SPARKS, Md. – Northwestern lacrosse legends and teammates Sarah Albrecht Meehan (2002-06) and Lindsey Munday (2003-06) were named to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026, USA Lacrosse announced Thursday.
Being inducted for her playing career, Albrecht Meehan served as a five-time captain of the ’Cats during the advent of the Northwestern lacrosse program. Named captain as a freshman in 2002, she led from the start through NU’s first two NCAA Championships. As a first-year, she started all 15 games and led the team in all scoring categories before an injury would force a redshirted sophomore campaign. She returned to earn second-team All-American Lacrosse Conference honors in 2004. As a member of Northwestern’s first national championship team in 2005, Albrecht Meehan was third on the team in assists, fourth in points and fifth in goals while earning an NCAA Championships All-Tournament team nod with 10 goals in the final three games of the tournament. She also earned Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) All-America Second Team honors for the season. In her final year with the program in 2006, Albrecht Meehan earned IWLCA All-American First Team honors and was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2006 NCAA Championships, while helping lead the Wildcats to their second consecutive title. Following her graduation from Northwestern, she went on to win two world championships with the U.S. Women’s National Team (2009, 2013) and was named to the All-World Team twice.
Also being inducted for her playing career, Munday was a two-time first-team All-American and helped lead the Wildcats to their first two national titles. She closed her career among NU’s leaders in assists, points and goals, was a two-time Tewaaraton Trophy semifinalist and a four-time America Lacrosse Conference selection with first-team honors in 2005 and 2006. At the time of her graduation in 2006, Munday was the all-time leader in assists with 128 and still sits in the top four in the category. In her senior year, she earned Northwestern’s Big Ten Medal of Honor, given to a graduating male and female of outstanding academic and athletic talent. With the U.S. Women’s National Team, Munday won world championships in 2009 and 2013, earning All-World Team honors both times. Her 35 career assists are tied for the U.S. career record, and her 21 assists during the 2009 world championship are the most ever for a U.S. team player. Munday was named as Lacrosse Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2013.
Following their time at Northwestern, both Munday and Albrecht Meehan went on to have successful coaching careers. Munday immediately joined Kelly Amonte Hiller’s staff, helping the Wildcats to three consecutive national championships from 2007-09 before becoming the head coach at Mount St. Mary’s. Munday then became the inaugural head coach at USC, compiling a record of 151-63 over 14 seasons. She currently serves as the head coach of the U.S. Women’s Sixes National Team. Albrecht Meehan went on to lead the New Hampshire women’s lacrosse program as head coach from 2013 through 2021, earning America East Coach of the Year in 2019. She also served as an assistant coach at both Massachusetts and Harvard, while being the Team Operations Administrator on Munday’s U.S. Women’s Sixes staff.
Other inductees into the Class of 2026 are Lissa Fickert, Jon Hess, Jim Nestor, Max Seibald, Chris Rotelli and Peter Worstell.
According to USA Lacrosse, “the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame honors men and women who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of lacrosse to our way of life.”
The Class of 2026 will be officially inducted during a dinner ceremony in Baltimore, Md., on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2027, and will be forever honored in the National Lacrosse Museum at the USA Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Md.