UNC women’s lacrosse freshman earns Tewaaraton Award as nation’s top player

The awards continue to pile up for UNC women’s lacrosse freshman Chloe Humphrey.

Less than a week after joining her sisters — and the rest of her teammates — in winning the 2025 national championship to cap an unbeaten season, and barely 24 hours after being named the IWLCA Player of the Year, Humphrey earned the Tewaaraton Award, known as the Heisman of college lacrosse.

The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and female college lacrosse players in the United States.

Humphrey learned the news Thursday night at the Tewaaraton Foundation Banquet at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is UNC’s first Tewaaraton winner.

Humphrey is not only the first freshman to win the Tewaaraton Award on the women’s side, she was the first freshman to be named a finalist in the award’s history.

Chloe’s sister, Ashley, a UNC grad student, was also a finalist for the award, marking the third time UNC had two people among the finalists. Taylor Moreno and Jamie Ortega were both finalists in 2021, while Ortega was joined by Ally Mastroianni in 2022.

Chloe Humphrey had 90 goals and 28 assists for 118 points this season. Her 90 goals set a new NCAA freshman record, a UNC single-season record, and helped lead the Tar Heels to their fourth national title.

A first-team All-American, Humphrey also earned first-team All-ACC honors, ACC Tournament MVP, and NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player. She recorded hat tricks in 18 of 22 games, including nine performances with five or more goals.

Ashley Humphrey had a hand in many of her sister’s goals, scoring 31 goals to go with 90 assists for 121 points.

The three other finalists on the women’s side were Rachel Clark and Shea Dolce of Boston College, and Madison Taylor of Northwestern.

CJ Krist of Cornell won the Tewaaraton Award for men’s lacrosse. Jackson Eicher of Army, Chris Kavanagh of Notre Dame, Sam King of Harvard and Coulter Mackesy of Princeton were the other four men’s finalists.

Founded at the University Club of Washington, D.C., the award was first presented in 2001 with permission from the Mohawk Nation Council of Elders. “Tewaaraton” is the Mohawk word for lacrosse, and The Tewaaraton Award symbolizes lacrosse’s Native American Heritage.

This story was originally published May 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM with the headline "UNC women’s lacrosse freshman earns Tewaaraton Award as nation’s top player."