NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. - Susquehanna University's women's lacrosse team received great news from the IWLCA with the program being named to the Honor Squad and three student-athletes chosen for the Honor Roll. The River Hawks were one of 383 schools across NCAA Divisions I, II, and III named to the Honor Squad for possessing a team GPA of 3.2 or greater for the academic year. Rachel Barattucci, Allie Kutler, and Kimberly Nagengast were three out of 1,284 honorees nationwide across 201 different institutions to earn Honor Roll status, having earned a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or greater. For Kutler and Nagengast, this is the latest academic honors they received, having earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District earlier this summer. 

Susquehanna enjoyed a great season filled with many redeeming qualities. The vast departure of talent last season would have made it easy for the River Hawks to look at 2025 as a rebuilding year, but a late season surge put many teams in the Landmark on notice as the team finished with a 5-4 conference record. In the regular-season finale against Elizabethtown in a battle of two teams with a 4-4 league mark, Susquehanna put the hurt on the blue birds with a 14-7 victory, giving them the Landmark Tournament opening round matchup they craved as the fifth seed and traveling to Moravian, a team that had beaten them back in March by a 14-6 score. This time around the Greyhounds were stunned to find the River Hawks out in front early 4-0, and even though a comeback tied things up at 6-6 at halftime it was all Susquehanna in the second half. They tallied seven more goals and shut Moravian out the entire fourth quarter in the convincing 13-8 playoff win.