WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three Seawolves have been recognized amongst the best company women's lacrosse has to offer.
 
Juniors Ellie Masera and Clare Levy and senior Kailyn Hart have been tabbed to the 2023 Tewaaraton Watch List as announced by the foundation on Friday evening.
 
The 2023 Preseason CAA Player of the Year and USA Lacrosse Magazine Preseason Midfielder of the Year was selected to the 25-Woman Tewaaraton Nominee List last season. The 2022 America East Midfielder of the Year and IWLCA First Team All-American was also the highest Seawolf on the Inside Lacrosse Top 50 Women's Players for 2023 coming in at sixth overall.  Masera is coming off a season where she was the first underclassman in Stony Brook's program history to be named an All-American.
 
Levy joined Masera on the Preseason All-CAA Team and on the Inside Lacrosse Top 50 Women's Players for 2023 being recognized at 37^th overall this past November. The defender was also tabbed to USA Lacrosse Magazine's Preseason All-American Second Team and ILWomen's Preseason All-American Third Team.
 
Hart was also named to the Preseason All-CAA Team and ranked amongst the ILWomen's Top 50 Women's Players for 2023 at 32^nd overall. The senior was named to USA Lacrosse Magazine's Preseason All-American Third Team earlier this month (Jan. 6). The 2022 America East Attacker of the Year, ILWomen All-American Honorable Mention, USA Lacrosse All-American Honorable Mention, and First Team All-America East finished the season with a career best 64 goals.
 
Stony Brook gets the 2023 season underway on Saturday, February 17, when it hosts No. 18 Michigan at 4 p.m. The upcoming schedule is highlighted by five games against preseason top 25 teams: No. 18 Michigan, No. 9 Stanford, at No. 5 Northwestern, at No. 6 Syracuse, and at No. 7 Rutgers. 
 
About The Tewaaraton Foundation
Founded at the University Club of Washington, DC and first presented in 2001, the Tewaaraton Award is recognized as the preeminent lacrosse award, annually honoring the top male and female college lacrosse player in the United States. Endorsed by the Mohawk Nation Council of Elders and U.S. Lacrosse, the Tewaaraton Award symbolizes lacrosse's centuries-old roots in Native American heritage. The Tewaaraton Foundation ensures the integrity and advances the mission of this award. Each year, the Tewaaraton Award celebrates one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy – the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and Tuscarora – and presents two scholarships to students of Native American descent. To learn more about The Tewaaraton Foundation, please visit www.tewaaraton.com.
 
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