Izzy Scane through the eyes of the Charging

She is serious and unrelenting. Controlled and competitive. Physical and forceful.

You know Izzy Scane. But do you know Izzy Scane?

The New York Charging captain and superstar’s offensive dominance earned her the nickname “Scane Train.” She won back-to-back Tewaaraton Awards in 2023 — when she led Northwestern to a national title and led the nation with 99 goals (also setting the program single-season and career scoring records) — and 2024 — when, again, she led the nation in goals with 88.

In the 2025 Championship Series, Scane was one of a few linchpins that led New York to the title game, when it fell to Boston, 22-17. In last summer’s WLL All-Star Game, Scane, the captain of Team Izzy, recorded nine points (8G, 1A) to capture the win over Team North and earn game MVP honors.

Opponents tried to slow Scane down with an opposing stampede of slides and help defense. And she still met net with ease.

“She puts her body on the line and she’s so tall and strong. There’s not much you can do,” Rachel Clark said in August, explaining what makes Scane so hard to guard.

Many know Scane for her game. But her Charging teammates say her personality belies her on-field dominance. Scane’s performances are undeniable, as is her lighthearted and sarcastic nature.

Ahead of the 2026 Championship Series, here is Scane, through the lens of her teammates, who also either played with Scane (Erin Coykendall, Kendall Halpern and Sam Smith) or against her (Emily Hawryschuk and Meg Carney) during her Northwestern days:

Kendall Halpern, Charging defender: Izzy is one of those people that’s just easy to generate a genuine connection with.

Sam Smith, Charging midfielder: She’s so loyal and so funny. … She’s everything you would want in a friend. Really.

Erin Coykendall, Charging attacker: Izzy has passion and intensity on the field but also the ability to loosen up and connect to people, and just have fun and not take everything seriously.

Meg Carney, Charging attacker: She is always just very fun, outgoing, caring, but also is friends with everyone kind of person.

Emily Hawryschuk, Charging attacker: As a person, she’s super sweet. As a teammate, she’s super competitive.

Carney: She’s very go-with-the-flow and never really wavers. She’s very optimistic, too. Like, just always in a positive mood.

Halpern: It’s so easy to follow her because she’s Izzy Scane, but she leads in such an authentic way. Izzy doesn’t need to say much, and she won’t. She leads by how hard she works, how she treats her teammates, the energy she brings to a room, the jokes she makes, and she really just brings everyone together to have a really good time.

Coykendall: I think a lot of people see Izzy on the field and her passion and excitement for the game, which obviously is pretty contagious. She seems very serious on the field, but I would say off the field, she’s more of a sarcastic and witty-type person. I would say I’m very similar, too, so Izzy and I have always shared that. We have always been super close and kind of have a relationship like sisters. That’s how I would describe her as someone who’s been around her for, oh man, I don’t know, since eighth grade, so probably 10 years.

Hawryschuk: She’s super funny, super goofy and sarcastic. Just really good energy. She will definitely make you laugh super quick.

Smith: There’s that level of sarcasm and wit there. It’s very smart and she’s good with one-liners. She’ll just whip something out and it’ll really lighten up the mood or bring up a room. She’s quick with those.

Coykendall: Izzy and I will always sort of just make up, like, the most random lies and go along with it, and get people to believe it, and we don’t even really need to necessarily, like, confirm [the bit] with each other. … She’ll just say the most absurd comment and get people to believe it, and it will go on forever until she decides that she’s gonna let them know that she’s joking. She’s super sarcastic, but really convincing.

It’s just kind of funny to get people to be like, “No, you’re lying!” And she’s like, “No, why would I lie about that?” And then, like, obviously she is, and it just doesn’t make any sort of sense, but it’s little things like that — constantly messing around with people and joking.

Smith: She’d probably be so good at [the reality TV show] “Traitors.” … With the sarcasm thing, she’s pretty good at lying and playing it cool, and I don’t think that people would be able to tell [if she was a traitor on the show].

I think she’d be good at “Survivor,” too.

Hawryschuk: I feel like she would be good on “Survivor.”

Halpern: Oh, I would probably, definitely put her on “Survivor.” I for sure see her being able to make it. She would be much more strategic than any of us.

Coykendall: “Survivor” is so strategic. You have to create alliances and do different things and I think she’s very, very good at being super strategic, and I feel like she’d be the type of person that would have an idol and play it at the perfect time when no one even knew she had it or something like that. And obviously like the challenges physically, she’s really impressive and can do that. So yeah, I think she would also do well on “Survivor.”

Smith: Something about Izzy that really helps with that leadership style is her competitiveness. Super competitive person. It leans into how hardworking she is.

Halpern: She is a really open person and she’s always full of joy. People at her level tend to take things so seriously. But I think for Izzy, the reason she is so successful is because she’s able to put so many things aside and have fun while competing at the highest level.

Coykendall: The on-field side of her she seems very serious, but I think off the field, a lot of times what you don’t see is, sometimes she seems really serious, but her comments are not as serious. She’s super passionate and very fun, and I would say, just loose, like always having a good time, at the same time.

Hawryschuk: Izzy, she says it when it needs to be said, but I also think her play speaks for itself in leading by example and just going out, competing, putting the ball in the back of the net, getting stops on defense — just doing her job and picking everyone up with her.

Coykendall: What she does is contagious. She does a good job of understanding when her teammates need her to kind of lead vocally, and when, more so, we need her passion and enthusiasm on the field and in practice. She kind of just radiates without saying much.

Halpern: We have played together since I was a freshman in college. She’s two years older than me and we kind of first developed a bond when I was a recruit, so in ninth grade and she was in 11th grade, playing in tournaments. It was just like such a special opportunity to grow the bond before college. And of course she was always someone I looked up to as a player, knowing, like, she was gonna be a star. You could’ve predicted right away. Other people didn’t predict it, but her teammates really knew who she would become.

Hawryschuk: I’m very happy that we’re wearing the same jersey.