When Abby Trainor starts gathering her lacrosse gear to leave for a game, that’s usually when she remembers what she forgot: to boil and mold her mouth guard. It’s something that stresses out her mom, Shannon.

“At practice, I’ll bite on it so it flattens at the back, so every time I’m leaving for a game, it’s always at the last hour and I have like one minute to leave the house,” Trainor said. “I have to remold the mouth guard.”

The junior midfielder did a lot of other things right this spring for state champion Windham, scoring 93 goals to go with 33 assists, 69 draw controls and 43 ground balls. She scored the 200th goal of her career in early June, and a few weeks later netted a game-high five goals as the Eagles defeated Kennebunk 12-9 in the Class A final to earn their first state title.

Trainor’s output and big performances in big games are why she has been chosen as the 2025 Varsity Maine Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year.

She’s also an All-American, following in the footsteps of her father, Jeremy Trainor, a 1993 All-American at Oak Hill High School.

“My dad was an All-American, so we’ve always talked about it, and I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder if I’ll get it,’ and then when I heard that at the banquet, it was such an amazing feeling,” Trainor said.

She’s already committed to play at Fairfield University in Connecticut after graduating from high school. In playing an NCAA Division I sport, she’ll follow in her mom’s footsteps — Shannon was a field hockey player at UMaine.

“My mom told me, this is going to be like a full-time job, and there are different routes, like D-II and D-III, but I was set on D-I from an early age because I want that schedule,” Trainor said. “It’s been a dream of mine since I was younger.”

Lacrosse started in kindergarten for Trainor, who chose it over T-ball, she said, because of its fast pace and ability to “burn all my energy out.” In third grade, she began playing in the Windham Youth Lacrosse League alongside many of her high school teammates.

“It’s such a major, amazing foundation because it teaches all the important skills, and they always host little clinics and stuff where you get better,” Trainor said.

Matt Perkins, who has led the Windham High varsity program since 2014, calls Trainor “one of the best” he’s coached.

“Everybody talks about what a great scorer she is — she’s absolutely incredible at scoring the ball — but she’s also so good on the ride,” Perkins said. “Anyone that watched our games this past year, one thing that we do a really good job of is causing turnovers. If we don’t cause a turnover, we make (other teams) drive the length of the field and use up a lot of energy, which helps us on the other end and really propels us to having the No. 1 scoring defense.”

Perkins said Trainor came into the program as a hustler, and committed to building muscle in the weight room to become faster, more athletic and more explosive.

“She’s not satisfied with being as good as she is. She continues to push and work,” Perkins said. “I think that’s why I don’t know where her ceiling is, because she works so hard.”

Trainor helped the Eagles (17-1) finish on a 17-game winning streak that culminated in the state final victory over Kennebunk. What made the season even more rewarding, Trainor said, was seeing players from every grade make an impact.

“We had all different grade levels of kids step up, and that was a huge part of going into games and scoring an average of 17 goals a game,” Trainor said. “Multiple people had multiple goals, and I think that’s a huge part of why our offense was so strong.”

Perkins said one of Trainor’s best games was against Yarmouth, when she worked through double-teams and sometimes triple-teams, and still scored six goals and found open teammates to assist on three other goals.

“You want to face guard and you want to double team, and she still gets nine points; that’s pretty rugged,” Perkins said.