Hanna Bodner & Dani Serrano Lead Marquette Women’s Lacrosse In Big East Awards

The Big East announced the postseason awards for women’s lacrosse on Wednesday, and it was a big day for YOUR Marquette Golden Eagles. We’re going to have to go piece by piece here because we don’t want to overlook anything.

FIRST: Hanna Bodner was named Midfielder of the Year for the second consecutive season AND she was a unanimous choice for the All-Big East First Team!

Here’s the Big East on her Midfielder of the Year award:

Marquette’s Bodner is the fourth consecutive Golden Eagle to be named BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year, following her own honor in 2025, Leigh Steiner (2024) and Lydia Foust (2023). Bodner finished the regular season with 34 goals, seven assists, 27 ground balls, 14 caused turnovers and a team-high 72 draw controls.

And the MU release:

Graduate midfielder Hanna Bodner was a unanimous First Team All‑BIG EAST selection for the second straight season and earned her second consecutive BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year award. Bodner continued a run of Marquette midfielders winning the league honor for the fourth straight season, following Leigh Steiner in 2024 and Lydia Foust in 2023, and became the fifth Golden Eagle midfielder to receive the award. She finished the season with 34 goals and 41 points, ranking among the league’s top midfield scorers, while leading the BIG EAST with 72 draw controls. Bodner ranked among conference leaders in draws per game, ground balls and caused turnovers, adding 27 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers. 

NEXT: Dani Serrano was a unanimous selection as both Freshman of the Year AND as a First Team All-Big East honoree!

The Big East:

Serrano is the first Golden Eagle since 2019 to win BIG EAST Freshman of the Year. She led Marquette’s offense, recording 67 points on 30 goals and 37 assists. The freshman earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honors five times this season.

Marquette:

Freshman attacker Dani Serrano earned unanimous First Team All‑BIG EAST honors and became the program’s second BIG EAST Freshman of the Year recipient, joining Shea Garcia in 2019. Serrano was the first freshman in Marquette history to earn First Team All‑BIG EAST recognition and the second freshman overall to be named All‑BIG EAST. She led the conference with 37 assists and 67 points, adding 30 goals while starting all 15 games. Serrano ranked first in the BIG EAST in assists per game and points per game and also topped the conference in shooting percentage at .588 among players with double‑digit goals. 

AND SOMEHOW WE ARE NOT DONE YET.

Four more Golden Eagles earned all-conference honors from the Big East. Tess Osburn was named to the First Team, while Sofia Santana, Riley Jenkins and Gabby Windesheim are on the Second Team.

Let’s go to the Marquette press release on all four, as the league’s release can’t talk about every single player that was honored:

Senior attacker Tess Osburn was named First Team All‑BIG EAST for the first time, and earned a third-straight All-BIG EAST award after earning Second Team honors in both 2024 and 2025. Osburn led Marquette and ranked second in the BIG EAST with 40 goals, finishing among the league’s top five with 56 points. The senior also lead Marquette in shots and shots on goal during her final season. 

Senior defender Sofia Santana earned the first All‑BIG EAST honor of her career with a Second Team selection after anchoring Marquette’s defense. Santana ranked second in the BIG EAST with 24 caused turnovers and added 23 ground balls while starting all 15 games. She helped Marquette finish first in the conference in caused turnovers per game and consistently matched up against opponents’ top attacking threats throughout the season. 

Junior midfielder Riley Jenkins collected the first All‑BIG EAST honor of her career with a Second Team selection following a productive two‑way season. Jenkins finished with 22 goals and 24 points, ranking among Marquette’s top scorers. She added 26 draw controls, eight ground balls and nine caused turnovers. 

Freshman draw specialist Gabby Windesheim earned Second Team All‑BIG EAST honors, becoming the third freshman in program history to receive All‑BIG EAST recognition. Windesheim is the first Marquette draw control specialist to earn all‑conference honors since Mary Blee in 2022 and just the second draw specialist in program history to be named All‑BIG EAST. She totaled 31 draw controls, ranking second on the team and among the BIG EAST’s top freshmen at the position, while starting all 15 games during her rookie campaign. 

Wanna watch head coach Meredith Black announce all of this to the team?

The six all-conference honorees ties a program record for a season, matching both 2022 and 2023. The pair of individual honors for Bodner and Serrano is just the second time in program history that the Golden Eagles have snagged two in the same season.

The rest of the individual honors went precisely as expected, at least according to my picks. Denver’s Olivia Ripple and Lexi Gwaku picked up Attack Player of the Year and Goalkeeper of the Year, while UConn’s Abby Beran was named Defensive Player of the Year. I guess figuring the awards out this year was pretty straight forward, as I got 11 of my all-conference team picks correct as well. Was this made easier because the league put 18 women on the First Team and I only picked 13 because I stuck to a team you’d put on the field plus a draw specialist? Who’s to say? I will say that my only two misses were on the defensive end of the field, and that’s often times just a shot in the dark anyway. All I have is stats and Defensive Player of the Week awards to try to figure it out, and the coaches are the ones actually game planning against the defenders, so they clearly know a lot more on the topic.

Marquette returns to action on Thursday evening when they tangle with Denver in the Big East tournament semifinals. First draw is set for 5pm Central, and the preview for that game is already up on the site!

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