Xavier University Athletics
Mancuso Named 2024-25 BIG EAST Sport Excellence Award Winner
08.08.25 | Women's Lacrosse
Lola Mancuso earned the honors for Xavier.
NEW YORK - The BIG EAST Conference has announced the winners of the 2024-25 BIG EAST Sport Excellence Awards, which recognize academic and athletic achievement as well as community service. Xavier's Lola Mancuso was named the award winner in the women's lacrosse category.
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Mancuso holds a 3.98 GPA in communications. The Plantation, Fla. native earned her second straight All-BIG EAST Second Team nod in the 2025 season after leading the team with 45 goals and 51 points. She is a two-time All-BIG EAST Academic Team selection and was named to the 2025 Allstate NACDA Good Works Team for her community service efforts.Â
The Sport Excellence Awards are given to one student-athlete in each BIG EAST-sponsored sport based on academic credentials, athletic accolades or performances and volunteer service to the community. Student-athletes who have attained junior academic standing and a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 are eligible. The winners are chosen by the BIG EAST Faculty Athletics Representative Council.
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Seton Hall led the way with five honorees, while UConn, DePaul and Marquette each had three recipients. Nine student-athlete winners, Butler's Talia Sommer, UConn's Sol Simone and Olivia Wright, DePaul's Jorie Allen, Alex Bernstein and Sven Moser, Seton Hall's Stephen Beaman and Samuel Bjoerk, and Xavier's Lola Mancuso boasted an undergraduate GPA of 3.9 or higher.
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While the format of the awards allows for only one declared winner in each sport category, the selection of the recipients proves each year to be a challenge for the FAR Council, as candidate nominees represent exceptional student-athletes who excel in academics, service, and athletics, and are outstanding representatives of their schools and the Conference.
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Mancuso holds a 3.98 GPA in communications. The Plantation, Fla. native earned her second straight All-BIG EAST Second Team nod in the 2025 season after leading the team with 45 goals and 51 points. She is a two-time All-BIG EAST Academic Team selection and was named to the 2025 Allstate NACDA Good Works Team for her community service efforts.Â
The Sport Excellence Awards are given to one student-athlete in each BIG EAST-sponsored sport based on academic credentials, athletic accolades or performances and volunteer service to the community. Student-athletes who have attained junior academic standing and a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 are eligible. The winners are chosen by the BIG EAST Faculty Athletics Representative Council.
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Seton Hall led the way with five honorees, while UConn, DePaul and Marquette each had three recipients. Nine student-athlete winners, Butler's Talia Sommer, UConn's Sol Simone and Olivia Wright, DePaul's Jorie Allen, Alex Bernstein and Sven Moser, Seton Hall's Stephen Beaman and Samuel Bjoerk, and Xavier's Lola Mancuso boasted an undergraduate GPA of 3.9 or higher.
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While the format of the awards allows for only one declared winner in each sport category, the selection of the recipients proves each year to be a challenge for the FAR Council, as candidate nominees represent exceptional student-athletes who excel in academics, service, and athletics, and are outstanding representatives of their schools and the Conference.
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