2015 Women's Lacrosse

15 Erin Magnuson

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

Biography

2015 (Senior): Led team in assists and was second on team in points (15-13-28), career highs in both categories ... Had 13 ground balls, three draw controls and five caused turnovers ... Season-high five points (2-3-5) Mar. 1 in 12-8 win vs. Canisius ... Appeared in 14 games (all starts) ... Had at least one point in eight straight games at start of season.

2014 (Junior): Led team in shooting percentage (.513) ... Third on team in goals (20, a career high) and added five assists ... Had hat tricks against Holy Cross Feb. 22, at Princeton Apr. 5 and at Cornell Apr. 19 ... Had three assists in 17-6 win vs. Cal Mar. 28 ... Had a seven-game point-scoring streak Feb. 22 through Mar. 22 ... Tied for third on team in caused turnovers (14, a career high) ... 17 ground balls ... Appeared in all 15 games for the third straight season, starting 14.

2013 (Sophomore): Fourth on team in goals with 19 and points with 25 ... Shot .500, second on team ... 15 ground balls ... 14 draw controls ... Started all 15 games for the second straight season ... Hat trick Apr. 24 vs. BU.

2012 (Freshman): Six goals, two assists ... Started all 15 games ... Fifth on team in ground balls with 21.

High school: Captained lacrosse and soccer teams as a senior … Teammates with current Yale teammate Devon Rhodes … 2011 Curt Sweeney Award winner for scholarship and athletic prowess … All-county in lacrosse as a senior… Honorable mention all-county in lacrosse as a junior … Earned Coaches Awards in both lacrosse and soccer as a senior … US Lacrosse Academic All-American in 2010 and 2011 … Wendy’s High School Heisman in 2010 … Suffolk County Zone Award in 2010 … All-league in lacrosse in 2009 … US School Girls National Lacrosse Team member in 2009 … Tiger Award, all-league and all-academic in soccer 2010 … Lacrosse team was state Class A champions and Long Island champions in 2011, and won Suffolk County championship for the second year in a row.

Club teams: Played for 2011 Yellow Jackets Blue and Empire State Team.

Notes: Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Summer Analyst ... Summer Intern at Tommy Hilfiger ... Volunteer with Inner City Lacrosse, which teaches lacrosse to underprivileged girls in New Haven ... Also volunteered with Ivy''s Against ALS and Wounded Warrior Project ... A Mid-Winter Night’s Dream committee member, raised more than $2 million dollars for ALS Research … On swim team in summer … Father, Peter, played lacrosse at Geneseo and coached former Yale men’s lacrosse player Kevin Discepolo ’09 in high school … Mother’s cousin, Andrew Euston, is a 1956 Yale graduate.

Why Yale? “Once I stepped onto Yale’s campus I knew it was going to be a perfect fit for me. I was able to attend a class and get a glimpse of all of the new things I would be exposed to. The coaches were supportive and encouraging and the team was friendly and welcoming. Attending Yale means that I will have endless opportunities to grow.”

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