GIRLS Top 20 Preview: #4 Stillwater
Reminder: our list is based off of the laxnumbers ranking list…here. Don’t hate the journalists…hate the algorithm or your shooting percentage.
And now, and apologies to everyone before, we start in on the big dogs.
What They Were
13-5, 80.90 Lax Number Rating against a 76.68 strength of schedule.
#1 seed in Section 4.
They beat #3 Gentry 6-5 in the section final.
In state, they:
Beat #5 Minnetonka 18-5
Lost to #1 Lakeville South 17-8
Lost to #3 BSM 15-13
What They Lost
(11) 2024s graduated!
Maycie Neubauer - M: 37g/18a/55 points, 15 GB/17 FT/27 DC
Ava Mosley - A: 28g/15a/43 points
Lydia Glass - A: 16g/31a/47 points
What They Have Coming Back
2025 Madylyn Richert - A: 54g/17a/71 points
2025 Rayna Malmberg - A: 22g/10a/32 points, 43 GB/15 FT/8 DC
2026 Alayna Roehl - M: 11g/4a/15 points, 7 GB/6 FT/64 DC
2025 Rio Atkinson - GK: 8.48 GAA, 36.4%
What They Have Looking Forward
12 games on the schedule…you know what that means…
Suburban East Featured Matchups:
#13 CDH
#9 East Ridge
#14 Park
#20 White Bear Lake
#19 Woodbury
Non Conference:
#1 Lakeville South
#2 Prior Lake
#7 Eden Prairie
Now…those are some bangers. 8/12 games on their books are against top 20 teams.
Our Take
She doesn’t put up the points (yet), but we are keying on Indi Capelle this year. She’s a D1 commit, she was super crafty at the draw circle and maybe allowed the upper classmen to get the goal scoring glory. We expect a much more impressive scoring run this year.
They return 2 goalies who both got run last year. Atkinson had the most time, but they didn’t appear too hesitant to go to the bull pen when needed. Is this a case of…if you have 2 goalies, you don’t have 1?
2025 Maddie Richert led a very talented team in points, so figures to be the principal scorer this year.
Its always interesting to see who the newbies are coming out of their VERY strong youth program, so we aren’t terribly worried about them filling spots of the 11 graduates…its equally as interesting to see who from the program goes to Gentry, Hill-Murray, St. Croix Prep, Mahtomedi, or other other schools that aren’t Stillwater.
Regardless of that noise, Section 4 is going to run through Stillwater again and you have to unseat the Queen to get to state. Like it, or not.