Charlotte North is returning to the place she became a national champion, with repeat aspirations in mind.

North, who won a national title with Boston College in 2021, became the first announced member of the Boston Guard, one of the inaugural four WLL teams to debut at the 2025 Championship Series. 

When asked Tuesday on ESPN what one word represents her new team, North said: “Pride.”

“We’re going to play for a sense of pride for the city of Boston and all of our fans,” she said.

Alex Aust Holman will be on the Maryland Charm, Izzy Scane on the New York Charging and Ally Mastroianni on the California Palms.

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North’s collegiate career in Boston was nothing short of showstopping. She spent her first two seasons at Duke before transferring to Chestnut Hill for the 2020 campaign. In her junior year and first with the Eagles, North set the program’s all-time single-game points record with a 12-point showing (8G, 4A) against Boston University. The following year, she set the program and ACC record for goals in a game with 10 against Virginia Tech and the NCAA record for goals in a single tournament (31).

North then tied the NCAA championship game record with six goals against Syracuse, leading the Eagles to their first national title after three straight losses on the championship stage. In that game, she claimed the NCAA Division I single-season scoring record with 102 goals, surpassing Courtney Murphy’s 100 in 2016. (They both played 21 games on the season to reach their respective marks.) North became the first player, male or female, to eclipse the 100-goal mark in a season.

North led the team back to the title game in 2022, where Boston College lost to North Carolina, 12-11. She graduated a two-time Tewaaraton Award winner (2021, 2022) and Boston legend. It’s only right she’ll now don the city across her chest in pursuit of the first-ever WLL championship, too.

The road there starts in February at the 2025 Championship Series with the premiere of WLL play in the Sixes-style round-robin tournament. North competed in the 2024 Championship Series exhibition game for the Unleashed All-Stars. It was the first time she played Sixes in a formal setting, and she said then the format “is as close as you can get to a combination of the beauty and skill of lacrosse and the pace of basketball.”

“Boston, get ready,” North said. “Thirty-nine professional sports titles have been brought to that city, so they know how to celebrate as a team that wins, and we as the Boston Guard are ready to add to that number."