After her second career five-goal performance, Saint Francis freshman Bella Fisher (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury), a member of the Red Flash women's lacrosse team, has been named the Northeast Conference (NEC) Co-Rookie of the Week for the week of March 20-26. Fisher first earned the conference weekly honor after scoring five times against Kent State on March 10.
 
Fisher had five goals in the game, scoring off an assist from Kelly Dickson at 7:58 left in the first quarter, off a feed from Chyler Espino (San Francisco, Calif./at 11:46 in the second quarter and off passes from Autumn McHenry at 7:54 in the third quarter and with 25 seconds left in the game sandwiched in between an unassisted score at 6:56 in the fourth. Fisher registered her second career five-goal performance after also finding the twine a handful of times at Kent State, while the six points are a new career best in the category.
 
The freshman has registered four multi-goal performances this season and three matches with four or more twine twinklers. She ranks second on the team in goals (18) and third in points (19). The 18 markers are already the eighth most for a freshman in program history.
 
It marks 14th time in program history a player has been named the top rookie of the week, while Fisher becomes the fourth player to earn the distinction at least twice. Fisher was also selected as the NEC Rookie of the Week for the week of March 6-12. Danielle Conwell in 2010 and teammates Danielle Hernandez (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) in 2021 and Christina Roncarati (East Longmeadow, Mass./Pope Francis) in 2022 are the other multi-weekly winners for Saint Francis. Roncarati established a program record with three NEC Rookie of the Week honors.
 
Saint Francis has won a major award in the four of the five weeks it has been playing this season. Along with Fisher's two rookie awards, graduate student Autumn McHenry (Branford, Conn./Branford) was named the NEC Player of the Week for the week of February 20-26 and the NEC Defensive Player of the Week for the week of March 6-12. The Red Flash made history after Danielle Hernandez (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) was named the NEC Player of the Week, Elyssa Enrique (New Canton, Ohio/Hoover) was selected as the NEC Defensive Player of the Week and Julia Givens (Elverson, Pa./Twin Valley) was the NEC Rookie of the Week to sweep the honors for the first time in program history for the week of February 27-March 5.
 
McHenry has earned four NEC Prime Performer recognitions this season, while Fisher and Kelly Dickson (Blue Bell, Pa./ Wissahickon) nabbed two NEC Prime Performer distinctions with Enrique and Hernandez each have one Prime Performer on their resume this season. 
 
Saint Francis returns to action at Howard on Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the nation's capital. The Red Flash will return to DeGol Field to host Stonehill on Saturday at 1 p.m.