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Annika Meyer

Defense
Position
5'6''
Height
Graduate Student
Class
Bel Air, Md.
Hometown
Johns Hopkins University
Previous School
Annika Meyer - Women's Lacrosse - Virginia Cavaliers

AT VIRGINIA

2023
• Started all 18 games on defense
• Finished the year with 23 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers
• Had three draw controls in the first five games of the season
• Tallied four ground balls at Pitt (3/18)
• IWLCA Academic Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• ACC Academic Honor Roll

PRIOR TO VIRGINIA (AT JOHNS HOPKINS)

2022
• Captain
• Started all 19 games and finished with 44 ground balls and 26 caused turnovers
• Led team in ground balls and ranked second in caused turnovers
• Tewaaraton Award Watch List (2022)
• Honorable Mention USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American (2021, 2022)
Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine Preseason All-American (2022)
• Second Team All-Big Ten (2022)
• IWLCA Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2021, 2022)
• Big Ten Academic All-Conference (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch (2022)
• Big Ten All-Tournament Team (2022)

2021
• Started all 15 games and finished with 45 ground balls and 28 caused turnovers
• Led team and ranked second in the Big Ten in ground balls
• Ranked second on the team and third in the league in caused turnovers
• Tied career-high with five ground balls in season-opener versus Rutgers
• Second Team IWLCA All-Mid-Atlantic (2021)
• First Team All-Big Ten (2021)

2020
• Started all seven games
• Led team with 22 ground balls and 13 caused turnovers
• Caused three turnovers and picked up two ground balls in win over Drexel

2019
• Played 18 games and started two in rookie season
• Finished with 10 ground balls and four caused turnovers

HIGH SCHOOL
• Led team to four straight IAAM playoff appearances
• Team captain as a senior
• Led team to IAAM A Conference Championship as a senior
• Voted to wear #1 jersey as unsung hero in honor of Yeardley Love as a senior
• Named IAAM All-Conference and Baltimore Sun First Team All-Metro as a senior
• Played five years with Sky Walkers Lacrosse
• Also played basketball and was a four-year starter
• Team captain and IAAM All-Conference selection as a senior
• Awarded C. Markland Kelly Award as a senior
• Volunteer at Umoja Camp

PERSONAL
• Daughter of Doug and Rosemary Meyer
• Mother played basketball at West Virginia
• Intern at Johns Hopkins Musculoskeletal Center and Georgetown Hospital Kidney Transplant
• Dean’s List student majoring in biology