CHESTER, Pa. – Monmouth Women's Lacrosse Assistant Coach Meg Douty and the Maryland Charm captured the first-ever Women's Lacrosse League championship on Sunday, defeating the California Palms, 16-13, at Subaru Park near Philadelphia.

The Fair Haven, N.J., product collected several ground balls and helped anchor a Charm defense that limited the Palms' chances in the final minutes, allowing Maryland to score the insurance goals needed to close out the victory and claim the inaugural WLL trophy.

Douty, who has helped bolster the Hawks' back line as a coach since her arrival in West Long Branch in 2023, won a pair of national championships as a player at Maryland in 2014 and 2015 and helped Team USA earn the gold medal at the World Cup Championships in 2017 and 2022. While in college, she was a two-time Conference Defensive Player of the Year and a Tewaaraton finalist in 2014. Douty has played professionally since the inception of professional women's lacrosse and earned recognition as Inside Lacrosse's Defender of the decade from 2010-2020.