Five other Wildcats honored by league
Allendale, Mich. – Six student-athletes from the NMU women’s lacrosse team were honored with All-GLIAC postseason awards, with two named First Team All-GLIAC and Josie Lakosky being named GLIAC Attacker of the year.
Lakosky and Katelyn Wozney were named First Team All-GLIAC, Maddi Bast and Dayna Carlson were named to the Second Team All-GLIAC, and Norah Bates and Sophie Langsdale earned All-GLIAC Honorable Mention status.
After being named the GLIAC Freshman of the Year just last season, the Victoria, Minnesota native Josie Lakosky has been named the 2025 GLIAC Attacker of the Year along with first team all-conference honors. The sophomore is having a record-breaking season for the Wildcats, setting career-highs in almost every statistical category in fewer games played, and breaking the NMU single-game point record twice in a three-game stretch. The attacker earned GLIAC weekly honors four times this season and was named the IWLCA National Co-Offensive Player of the Week thanks to her 13-point outing, which ranks sixth nationally and just two points behind the highest single-game point total in all of DII women’s lacrosse this year. Across all competitions this season, Lakosky paced the conference in goals (66), goals per game (3.88), points (85), points per game (5.00), shots (161), shots per game (9.47), is second in draw controls (75) and draw controls per game (4.41), and is third in total assists (19). Among conference-only statistics, Lakosky led the GLIAC in goals per game (3.63), shots (87), and shots per game (10.88). Lakosky can also be found atop multiple categories in single-game highs across the conference, including the two highest single-game point totals, eight of the top ten single-game shot totals, four of the top six single-game goals, and the most assists in a single game.
Wozney, who was just honored as the NMU Female Newcomer of the Year at the 2025 Wildcat Awards, is an integral part of the Wildcats’ faceoff scheme. The Wildcats lead the conference in draw controls, with a major part of that success running through Wozney, as the freshman is third in the GLIAC in individual draw controls.
A Maple Grove, Minnesota native, senior Bast ends her Wildcat career with a fourth-consecutive Second Team All-GLIAC honor. The attacker turned defender turned midfielder is a critical part of the Wildcat success, as she is fourth on the team in goals and points and is one of just two Wildcats with 25+ goals, 19+ ground balls, and 7+ caused turnovers.
The heartbeat of the Wildcat defense, Carlson ends her career with a third-consecutive All-GLIAC team honor, earning places on the first, second, and honorable-mention teams. Carlson is one of the ‘Cats most important defenders, as she leads NMU in caused turnovers, is one of only four Wildcats to have double digits in both ground balls and turnovers, and the only Wildcat to have 20+ GBs and 17+ CTs.
After four seasons as a stalwart on the back end, the Stillwater, Minnesota native Bates earns her first All-GLIAC honor as a member of the honorable mention team. A critical part of the Wildcat defense, Bates is second to Carlson in caused turnovers, and is one of the four Wildcats to have double digits in both ground balls and turnovers.
A breakthrough for the Wildcats, the sophomore from Rochester, Minnesota, Langsdale earns her first All-GLIAC honor, on the honorable mention team. Like Carlson and Bates, she is one of the four Wildcats to have double digits in both ground balls and turnovers, and is the only other Wildcat not named Lakosky to have double-digit goals and points to go along with the double-digit ground balls and caused turnovers.
