USA Lacrosse Magazine Staff

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Public schools produce some of the most competitive teams and top players in the country. Here's our National Top 25 and Regional Top 10 lists for the second week of the 2026 season.

Public schools produce some of the most competitive teams and top players in the country. Here are our National Top 25 and Regional Top 10 lists for Week 2 of the 2026 season.

Sophia Buffardi, Kelsey Young, Maison Van den Bossche, Charlotte Cook and Sadie Ghali have earned USA Lacrosse High School Girls' Player of the Week honors.

Cepiel, Nash, Vu, Saylor, Armstrong lift teams with offensive play to headline this week's crop of high school boys' lacrosse honorees.

Episcopal Academy (Pa.) beat Lawrenceville (N.J.) and Episcopal Dallas (Texas) defeated Bullis (Md.). Both are on the rise in the USA Lacrosse High School Boys' Regional Top 10 rankings.

The New York duo are the only newcomers in any region in this week's USA Lacrosse High School Girls' Regional Top 10 rankings, presented by CWENCH Hydration.

The Richmond Spiders are No. 1 in the country.

Maryland kept its unbeaten streak alive to move into the No. 1 spot in the USA Lacrosse Top 20.

Thirteen players were added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List.