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Northwestern needed Madison Taylor to step up. She did way more.

1 week ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images At the start of the 2025 lacrosse season, I spoke with Robyn Rooney, Madison Taylor’s former coach at Wantagh High School. I sought out Rooney, in addition to others associated with Taylor, because I wanted a clearer picture of how Taylor would approach her first season as Northwestern’s top offensive weapon and the expectations that came with it.
Stick Season, Week 15: The grand finale

1 week ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Eric Canha-Imagn Images Northwestern concluded its 2025 season in Foxborough this past weekend, which means this week’s Stick Season column is the last. The Wildcats pulled off arguably their best win of the year in a 12-11 comeback victory over Boston College before ending their season with a 12-8 loss to North Carolina. I won’t spend too long picking apart both matches, but I wanted to end this column on a proper note.
The national title game struck Northwestern’s Achilles’ heel, but it still loved the hard fight

1 week ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Throughout the 2025 season, Northwestern lacrosse constantly faced one million-dollar question: whether it could develop adequate offensive depth. That question was never really addressed. That’s not to discredit the numerous scorers on Northwestern’s team, who had their fair share of strong performances throughout the season.
What can Northwestern expect out of Christian Sarkisian?

1 week ago | insidenu.com | Jacob Hare

Northwestern Athletics With college sports rapidly evolving into a professional-style enterprise—thanks to new Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rules and a wide-open transfer portal—it’s no longer realistic for head coaches to act as the sole CEOs of their teams. Roster construction, recruiting, fundraising, and player branding have each become full-time responsibilities. That’s where the general manager comes in.
Northwestern lacrosse rewrote the script to pull off an improbable comeback

2 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images If the world were determined by chalk and on-paper storylines, Northwestern lacrosse wasn’t supposed to pull off the improbable. All season long, Northwestern’s identity was shaped just as much by what it lost compared to what it had.
Stick Season, Week 14: The home stretch

2 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Northwestern Athletics It’s Final Four eve, and another Stick Season column is out! Due to my massive academic backlog and Northwestern women’s golf’s NCAA championship run, this week’s piece is out a day late, but the amount of lacrosse content doesn’t change. So let’s talk about all things Lake Show, ranging from Northwestern’s 17-12 NCAA quarterfinal win against Penn and Madison Taylor’s NCAA single-season goals record. We’re back in familiar territory.
Women’s lacrosse Top Ten Talk: Final Four Edition

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Brendan Preisman

Photo by Jeffrey A. Camarati/North Carolina Athletics After a thrilling regular season, the NCAA tournament has more than lived up to expectations. The first round was fairly chalky, but chaos erupted across the nation in the second round. Three seeded teams lost before the quarterfinals, and two seeded teams that DID advance did so by only a one-goal margin. Titanic clashes occurred in the quarterfinals, but only four teams remained by the time the dust settled.
The terrifying inevitability of Madison Taylor and Northwestern lacrosse

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Brendan Preisman

When I was growing up in Nebraska (the heart of Tornado Alley), few things scared me more than the thought of a tornado touching down near my house. The worst part about them was that unlike other scary stuff in my 10-year-old brain (homework, sit-down lawn mowers, driving behind log trucks on the highway), there wasn’t really any way to counteract the threat of a tornado. All you could do was pray that you stayed out of its path of destruction.
BREAKING: Madison Taylor breaks NCAA Division I single-season goals record

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Northwestern Athletic A new scoring champion has been crowned. During Northwestern’s NCAA quarterfinal match against Penn on Thursday, junior attacker Madison Taylor scored her 104th goal of the 2025 season, breaking ex-High Point attacker Abby Hormes’ NCAA Division I single-season goals record of 103 from the 2022 season. Taylor set the record in 19 games, matching Hormes’ 2022 game total.
Stick Season, Week 13: Crown her

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Northwestern Athletics It’s NCAA tournament time! After a brief hiatus, Stick Season is back this week to recap Northwestern’s 15-7 win against Michigan. Of course, we’ll start with junior attacker Madison Taylor’s historic 10-goal performance, which broke an NCAA tournament single-game record. We’ll also dive into the Wildcats' ability to bounce back from adversity and its offensive tendencies.