The D1 women’s lacrosse scoring leaders 2026 set a new standard for offensive production. From a record-tying goal machine in Chapel Hill to a Navy sophomore who made opponents look foolish all season, this was one of the deepest collections of individual offensive talent the college game has ever seen. Here’s a full breakdown of the players who defined the scoring conversation this year — and what the numbers actually mean beyond the stat sheet.
Chloe Humphrey, UNC — The Nation’s Leading Scorer
Let’s start where we have to: 109 goals, 50 assists, 159 points. Chloe Humphrey did not have a season — she had a movement. The UNC attacker tied Madison Taylor’s NCAA single-season goal record set just one year prior. Humphrey finished second all-time in points in a single season, and did it while carrying UNC all the way to the national championship game.
The 159 points aren’t just a number. That’s roughly 7.9 points per game across a full season. It’s a level of sustained offensive production that puts her in a category with maybe five players in the history of the sport. The 50 assists are what separate her from a one-dimensional finisher — Humphrey was actively making the attack better around her, not just hunting goals. On a team that needed her to do everything, she gave them everything.
She won IWLCA Player of the Year, Attacker of the Year, and ACC Player of the Year. She also earned the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player despite being on the losing side of the final. The fact that a player from the losing team earned MOP tells you everything about the gap between Humphrey and everyone else in the building that day in Evanston.
Northwestern won the title. Humphrey won the season.
Madison Taylor, Northwestern — The Best Season Nobody Talked About Enough
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Madison Taylor had 97 goals, 42 assists, and 139 points in 22 games. She spent most of the spring playing second fiddle in the national narrative to Humphrey’s record chase. That’s not a knock on Humphrey — it’s a testament to how ridiculous this year’s top two were.
Taylor won the Tewaaraton Award. Taylor also won the Honda Sport Award. She finished tied with Izzy Scane for the most points in Northwestern program history at 483 career points. She set the NCAA Tournament career points record at 91 over 16 tournament appearances, including 28 in four postseason games this year alone. In the championship game against UNC, she had one goal and six assists. That may be the most efficient six-assist performance in recent memory against the most dangerous offense in the country.
The draw control numbers are the thing that gets lost. Taylor posted 62 draw controls on the season. That made her the only player in the country to crack both 100 points and 50-plus draw controls. She wasn’t just scoring. She was controlling possessions, setting the table, and then eating at it too. That’s a complete player. That’s the Tewaaraton winner.
Alyssa Chung, Navy — The Breakout of the Year
A sophomore scoring 84 goals and 34 assists for 118 total points at a 46.3% shooting clip doesn’t happen quietly. And yet Chung somehow didn’t get the national spotlight she deserved until deep into the season. Navy doesn’t run in the same circles as the power programs, which means the press reps aren’t there and the ESPN clicks aren’t either. But the box scores were there every week.
Chung averaged 3.65 goals per game during the regular season and finished the year with 102 points. That made her just the sixth player in Navy program history to cross the century mark. She was a Tewaaraton finalist. She knocked Syracuse out of the NCAA Tournament in a game where she had four goals including the winner. If you weren’t watching Navy lacrosse this spring, you missed one of the most entertaining individual offensive performers in the entire country.
At the rate she’s going, her junior and senior seasons are going to make the Humphrey conversation look crowded.
Brigid Duffy, Army — The Midfielder Who Owned Her Position
77 goals. 31 assists. 108 points. 46 caused turnovers. Brigid Duffy of Army West Point did things at the midfield position this year that midfielders don’t do. She broke the Patriot League all-time goal record and led all midfielders in caused turnovers nationally. She finished as the IWLCA’s DI Midfielder of the Year by a margin that wasn’t close.
The 46 caused turnovers while also posting 77 goals is the thing. That’s two-way production at a level that most attackers who never have to play defense can’t match. Duffy was selected third overall in the inaugural WLL Draft, which tells you where the professional game thinks she’s headed. She was a Tewaaraton finalist. For a midfielder at a service academy to crack those five spots is something the lacrosse world should be talking about a lot more than it does.
Lauren LaPointe, Maryland — The Breakout Attacker Who Made the Terps Dangerous
Maryland wasn’t supposed to be a national semifinalist this year. They were a good team with question marks, until LaPointe answered most of them. The junior attacker finished with 66 goals, 25 assists, and 91 points. She had the single best individual game performance of the 2026 season — seven goals and 10 points in a road win over No. 7 Johns Hopkins in March.
LaPointe was on the Tewaaraton Watch List, earned Big Ten and national weekly honors four times, and was the engine behind Maryland’s push to the Final Four. When the Terps needed offense in crunch time, she was the one delivering it. She’s a junior. The ceiling here is legitimately sky-high.
The Full D1 Women’s Lacrosse Scoring Picture
What this season proved is that the D1 women’s lacrosse scoring leaders 2026 represented depth the college game has rarely seen. You had Navy and Army cracking the national top-five in individual producers. You had a sophomore and two juniors among the elite offensive players in the country. The next wave isn’t coming — it’s already here.
The Humphrey-Taylor showdown at the top was historic by any measure. Two players with 109 and 97 goals respectively in the same season, both on programs that met in the national final. That doesn’t happen often, and it happened in 2026.
If the 2026 season was a statement about where the women’s game is going, the statement is this: the scoring is only going to get more absurd from here.