IWLCA NATIONAL DEFENDER OF THE YEAR! 🧱🥍 Congratulations to Caroline Messer of the NCAA Champion Middlebury women’s lacrosse team on earning IWLCA National Defender Player of the Year! #MiddLacrosse #NationalDefenderoftheYear [[📸: Will Costello]] 🫡 Becomes the second Panther in the last five years to log the national honor 🥇 Earned All-American First Team, All-Region and NESCAC First Team honors alongside anchoring a defensive unit that slotted second in the country with 5.17 goals allowed per game 🔝 Led the squad with 47 caused turnovers, which slots second in a single season