six points to go along with two ground balls and one caused turnover in a home win over CCSU (4/7)
- Registered six points (four goals, two assists) against Saint Francis U (4/20)
- Posted two goals with three draw controls at Mount St. Mary’s (4/26)
Prior to SHU: Played varsity soccer and lacrosse for North Salem High School ... Captained lacrosse team in her junior and senior seasons as well as the soccer team in her senior year ... Named 2018 All-Section for lacrosse in her senior season ... Three-time All-Section Honorable Mention in lacrosse (2015-17).Â
Personal: Daughter of Ben and Chris Werlau ... Has two siblings, Christian and Paige ... Mother Chris played soccer at SUNY Cortland ... Brother Christian played lacrosse at Stevens Institute of Technology ... Sister paige played lacrosse for SUNY Albany ... Majoring in Accounting.
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Historical Player Information
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2019First Year
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5'6"
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2020Sophomore
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5'6"
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2023Graduate Student
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5'6"