Editor’s Note: Charlotte North will not be eligible next season due to ACC transfer rules. This post has been updated to reflect that information.
Boston College lost the Big Three, but just reeled in the two biggest fish in the transfer portal.
The Eagles, who have advanced to the NCAA women’s lacrosse championship game the last three years, announced Tuesday that they have added attacker Charlotte North, a former 100-point scorer at ACC foe Duke, and goalie Rachel Hall, a U.S. U19 team member who led the country with 246 saves as a freshman at Oregon.
North, a Texas native, should eventually help compensate for the loss of former Tewaaraton Award winner Sam Apuzzo and multi-sport sensation Kenzie Kent, BC’s top two scorers. She led Duke with 59 goals as a freshman and set the Blue Devils’ single-season scoring record with 105 points (82 goals, 23 assists) this year.
The Eagles will have to wait, however, until 2021. Due to the ACC’s intra-conference transfer rules that require a student-athlete to be enrolled in the new school for two full semesters before competing with his or her new team, North will not be eligible next season, a BC athletics spokesperson confirmed Tuesday evening.
“We’ve been watching Charlotte in awe for years and not only is she a game-changer, but her skill and tenacity can positively affect others around her, be an asset to our recruiting and strengthen our program for years to come,” Eagles coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein said of the two-time All-ACC second team honoree in a press release. “She is the type of player we wish we could start coaching today.”
Hall, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, put up double-digit saves in 14 games with the Ducks. She averaged 13.67 saves per game and finished with a save percentage of 49.8. She will compete with Team USA at the World Lacrosse Women’s U19 World Championship in Peterborough, Ontario, next month.
“Rachel is coming off a tremendous year and will exceed expectations at the upcoming 2019 World Cup Championship,” Walker-Weinstein said. “She is the type of goalie that rarely comes around.”
Boston College, which also graduated Tewaaraton finalist Dempsey Arsenault as part of a transcendent senior class in the spring, added a third transfer in attacker Bridget Simmons from Albany. Simmons was formerly a top scorer at nearby Notre Dame Academy (Mass.), a nationally recognized high school program.
“Our program got stronger this offseason,” Walker-Weinstein said. “Certainly, the future is bright.”