HONORS
2018 Second Team All-BIG EAST
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 27, 2018)
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 6, 2018)
2017 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 28, 2017)
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 28, 2017)
2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
BIG EAST Rookie of the Week (Mar. 24, 2015)
BIG EAST Rookie of the Week (Mar. 17, 2015)
2018: Started all 17 games as a senior attacker for the Commodores, posting 65 points on 58 goals and seven assists… Earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors… Set the Vanderbilt record for most goals in a single season with 58 and finished her career 10th in program history with 111 goals… Eighth in team history with 100 career draw controls… 13th player in program history to score 100 collegiate goals… Vanderbilt’s first 50-goal scorer in a single season since 2009 and the fourth player in program history to score 50 goals in a season… Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for Week 7 after posting five goals and an assist vs. Butler on March 25, including her 100th collegiate point… Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for Week 4 after an 11-point week on 10 goals and one assist in two games, including a Vanderbilt-record tying eight goals against Louisville… Capped her record setting season with two goals in the season finale vs. Denver on April 28, setting her program record goal tally at 58… Had five goals, an assist and three draw controls against UConn on April 22, setting the single-season Vanderbilt goals record with her 56th goal of the year… Had six shots, two draw controls and two ground balls at Temple on April 18… Scored four goals on April 14 vs. Georgetown on Senior Day, eclipsing the 50-goal mark for the season… Scored two goals, including her 100th collegiate goal, at Marquette on April 8… Had five goals and four draw controls vs. Cincinnati on April 4… Scored three goals in the win over Villanova on March 31… Scored three goals against Oregon on March 28… Scored six points on five goals and an assist at Butler on March 25, including her 100th career point as a Commodore… Had two goals and four draw controls vs. No. 6 Florida on March 18… Scored four goals, all in the first half, to go with four draw controls at St. Joe’s on March 11… Had an assist, two shots, four draw controls and a caused turnover against La Salle on March 8… Scored three points on two goals and an assist along with four draw controls vs. William & Mary on March 5… Tied the Vanderbilt program-record for goals in a game with a career-high eight goals in a 17-15 loss to Louisville on February 27, tying Sue Napolitano’s record set on March 25, 1996, in Vanderbilt’s first season of Division I lacrosse. Peterson’s performance was the first eight-goal game in head coach Cathy Swezey’s 21 years at Vanderbilt… Tallied four goals and an assist along with three draw controls and eight shots against Furman on February 24… Had four goals and two assists on nine shots, plus seven draw controls at Fresno State on February 19… Scored five goals on nine shots while collecting six draw controls in the season opener against Kennesaw State
2017: Started in 14 of 15 games for the Dores during her junior season… Tallied 30 goals, two assists, 32 points, 32 draw controls, seven ground balls and two caused turnovers… Finished second on the team in draw controls and third in goals and points… Set new career highs in goals (6) and points (7) in an early season road win against Furman… Set new career high with seven goals against Butler when the Dores scored their most goals in over two years… Earned a spot on the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll following her performance against Butler… Scored multiple goals in six games last season… Scored a goal and won a career-high six draw controls against No. 16 Elon… Won five draw controls, scooped up three ground balls and scored a goal in the Dores home win over UConn… Scored four goals on the road against No. 20 Louisville… Opened the season with three goals, three draw controls and one assist against Kennesaw State… Named to the 2017 Spring SEC Academic Roll.
2016: Appeared in all 16 games last season as a reserve attacker… Totaled nine goals, four assists, six ground balls, six draw controls and caused four turnovers… Sixth on the team in assists and seventh in goals… Had three multi-point games… Opened the season with two goals, one assist and one ground ball against Kennesaw State… Scored two goals at home against No. 9 Penn State… Had two ground balls, one assist and caused one turnover against Denver… Named to the 2016 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2015: Played in 12 games and made four starts… Led all freshmen with 14 goals, five assists and 19 points… Named BIG EAST Rookie of the Week two weeks in a row… Scored six goals and had three assists with five ground balls and four draw controls in that stretch… Scored a career-high three goals three times, including back-to-back hat tricks against Stanford and Penn State… Had career-high five-point game against Penn State… Set career-highs with three ground balls against Kennesaw State and Penn State… Had personal-best three draw controls against Stanford… Started four straight games, including first career start against Louisville, after back-to-back hat tricks.
High School: Four-year letterwinner and starter at North Hagerstown High School and St. James School … Named U.S. Lacrosse All-American Honorable Mention in 2014… Named Herald-Mail’s Washington County Player of the Year… Four-time first team All-County selection… Three-time first team all-conference selection… Two-time U.S. Lacrosse Academic All-American… Captain as a senior…Helped North Hagerstown win conference and county championships…Scored 49 goals, dished out 37 assists, picked up 143 draw controls, collected 39 ground balls and caused 35 turnovers in 2014… Also a four-year starter in soccer and basketball and a captain on the basketball team… Member of the National Honors Society.
Personal: Kayla Peterson… Born Sept. 23 1996, in Baltimore, Md… Daughter of James and Susan Peterson… Has three sisters: Leah, Courtney, Kristen; and two brothers: Jamie, Kevin… Twin sister, Leah, is also on the lacrosse team at Vanderbilt… Majoring in Human and Organizational Development/Women and Gender Studies…Favorites include: Fired Up (movie), Kenny Chesney (musical performer), Robert Griffin III (favorite athlete to watch in another sport), my sense of humor (favorite thing about herself), Dublin, Ireland (ultimate vacation destination), Beyonce (person I’d love to trade places with for a day).