Career Honors & Awards:
-CAA Player of the Week | April 25, 2016
2018: Played in all 15 games, starting 11 of them throughout the season…Closed the year third on the team in goals with 14 and tied for the fifth-most assists with three to amass 17 points, the second-most on the squad…Also finished with 12 ground balls, the eighth-most on the team, to go with eight caused turnovers and five draw controls…Scored a season-best three goals on the road against No. 18 Notre Dame and Hofstra…Tallied twice to go with two ground balls at Coastal Carolina…Picked up three ground balls and had three caused turnovers at Delaware.
2017: Appeared in all 20 games throughout the season while making five starts early on…Ended the campaign with four goals and one assist for five points…Also added 19 ground balls, seven caused turnovers and four draw controls…Scored once in each of Elon’s first two games of the season against Campbell and No. 13 Virginia…Also tallied a goal against Coastal Carolina and against James Madison in the CAA Finals…Grabbed a season-high four ground balls against Davidson…Also picked up three ground balls in the CAA Finals against James Madison and two against William & Mary, Drexel, Coastal Carolina and Winthrop…Caused two turnovers apiece against Davidson and William & Mary.
2016: Played in all 17 games in her first season with the Phoenix, earning eight starts…Third on the team with 30 points…Fourth on the team with 21 goals…Second on the team with nine assists…Finished with a 74.5 shot-on-goal percentage…Went 8-for-12 on free position chances…Tallied seven draws, six ground balls and two caused turnovers on the year…Posted six points after a season-high four goals and two assists against Holy Cross…Had a season-high two assists at Towson…Matched season-high four goals at Drexel…Named the CAA Player of the Week on April 25 after stand-out performances at Drexel and Hofstra.
2015 (UMass): Played in 10 games as a rookie…Scored two goals on the season… Tallied two draw controls and a ground ball…Netted her first-career goal, also the game winner, in her collegiate debut against UMass-Lowell…Recorded a goal and two draws against George Mason…Member of the A-10 regular-season and tournament championship team, which also advanced to the NCAA Second Round.
High School: Was a four-year starter for the varsity lacrosse team at Red Bank Catholic…Named team captain and MVP as a senior in 2014…Helped lead her team to two state championships in 2012 and 2014, amassing a 77-11 record during her four years with the program while being crowned division champions each of the four years and Shore Conference champions in 2012…Was selected First Team All-Shore in 2013 and 2014 and was Second Team All-Shore in 2012…Finished her high school career with 211 goals and 129 assists…Was a two-time Academic All-American and a 2013 US Lacrosse National Tournament Team selection for South Jersey…Also was a three-year letterwinner in soccer…Named captain of the team as a senior and helped the program to the Shore Conference Championship the same year.
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Personal: Full name is Maeve Josephine Cowley…Daughter of Bill and Barb Cowley…Born on Aug. 7, 1995… Father was an All-American wide receiver at Holy Cross, who still holds the school record for most touchdown receptions in a game for the Crusaders and he went on to sign as a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots…Mother was also a collegiate athlete as a soccer player at Holy Cross…Grandfather, Bill Cowley, Sr., was a standout basketball player at Georgetown and St. John's before being drafted by the Boston Celtics…Graduated with a degree in Strategic Communications and minored in Professional Sales.
