PUERTO RICO
MONICA NEGRON
Monica Negron, a captain for Puerto Rico, was named the Big East Defender of the Year her senior season at Louisville in 2014. A three-year captain for the Cardinals, she helped the team to its first NCAA tournament berth, advancing to the Sweet 16, and was the school’s first four-time all-region honoree. She earned third team All-America honors her senior season.
SCOTLAND
JENNY AITON
An eight-year veteran of the program, Aiton was Scotland’s leading scorer during the 2017 world championship with 17 points on 10 goals and seven assists. Scotland’s captain, Aiton also had a team-high 24 points (18g, 6a) in helping Scotland to a fifth-place finish at the European championship in 2019.
SPAIN
SARAH QUIGLEY
Quigley is the head coach of the Lycoming women’s lacrosse team for which she played from 2011-2014. She joined the Spanish national team and became captain by 2019, leading Spain to a 4-4 record at the European Championships when she had a team-high 11 goals. At Lycoming, she tallied 55 points and had two game-winning goals.
SWEDEN
TECKLA JACKSON
Jackson, Sweden’s oldest and most experience player, began the women’s program in Sweden. After spending one year in high school in the United States (1986-87), Jackson returned home to Sweden with two lacrosse sticks. The rest is history. Jackson, 51, plays on the national team now with her daughter, Kjälla Jackson who played high school lacrosse in Ohio this spring. Teckla Jackson has played in every European Championship and World Cup that Sweden has competed in.
SWITZERLAND
SALOME BAUMBERGER
Baumberger was instrumental in the founding of women’s lacrosse in Switzerland. Baumberger, who started playing the game as a student at Hopkins High School in Minnesota, started the Wettingen Wild women’s team in 2007. The Wild has gone on to win seven Swiss championships. Baumberger is currently the third-leading scorer in the Swiss women’s field league (24 G, 3 A), where she continues to play for the Wild. She suited up for the Swiss in its 2017 world championship debut, posting five goals and one assist.
UGANDA
DOROTHY NAKATO
The oldest player on the team, Nakato is also the face of Uganda Lacrosse. Nakato is director of Uganda’s Silverbacks Club, which brings the game to primary and secondary school students. She initially joined Team Uganda as an assistant coach, but during scrimmages she shined as the best player on the field and was quickly added to the team’s roster as an attacker. Quite literally, she will be a coach on the field for the team.
UNITED STATES
TAYLOR CUMMINGS
The returning All-World player is the only three-time winner of the Tewaaraton Award in the sport’s history. She was the top point-scorer in the inaugural season of Athletes Unlimited last summer and previously played in the WPLL and UWLX. At the University of Maryland, she was a four-time first team All-American and helped the Terps win two NCAA championships. In high school at the McDonogh School (Md.), her teams lost just one game in her four seasons of varsity play, helping to build what eventually became a national-record 198-game winning streak. For the U.S. team, Cummings helped the U.S. sweep the world championship and the inaugural World Games title in 2017.
WALES
SOPHY COOMBES-ROBERTS
Playing in her third world championship, the veteran attacker was the team’s leading scorer in the 2017 championship in Surrey, England with 12 goals in eight games. She also led the team with 26 shots on goal and was third on the squad with nine draw controls. Earlier this year, Coombes-Roberts relocated to Switzerland for her job and made frequent trips back to Wales in recent months to train with the team in preparation for the world championship.