Records are meant to be broken in Martin Stadium.
A new scoring champion has been crowned.
During Northwestern’s NCAA quarterfinal match against Penn on Thursday, junior attacker Madison Taylor scored her 104th goal of the 2025 season, breaking ex-High Point attacker Abby Hormes’ NCAA Division I single-season goals record of 103 from the 2022 season. Taylor set the record in 20 games, one more than Hormes’ 2022 game total.
Taylor finished the game with six goals and four assists in Northwestern’s 17-12 win.
Taylor also scored her 100th goal of the season during that same match, breaking Izzy Scane’s Northwestern single-season record of 99 from 2023 to become the first Wildcat to have triple-digit goals in a season. She is the fourth Division I player ever to reach the single-season century mark, joining Hormes, Boston College’s Charlotte North (2021, 102) and Stony Brook’s Courtney Murphy (2016, 100).
Taylor will have at least one more game left to extend her record in the NCAA semi-finals. There is still a chance that Taylor couldn’t be the only player to break the record this season, as Boston College’s Rachel Clark is sitting at 95 total goals on the season and could have more opportunities under her belt if her team makes it further into the NCAA tournament than the ‘Cats. Boston College plays Yale in its quarterfinal match later on Thursday.
Headed into the Northwestern-Penn game, Taylor led the NCAA in total goals (99), goals per game (5.21), total points (136) and points per game (7.16). She is one of the five finalists for the 2025 women’s Tewaaraton Award, annually given to the top player in collegiate lacrosse. Taylor was also a finalist last season, when she scored 83 goals and added 33 assists.
Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium is now the site of multiple NCAA records broken by the Wildcats. During Northwestern’s second-round match against Michigan, Taylor scored an NCAA tournament-record 10 goals in a single game. And during the Northwestern-Denver second-round game in 2024 on the same field, Scane broke the NCAA Division I all-time goals record.