LANCASTER, Pa. – The Franklin & Marshall women's lacrosse team had three players honored as first-team All-Metro Region selections. Seniors Belle Dintino, Lauren Pittman, and Devyn Crone represented the Diplomats on the squad as each were first-team All-Centennial Conference selections earlier in the awards cycle.
Belle Dintino caps her career as a four-time All-Metro Region selection, having earned first-team all-region accolades during each of the past three seasons. Dintino was recently named the Centennial Conference Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in her career. As a senior, she posted a career-high 44 ground balls and 60 draw controls. The team captain additionally caused 31 turnovers, highlighted by six CTs against Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference semifinal on her way to earning Centennial Conference Tournament MVP honors. Dintino's 118 career caused turnovers are a new school record, she also ranks sixth in program history in ground balls (166), sixth in games started (84), and ninth in draw controls (153).
Lauren Pittman also earned first-team All-Metro Region honors for the third consecutive season. She scored 46 goals and assisted on 10 more as her 56 points this season helped her join the 300-point club. A contributor to numerous facets of the team's success, Pittman graduates as the F&M record holder in draw controls per game (3.44), while finishing second in draw controls (299), second in game-winning goals (22), second in goals (231), third in free-position goals (39), sixth in points (307), 18th in assists (76), and 21st in ground balls (105). Pittman had three or more goals in 10 different games this season, headlined by a six-goal performance against Swarthmore.
Devyn Crone earned first-team All-Metro Region honors for the first time in her career after receiving second-team recognition a season ago. Crone's senior campaign saw her finish with a team-high 73 points as she scored 31 goals and dished out 42 assists. Crone's assist total this season was just outside of a top-10 single-season mark in program history. She finishes her F&M career with 124 total assists to rank fifth in school history. Her 210 career points rank her 19th all-time in program history. Crone had at least one point in every game this season, with season-high seven-point outings against Dickinson, Washington College, and Neumann.
These three seniors were part of a nine-player senior class that won four consecutive Centennial Conference Championships. They are just the third class (2010, 2011) to accomplish that feat in school history as they won a total of 75 games over the past four seasons. Their shared postseason success included four NCAA Tournament appearances where they won at least one postseason game every year, including trips to the Final Four in both 2023 and 2024.
