Whether she’s in Sagehen blue or Australian gold, Hannah Gough ’25 commands attention on the lacrosse field.
The Adelaide native finished her Pomona career an All-American and three-time first-team all-conference honoree. The Sagehens won 76 games with Gough patrolling the midfield, never lost to rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and advanced twice to the NCAA Division III Elite Eight.
Gough now has her sights set on making the Australian national team bound for the 2026 World Cup in Tokyo and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. (In January 2025 Gough helped Australia take silver at the 2025 Asia-Pacific Women’s Lacrosse Championship, punching the team’s ticket to the 2026 World Cup.) Gough later received an invitation to attend two World Cup trial camps this winter after serving as an alternate for Australia at The World Games in Chengdu, China.
Gough started playing lacrosse at 7, always appreciating the sport’s physicality and intensity. Within a few years she was in Australia’s club circuit playing against adults. At 16 she outlasted hundreds of young women to earn a spot on the 2019 Under-19 Australian Women’s Team. As part of the team she trained at Loyola University Maryland, which inspired her to want to attend college and play lacrosse in the U.S.
An economics and international relations double major, she was recently one of 18 athletes to receive funding from the Australian Institute of Sport, making her eligible for the Olympic team.
“The Olympics are what every athlete dreams of,” she says. “There’s so much pride and so much love and excitement in playing for your country. It’s not something a lot of people get to do.”