Maris McGinty spent four years captaining three sports at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child. Monday, the New Jersey Lacrosse Foundation handed her its highest individual honor for a girls high school midfielder — the perfect capstone to a career that's already loaded with hardware.

A statewide honor with serious history behind it.

McGinty, a member of Oak Knoll's Class of 2026, received the Quinn Carney Burke Midfielder of the Year Award at the foundation's 28th annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, one of just six student-athletes statewide selected for a 2026 NJ Lacrosse Foundation Girls High School Award. The award carries the name of a legend: Quinn Carney Burke, a former U.S. women's national team player inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2013.

A résumé that goes far beyond the field.

McGinty captained Oak Knoll's soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams and served as class president since sophomore year — a three-sport, student-government double threat. In lacrosse alone, she racked up USA All-American recognition plus first-team all-county, all-state, all-conference and all-prep honors, and Oak Knoll named her its overall Athlete of the Year in June.

A senior season that went down to the wire.

McGinty helped the Royals capture the Union County Tournament title and push all the way to the Non-Public state championship game, entering as the No. 22 team in the nation according to USA Lacrosse. Oak Knoll's 18-game winning streak finally snapped in an 8-7 heartbreaker against Kent Place in the final — but it was still a season for the record books, following her sophomore year role in Oak Knoll's outright state championship in 2024.

What she'll miss most.

At Oak Knoll's National Signing Day last November, McGinty said she'd "deeply miss playing sports with her best friends and the privilege of wearing Oak Knoll across her chest" — a line that captures exactly what four years of this kind of leadership actually costs to leave behind.

Where she's headed next.

McGinty heads to Notre Dame this fall to play Division I women's lacrosse while studying business, part of Oak Knoll's record-setting 19-athlete signing class, the largest in school history. Beyond the field, she was also recognized earlier this year for academic achievement at the Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children's Hoopfest showcase — with AP Statistics, her favorite class at Oak Knoll, helping shape her academic direction heading into college.