DENVER - The [12/14] University of Denver women's lacrosse team wraps up its last roadtrip of the regular season with a neutral-site matchup against [10] Yale on Monday at 11 a.m. MT at St. Joseph's University.

SERIES HISTORY: Denver won the only previous meeting between the two teams by a score of 22-10 on March 17, 2015 at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.

2024 CAPTAINS:
• The Pioneers selected graduate students Sam Thacker and Julia Gilbert, seniors Anna Palmisano and Sloane Kipp and redshirt junior Raegan Wilson as their 2024 captains.
• The 2023 National Defender of the Year Sam Thacker owns the program record for career caused turnovers at 184.
• Gilbert, led the Pioneers with 59 goals and 67 points last season. She was recognized as an IL and USA Lacrosse Magazine Second-Team All American, a member of the Tewaaraton Award Watch List, All-Big East First Team and IWLCA West/Midwest Region Second team honoree.
• Palmisano brings experience to the 'hot pink' defense and has started in every game the last three seasons.
• Kipp was third on the DU squad last season with 57 shots on goal and a .429 shooting percentage with three game-winning goals during the 2023 Championship Weekend run.
• Before missing the second half of the season with an injury, Wilson earned 17 goals and four assists.

WORK IN THE DRAW CIRCLE
• Denver has a 191-159 advantage in the draw circle this season. • Senior draw specialist Abby Jenkins leads the Pioneers with 63 this season. • Jenkins hauled in 10 in the Pioneers win over Butler on April 10, her first double-digit output this season and the eighth of her career.

PENOYER THE DISTRIBUTOR
• Yale graduate student transfer Olivia Penoyer leads the team and is ranked 14th in the country in assists with 36.
• Penoyer has 3+ assists in eight games this season.
• Penoyer had back-to-back five assist games in BIG EAST wins over Marquette (April 6) and at Bulter (April 10), one shy of her career-high six which she produced three times in her time with the Bulldogs.
• In her career at Yale, Penoyer broke Yale's career assists record, finishing her time in New Haven with 106 in her career.
• Among active players in NCAA Division I women's lacrosse, Penoyer ranks fifth in career assists with 142.

LIMITING SHOT ATTEMPTS
• Denver held Butler to just 13 shots on April 10 in Indianapolis.
• It was the lowest shots allowed for the Pioneers since holding Georgetown to 10 on April 22, 2023.
• The Georgetown total last season was Denver's lowest since allowing just eight shots at Coastal Carolina on March 11, 2020, the final game before the COVID-19 Pandemic.

CASHING IN ON FREE-POSITIONS
• Denver went 4-for-5 from the free-position arc on April 14 vs Arizona State, the program's second best free position percentage this season. The four FPS tallies matched Denver's 4-for-4 day against Colorado on April 3.
• The Pioneers finished with as many as 8 free-position goals twice last season.

WOMAN-UP TALLIES
• Denver scored six times in woman-up situations on February 25 against San Diego State, its most in a game in the program's Division I history.
• The Pioneers have finished with 4+ woman-up goals four times in 2024 (chart on right), more than the rest of its DI history combined.

FORCING TURNOVERS
• Denver has had double digit caused turnovers in 11 games this season.
• The Pioneers finished with double-digit caused turnovers in all but one game last season (4/8/23 at UConn).

UP NEXT: The Pioneers wrap up Big East play against Xavier on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. MT at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.

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