NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After leading Yale with a team-best five ground balls and nine draw controls in two games, junior midfielder
Fallon Vaughn (Concord, Mass.) has been named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week. The league announced the award Monday afternoon.
Vaughn, who also totaled three goals and one assist for the week, helped Yale to a 16-8 win over then-No. 7 Penn Sunday. That was Yale's largest margin of victory over the Quakers since 2001. The Bulldogs held the Quakers scoreless for two extended stretches: 12:13 from midway through the first quarter until early in the second and 23:25 from early in the second quarter until late in the third quarter. Yale ranks third nationally in scoring defense (7.73 goals allowed per game).
Vaughn, a two-time first team All-Ivy League honoree, is a graduate of Concord-Carlisle High School. She is the second Bulldog to earn a weekly award from the Ivy League this season, joining sophomore defender
Emmy Pascal (Lorton, Va.). Pascal was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Mar. 25.
No. 10 Yale (10-1, 4-0 Ivy League) hosts No. 22 Harvard Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
Yale Women's Lacrosse Ivy League Weekly Award Winners 2024
Mar. 25:
Emmy Pascal (Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week)
Apr. 8:
Fallon Vaughn (Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week)
