GIRLS Top 20 Preview: #13 Cretin-Derham Hall
Reminder: our list is based off of the laxnumbers ranking list…here. Don’t hate the journalists…hate the algorithm or your shooting percentage.
What They Were
11-7, 76.83 Lax Number Rating against a 74.00 Lax Number Schedule.
#3 seed in Section 3. They won Section 3 by beating Woodbury 12-9 in section final. They lost to Lakeville South in State QF 17-4 and Minnetonka 10-6 in Consolation Semifinals.
What They Lost
(6) 2024s.
Sofia Watts - M: 79g/24a/103 points, 31 GB/8 FT/92 DC
Marin Miroslavich - D: 40 GB/10 FT
What They Have Coming Back
2028 Jordin Rosga - M: 59g/52a/111 points, 34 GB/22 FT/72 DC
2025 Jane Stangler - M: 41g/22a/63 points, 36 GB/8 FT/56 DC
2027 Paloma Kronschnabel - D: 40 GB
2029 Caroline LeClair 8.93 GAA, 42.3%
What They Have Looking Forward
13 games locked and loaded on the books.
They have their Suburban East highlights (# 4 Stillwater, #9 East Ridge, #14 Park, #19 Woodbury, and # 20 White Bear Lake) and then they sprinkled in #3 BSM, #27 Mahtomedi, #28 Buffalo, and #37 Armstrong/Cooper.
Our Take
Obviously, CDH plays in the rarified air of other…more privileged…schools that can play faster and looser with the transfer “rules”, so they could easily hit the portal (ALLEGEDLY) and throw some NIL after some kids with their NLI’s done and boost things up. Looking at a few other rosters…they seem well versed (ALLEGEDLY).
But do they need to?
Quick and easy take is to wail and moan about losing mega producer Sofia Watts…we might have even made that argument last year for them. But let’s dive a little deeper…
First, second, third and probably fifth is Jordin Rosga. Lots of praise for a 9th grader…but she’s earned that. Big sister ran up the stats at Gentry, became a Terp and then transferred this off season to Northwestern…and Jordin is on that type of track. We’ve SPECULATED before, and will again, she could as easily end up at McDonough, Darien, IMG, or (big brain Loyola Academy or New Trier with big sister chilling out in Chicago)…or she could stay at the professional athlete factory in St. Paul and just crush the hell out of MN girls lax. How insane would her career numbers be if she stayed? Luckily for her, and for us, MN players of top caliber the past few years are getting big D1 looks (Sam Hohn, Abby Grove, Jaylen Rosga, Claire Nelson, Peyton Bloedow, Maggie Brown…just to name a slight few D1 players), so there is a path there that the family has already navigated.
So, what else is cooking at CDH? Jane Stangler (2025) is a super solid, hard working, physical player that had great numbers last year (she’s going to Niagara) to baseline off of the mega star. She’s actually been overlooked the past few years, with Rosga, Watts, and her older sister. They also have defender Paloma Kronschnabel (2027) and keeper Caroline LeClair (2029) contribute majorly. Kronschnabel is a multi sport athlete at the varsity level already and LeClair led a team in goal that made state, as a 7th grader. Yes, Stangler is going to graduate after this year, but CDH has a few pieces in place to build a new core.
Do they need some more to rise up and take the pressure off of Rosga and Stangler? Yeah…not many other goals are returning other then what they scored. CDH has athletes, so if Coach Rosga can coach them up and hit the transfer portal (ALLEGEDLY), they can fill the gaps.