Colorado Springs, CO --- WPI Field Hockey standouts Myles Lakin (Reading, MA), Lauren Meinhold (Boxboro, MA) and Eve Martineau (Greene, ME) were all named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Region I First Team as announced by the NFHCA in early December.
This year over 192 Division III student-athletes have been named to the NFHCA Division III All-Region teams. Division III teams are separated into six regions: Region I, Region II, Region III, Region IV, Region V, and Region VI. Each of these regions recognizes up to 16 student-athletes on both the first team and the second team.
Meinhold returns to the all-region team for the second-consecutive season as she led the Engineers with 10 goals and five assists including three game-winning goals as she started in all 21 games for the Crimson and Gray in 2025. The graduate student midfielder capped her career with 27 goals and 26 assists for 80 points in 77 starts of 78 games played for WPI en route to pulling in three All-NEWMAC postseason honors and being named recently to the NFHCA Division III senior team.
Martineau, a senior midfielder, reigns as a three-time all-region team selection in 2025 after accounting for a pair of goals and assists this fall for the Engineers as she earned her third-career NEWMAC All-Conference postseason team selection and joins Meinhold with a spot on the 2025 NFHCA Division III senior team. The senior captain concluded her career with 10 goals and nine assists and four game-winners as Martineau started in all 79 games throughout her stint with the Crimson and Gray.
WPI's star goalkeeper joins the All-Region team for the first time in his career after a strong sophomore stint leading to being selected as the 2025 NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year. Lakin took over as the starting netminder in the cage for the Crimson and Gray, logging 14 wins, the most for a WPI goalkeeper since 2018. The Reading native anchored a defensive corps that allowed a conference-best 19 goals in 19 games this fall. Lakin led the NEWMAC in save percentage in conference play (.851) and overall (.863), and second in goals against average (.955) in addition to posting six shutouts on the fall.
WPI finished 15-6 overall in 2025, including the program's first-ever NEWMAC Championship appearance in the NEWMAC era and earned an at-large bid into the 2025 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship tournament. The at-large selection marked the fifth-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament and led to the first NCAA postseason victory since 1989 as No. 22 WPI shutout No. 15 Stevenson,1-0, in Owings Mills, Maryland, before falling to eventual national runner-up Johns Hopkins in the Sweet 16.
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