Upcoming Event: Lacrosse versus North Carolina on February 7, 2026 at 12 p.m.
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James Madison
vs North Carolina
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Jersey Number 8
Carolyn Thistlewaite
- Year:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 5-7
- Hometown:
- New Hope, Pa.
- High School:
- New Hope-Solebury
- Major:
- Sport and Recreation Management
As a Graduate (2025):
- Second Team All-American Athletic Conference defender
- Started in all 19 games
- Picked up 26 ground balls - second-most for JMU
- Caused 14 turnovers
- Seven games with multiple ground balls and four games with multiple caused turnovers
- JMU Athletic Director’s Scholar-Athlete List (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
2024 as a Senior:
- Did not play in the 2024 season due to injury
- Dean's List (Fall 2023)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
2023 as a Junior:
- Played all 22 games with 21 starts
- Scooped 25 ground balls
- Tied career high with four ground balls vs. Army West Point (May 12)
- Multiple ground balls in five games
- Totaled 17 caused turnovers
- Four caused turnovers against Army West Point (May 12)
- Multiple caused turnovers in three games
- Added three draw controls
- Dean's List (Fall 2022)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
2022 as a Sophomore:
- Dean's List (Spring 2022)
- CAA Commissioner's Honor Roll (Spring 2022)
- Started all 19 games for the Dukes
- Forced 21 caused turnovers, third-most on the team
- Set a career-high four caused turnovers vs. William & Mary (Apr. 16)
- Third-highest ground balls on the roster with 27
- Recorded a career-high four ground balls against UConn (Feb. 19)
2021 as a Freshman:
- Played in all 17 games, making 10 starts at defense
- Had eight caused turnovers and 12 ground balls
- Tallied two caused turnovers with a ground balls in opener vs. High Point (Feb. 26)
- Also had two caused turnovers with a ground ball vs. George Washington (Mar. 16)
- Collected two ground balls vs. Elon (Apr. 25)
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
- Dean's List (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
High School:
- 2019 US Lacrosse U-17 Development Team
- All-Pennsylvania Area Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association Team as a junior
- Named Bicentennial Athletic League MVP as a junior
- First Team All-League as a freshman, sophomore and junior
- First Team All-Intel as a sophomore and junior and Honorable Mention as a Freshman
- Phillylacrosse.com Second Team honoree in 2019
- All-Time leading scorer in school history, with 194 career goals over 3 years
- Helped New Hope-Solebury to 2019 BAL championship
- Team captain as a senior
- Four-year varsity letter winner
- Played club lacrosse for Ultimate Lacrosse for six years
- Competed in Philly National School Girls Tournament in 2018 and 2019
- WPLL Futures in 2018 and 2019
- Played in 2017 lacrosse tournament in the Netherlands to help grow the game of lacrosse
- Dual-sport athlete who also played field hockey
- Four-year starter and team captain for field hockey who was a two-time All-BAL selection and helped team to three BAL and Pennsylvania District 1A titles
- 2019 Academic All-American
- Kiwanis Herald Scholar-Athlete Award in 2020
- Key Club and FBLA member
Personal:
- Daughter of Scott and Michele Thistlewaite
- Has three sisters, Kathryn, Madie and Emersyn
- Her father, Scott, was a First Team All-Patriot League football honoree at Bucknell
- Her sister, Kat, plays field hockey at Franklin and Marshall College, and was the Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year as well as Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference in 2022
- Her sister, Madie, plays lacrosse at Bucknell
- Completed her major in Sport and Recreation Management in 2024, currently pursuing a Certificate in Cyber Intelligence
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