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Mary Schumar: good with the ball in her stick | Marquette University
By now, you should be more than familiar with our series of regularly updating leaderboards for various Marquette Golden Eagles sports accomplishments. Keep checking back to that link in the previous sentence for our charts as the seasons continue to churn through history and MU’s various teams continue to create new memories and accomplishments.
Here, we take a look at the women’s lacrosse program’s single season record for assists.
A previous version of this article marveled over Mary Schumar’s 2022 campaign where she tied but did not break Cate Soccodato’s program record for assists in a season. 43 assists in a season, just under 2.4 per game, running amongst the top 10 in the country whether you measured by total helpers or assists per game. Really outstanding stuff, no doubt about it.
And then Schumar put up 69 assists in 2023.
For context: Schumar’s 2023 total would be, by itself, the fifth most assists in a Marquette career. The difference between Schumar in 2023 and Schumar in 2022 when she tied Soccodato’s record — 26 assists — would be the ninth most assists in a Marquette season. These are what you would call, relative to the history of Marquette women’s lacrosse’s production, video game numbers, and she led the country in assists at 3.63 per game.
Which is why I want to note Dani Serrano’s 2026 total.
She finished her freshman year with 38 assists, which led the team and more than doubled up Tess Osburn’s second best total. 38 tied Serrano for the 29th most assists in the country, and her 2.38 per game number was top 25. It is safe to guess that by the time we wrap up the 2029 season, 40% of the all-time top 10 assist seasons in program history will be Dani Serrano campaigns.
Can she take down Schumar’s record? It’s going to take nearly doubling her freshman year output. It’s probably going to, like it did for Schumar, take a Marquette team that’s good enough to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Not for the extra game necessarily, but merely for the offensive options on the field around Serrano to throw her passes in the net.
Please remember: Serrano wasn’t a passing machine in 2026. She had seven games where she recorded just one assist and one game — a 6-5 win at Niagara — where she didn’t even have a point much less an assist. She wasn’t that far off from 46 assists from that point of view, and that would have been the second best season in program history.
Dani Serrano might never get to the 60s and take down Mary Schumar’s record. But someone will one day. Someone will play on a Marquette team good enough to win a Big East tournament semifinal game — MU is 0-5 all time — and the extra game will help them. That team will probably be good enough for an NCAA bid, and there’s another game. Eventually, on a long enough timeline, Marquette will spend an entire season ranked in the top 25. That kind of a team will have women competing who can take down Schumar’s record.
The question is merely when that will happen….
Here’s the chart as it looks at the end of the 2026 season.
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