It took Maura Finkel Maura Finkel 5'10" | Attack | Right Hand Maryvale Prep | 2029 MD all of 20 seconds in her first game to make me pull out my notepad. In my first in-person look at the 2029 Maryvale Prep talent, she did not disappoint. On that opening possession, she took it from near midfield all the way to the cage, driving hard and absorbing contact before finishing with authority. On the next play, she pulled out a lethal inside roll to get to the cage and score again. Finkel is a stud. On top of it all, she was one of the best teammates I saw all day. Any time a Coppermine teammate made a play, Finkel was there to hype her up or meet her with a chest bump. She is a phenomenal player and teammate. Finkel is a special talent.

The 5’10” attacker from Maryland had a great inside roll down low on the goalie’s right side in the first game of the day at the Chesapeake Invitational. Finkel is a super slick dodger who can operate 1v1 alone on an island. She has good vision and is a confident player.

Another year in which Maryvale Prep will have one of the class’s top prospects, Maura Finkel is a special one. A tall, pure attacker, cracking the Maryvale Prep varsity squad as a freshman should tell you a lot about her game and what one of the nation’s best programs thinks of her. Finkel is a scorer, a lethal one at that. She is a smooth operator, capable of working both above and below GLE. Her tall, strong frame, comparable to that of a collegiate athlete, allows her to bulldoze through contact and consistently get her hands free to fire on the run. She’s the prototypical tall, athletic, and dangerous scorer, one primed for a breakout season as Maryvale next season. With the Maryvale Prep to Maryland pipeline as established as any in lacrosse, the Terps could look to add yet another home-run backyard prospect in Maura Finkel next September.