PURCHASE, N.Y. – Ahead of this weekend's start to the 2026 Skyline Conference Championship Tournament, the Manhattanville University women's lacrosse team had five student-athletes named Second Team All-Conference selections, the conference announced on Friday.
Seniors
Pietra Cabral (Mineola, N.Y./Mineola),
Kaci Pierce (Niantic, Conn./East Lyme) and
Sydney Natale (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) alongside sophomores
Kathleen O'Mara (Huntington, N.Y./Walt Whitman) and
Ashley Glass (Mahopac, N.Y./Lakeland) were all voted onto the Skyline Second Team. It is the first time the Valiants have had five All-Conference selections since 2023.
Cabral makes her third appearance on the All-Conference Second Team after earning the recognition previously in 2023 and 2025. The senior attacker led Manhattanville in the regular season with 48 points, scoring 29 goals and dishing out a team-high 19 assists. Cabral also leads the Valiants with 41 ground balls and added 12 caused turnovers and 29 draw controls. A native of Mineola, Cabral reached 100 career goals on March 7
th against Ramapo. She recorded a point in 13 of the 14 games she played in, led by an eight-point performance on April 11
th against Purchase where she scored five times and added three assists.
Pierce finished just behind Cabral on the Manhattanville scoring standings with 45 points on her senior campaign. Pierce makes her first All-Conference team after scoring a career-high 39 goals during her senior campaign, adding six assists, 19 ground balls, 17 draw controls, and seven caused turnovers. The Niantic, Conn. product had a point in 14 of the 15 games she played in the regular season, scoring four or more goals in five contests. Pierce recorded her 100
th career point on March 27
th against Maritime as part of a five-goal game before going on to net her 100
th collegiate goal on April 18
th at Old Westbury where she finished with six points on five goals and an assist. Pierce also had an eight-goal game on April 11
th against Purchase.
One of Manhattanville's leading defensive playmakers, Natale joined her classmates Cabral and Pierce with her first All-Conference nod. Splitting time between midfield and defense, Natale finished the regular season with 22 ground balls, 16 draw controls and 15 caused turnovers. Natale also added a pair of goals, scoring on Senior Day on April 11
th against Purchase before netting another tally four days later against Saint Joseph's Long Island. The senior had one of her best all-around efforts in that game against Purchase, adding four ground balls and forcing four turnovers alongside her goal against the Panthers.
After her rookie season last year was cut short after five games due to injury, O'Mara's return to the field as a sophomore showed no signs of slowing down. The midfielder played in nine games after concluding her basketball season and still finished third on the team in scoring despite the missed time. O'Mara scored 33 total points, netting 24 goals and collecting nine assists. The sophomore added 15 grounds, 10 caused turnovers and five draw controls to her ledger. In her season debut on March 18, O'Mara scored four goals to lead the Valiants to a 12-8 win over Delaware Valley. She would go on to score in seven of the remaining eight games of the regular season, striking at least twice in each contest she found the netting. O'Mara added four goal performances against Maritime (Mar. 27) and Bryn Mawr (Apr. 1).
Glass rounds out Manhattanville's All-Conference nods with another strong offensive performance throughout her sophomore year. She finished fourth on the team in scoring behind the tri-headed threat of Cabral, Pierce and O'Mara with a 31-point campaign, scoring 25 goals and adding six assists. The sophomore midfielder added career-highs of 20 ground balls and 13 caused turnovers to go along with three draw controls. Glass scored in all but two of the 14 games she suited up for, scoring three goals on four occasions. She finished with a season-high five points twice, scoring three goals and adding a pair of assists on March 9 at SUNY Poly ahead of a four goal, one assist effort on April 15 against Saint Joseph's Long Island.
The Valiants open postseason play tomorrow at SJLI for the Skyline Conference Championship first round at 3 p.m.
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