VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Women’s Lacrosse

Inducted 2026 

The most decorated lacrosse player Vermont has ever produced, Sarah Dalton went from a multi-sport high school star at Middlebury Union High School to a two-time first-team All-America selection at Boston University, where she led the Terriers to four consecutive America East championships. Now as a collegiate head coach, she also led a team to an America East title.

At Boston University, Dalton set single-season records that still stand for goals (91) and points (102), and graduated in 2009 as the program’s pace-setter with 247 goals and 284 points. She twice was nominated for the Tewaaraton Award for national player of the year, in 2008 and 2009.  She was a third-team all-American as a sophomore in 2007, and earned first team honors in 2008 and 2009, the first and only BU player to be twice named first team all-American.

He collegiate success earned her a place of the U.S. National Development Squad from 2008 to 2010.

A 2004 Middlebury graduate, Dalton helped the Tigers to four straight trips to the Vermont D1 title game winning the state championship in 2001 and 2004. Her junior year MUHS went 13-1, falling in the finals, then went 14-0 in 2004.  She was a two-time first-team all-state selection after earning second-team honors as a sophomore, and her senior year she was a high school all-American.

She also piled up 139 career points in ice hockey to earn first-team all-state recognition from the Burlington Free Press, and helped lead Vermont to wins over New Hampshire in both the lacrosse and ice hockey Twin State senior all-star games. Dalton also was a four-year soccer standout for the Tigers. She spent a post-grad year at Taft School also earning prep all-American honors.

Dalton is a member of the Boston University Hall of Fame and the Vermont Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The VSSA recognized her in 2009 as the state’s female athlete of the year.

After stops as a Division I assistant at William and Mary and Notre Dame, Dalton returned to the Green Mountain State to become the head coach at the University of Vermont prior to the 2017 season. Her tenure with the Catamounts has included leading UVM to its first America East crown and its first NCAA tournament in 2022 with a record-setting 14-5 campaign, and she was named the IWLCA Northeast Coach of the Year.