The 2025 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Girls Lacrosse Team includes a mix from all four area programs, Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Grandview and Regis Jesuit.
The largest concentration of talent on the All-Aurora team — chosen by the Sentinel in conjunction with balloting of city coaches — is from Regis Jesuit, which posted its highest win total (14) since the 2019 season and made it to the Class 5A state semifinals.
Coach Crysti Foote’s Raiders had a fantastic season that ended with a heartbreaking one-goal loss to rival ThunderRidge (which went on to fall to Valor Christian in the final) and appear to have a bright future given how many upperclassmen took prime roles. But Regis Jesuit had a senior who helped the young talent immensely in Madisyn Jokerst, a four-year varsity player who has signed with Division I South Florida.
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Jokerst helped Regis Jesuit to 47 victories over her career and averaged a little over 53 goals per season in the process. She finished with a career-high 67 as a senior, which put her third among Aurora area goal scorers and helped her to a total of 77 points, also a career best and second among locals. Jokerst made the All-5A South League first team as well as the All-Colorado High School Activities Association 5A All-State first team.
Also in the area’s top group on the attack is Regis Jesuit junior Delaney Sitzmann, who paced all Aurora area players with 33 assists — by a margin of 11 — and her 54 points ranked her fifth among local players. The top highlight of Sitzmann’s season came in the 5A state playoffs, when the All-5A South League second team selection scored the overtime goal that lifted the Raiders to an 11-10 victory over Colorado Academy, which hadn’t lost a playoff game since 2014.
The Regis Jesuit midfield also proved exceptionally strong with the presence of sophomore Natalie Chilton and freshman Addison Kindy, both first team all-conference performers.
Chilton led Regis Jesuit in points in the semifinal defeat with four (three goals and an assist) and amassed 59 for the season on 38 goals and 11 assists, while Kindy wasn’t far behind with 40 points that came on 28 goals and 12 assists.
Defensively, the Raiders had plenty of talent in front of a rotating group of three goalies and yielded just an average of 6.9 goals per game. Sophomore Brette Snapp played a large role in that defensive strength (plus chipped in six goals and two assists), as did junior Lainey Phillips. Both defenders were All-5A South League first team performers, while Snapp received a spot on the CHSAA All-State second team.
All three of Regis Jesuit’s netminders — senior Lauren Mendelsohn, junior Rayn Parker and freshman Reese Steiner — had their moments. Steiner, however, emerged from the rotation as the go-to goalie in the postseason and she posted a .432 save percentage in action over 11 games and made 10 saves in the Raiders’ elimination of Colorado Academy.
Eaglecrest snapped a postseason drought that stretched back almost a quarter century. The Raptors got into the 4A postseason (stopping a streak that went back to 2001) with swelling program numbers produced by combined additions of several freshmen as well as a number of players from nearby Rangeview, which had to cancel its season at the last minute.
A particularly key newcomer for coach Amanda Sehres’ Eaglecrest program was senior Shylin Collins, who had scored had 155 goals over the past three seasons for Rangeview.
Collins made an impact in a variety of ways, as she was an All-4A East League first team and All-CHSAA 4A All-State second team pick as a draw specialist, while she led Aurora area players in groundballs with 80. That’s in addition to an offensive output of 75 points, which included 70 goals — just shy of her career high of 77 in 2023 — and five assists.
After consecutive playoff appearances in 4A, Cherokee Trail moved up to 5A and found the going tougher in terms of wins and losses in the larger classification as it finished 4-11 after it was 12-5 in 2024.
Coach Blake Macklin’s Cougars needed to replace a lot of offensive production lost to graduation and got a lot of it from senior Lorelei Gearity in her fourth varsity season.
Gearity — who does not plan on playing the sport in college — finished the season as the Aurora area’s leader in total points with a whopping 90 (one more than her junior campaign). That included a city best 73 goals along with 17 assists, a total surpassed by just three other Aurora area players. Gearity (a member of the All-5A East League first team and CHSAA All-State second team) finished her career with 209 goals and 69 assists.
Grandview’s representation on the All-Aurora first team comes on defense in senior Amaya Costas, an All-5A East League first teamer and CHSAA All-State honorable mention selection. Costas racked up 74 groundballs for coach Alex Smith’s Wolves and often matched up against opponents’ top threats. For good measure, she was one of only three Grandview players to score double-digit goals with 14 to go with four assists.
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
