A year after finishing as Big East regular season and tournament champions, the Georgetown University men’s lacrosse team, ranked fourth in USA Lacrosse Magazine’s preseason poll Jan. 5, returns ready to build upon a postseason run that ended in the NCAA quarterfinals.
Georgetown’s 2025 season was simultaneously successful and disappointing. The team opened play with a home victory against Loyola University Maryland before delivering mixed results during the nonconference slate, going 5-3. However, the Hoyas ruled Big East play with a 4-1 record, finishing first over Villanova University on a head-to-head tiebreaker.
In the postseason, the Hoyas steamrolled Marquette University and Villanova to clinch their 7th straight conference tournament title. The Hoyas received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, where, after an upset victory over 7-seeded Duke, the Hoyas fell to the 2-seeded University of Maryland on May 18.
That tournament run marked Georgetown’s fifth consecutive year ending in a quarterfinal loss. The Hoyas have set their sights higher for 2026, aiming to make a deeper run in the NCAA tournament, and the team believes they have the squad to do it.
Senior midfielder Lucas Dudemaine, graduate short-stick defensive midfielder Joe Vranizan and senior midfielder Jordan Wray captain the roster. They said taking it day-by-day and improving the small habits were key themes to the Hoyas’ offseason.
Dudemaine said the team did not achieve all of its goals in 2025.
“Obviously we didn’t reach our ultimate goal last season,” Dudemaine wrote to The Hoya. “Just being able to take a step back in the last six months and rethink our goal settings and how we’re going to differentiate our process day-to-day is kind of what we’ve been focusing on.”
Despite Georgetown’s top scorers, Aidan Carroll (SFS ‘24, GRD’25) and Fulton Bayman (GRD ’25), graduating, Head Coach Kevin Warne is confident that transfers Rory and Liam Connor will give the team an offensive boost. The two, who are brothers, are highly rated attackmen coming from Colgate University. Warne said he is also certain that younger returning players will take a step forward in their development, forming a well-rounded team with plenty of depth scoring.
“We brought in two players from the transfer portal, Rory and Liam Connor, who have scored a lot of points in their careers, and we expect them to come in and contribute in lots of ways,” Warne wrote to The Hoya.
“Everyone else is also a year older, so I think that some of our returners will have new roles and we’ll be a lot deeper this year, instead of depending on one or two guys,” Warne added.
Aside from Carroll and Bayman, the team is also losing Michael Haus (MSB ’25) and Jack Erb (GRD ’25), remembered by Vranizan for their selflessness.
“I’m going to miss playing with Haus and Erb,” Vranizan wrote to The Hoya. “They were unselfish guys who were also a lot of fun to play with. I felt that they made last year really special for me.”
As for younger returning players, Dudemaine, Wray and Vranizan said sophomore attacker Jack Ransom and first-year midfielder Johnny Price are potential breakout stars this season.
The season begins Jan. 31 in Baltimore against Loyola Maryland, a highly anticipated game as the team seeks to set a tough and winning tone for the season. Wray said he recognized the importance of starting the season with a win.
“I’d say that our first game against Loyola is one that’s on my calendar,” Wray wrote to The Hoya. “We just want to go 1-0 there, and we’re really looking forward to it.”
The Hoyas will face six teams they played last year in addition to five Big East conference games to end their regular season slate. It shapes up to be a very familiar schedule — one that the Hoyas have had winning seasons with. Georgetown’s home opener is set for Feb. 7 vs Johns Hopkins.
Big East play will begin March 28 against the University of Denver, with the tournament taking place in early May. The NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament will follow shortly after at the University of Virginia.
During the upcoming spring season, the Hoyas will look to rely on transfer players, as well as standout first and second-year players, to build a uniquely well-rounded squad with scoring depth. The season outlook is positive and reassuring among the players and coaches as the team will take lessons, both good and bad, from last year and enter the 2026 season with sights on a national championship.
Before the season kicks off, the Hoyas will host two scrimmages. The first, against the Naval Academy, is Jan. 17 at 1 p.m., and the second is against No. 1 University of Maryland Jan. 24.
