2024 Lacrosse Roster
Roster
Kayla Martello
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Attack
- Height:
- 5-8
- Hometown:
- Rockville Centre, N.Y.
- High School:
- Sacred Heart Academy
AS A SENIOR (2024)
Played and started in all 23 games, finishing her career with 69 consecutive starts ... ACC All-Academic ... IWLCA Second-Team All-Northeast Region ... USA Lacrosse/IWLCA Offensive Player of the Week .. NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player ... NCAA All-Tournament Team ... second on the team with a career-high 68 goals - also good for third in the ACC and 13th in the nation ... scored a goal in 50 straight games ... her 76 points is a career high ... increased her point total every season ... registered 16 hat tricks ... the 21 goals through the ACC and NCAA Tournament (seven games) was a team best ... scored a career-high six goals with one assist for a personal-high seven points in the ACC championship win over Syracuse (4/28), with four coming in the second half ... also scored five times in the national title win over Northwestern (5/26), sparking the comeback from 6-0 ... was named the Most Outstanding Player for her performance ... scored 11 goals in the two championship contests ... finished seventh all-time in school history with 180 goals and reached the 200-point milestone (201) ... finished a stellar career with 76 wins, two national titles, two ACC championships and four consecutive appearances in the NCAA championship and semifinal rounds ... was nominated for the "Best Championship Performance" at the 2024 ESPYs.
AS A JUNIOR (2023)
Played and started in all 23 games … Inside Lacrosse All-American … second on the team with a career-high 61 goals … her personal-high 68 points was fourth on the team … fifth in the ACC and 20th in the nation in goals … scored a goal in all 23 games, extending her streak of scoring a goal in 27 straight games dating back to 2021 … totaled a career-high five goals in three different games … registered a hat trick in 10 different games … scored four points with three goals and one assist in the ACC Championship (4/28) … tallied the game-winning goal in the Final Four win against Syracuse (5/26) … also netted four goals in the road win against the Orange (4/20).
Started in all 23 games ... fourth on the team with 45 goals, which was a 39-goal increase from her freshman season ... fifth on the team with 51 points ... fired in a career-high four goals in three different games ... her six points (4 G, 2 A) at Virginia (2/23) is a personal best ... tallied at least one point in 13 straight games ... recorded nine goals in the NCAA Tournament, including four against Loyola Maryland (5/19) ... netted nine hat tricks.
AS A FRESHMAN (2021)
Appeared in 15 games … Scored six goals on the year … Scored twice against Virginia on March 13 … Scored in three-straight games in the NCAA Tournament against Fairfield, Temple and Notre Dame.
BEFORE BC
Played lacrosse, basketball and volleyball at Sacred Heart Academy … Newsday Top-100 lacrosse players … 2020 Sister Virginia Crawley Athlete of the Year … Two-year varsity lacrosse captain … 2018 Catholic League lacrosse champions … National Honor Society member … Father, Tom, played lacrosse at Rutgers from 1982-86.
