Head Coach:Position Available
Office Phone: (937) 327-6499
E-mail: gpurnell@wittenberg.edu
Career Record: (2000-present)

Last year the Tigers played extremely well under the tutelage of Kristin Chesterton. The Tigers posted a 15-5 regular season record, and a 9-3 mark in NCAC play. This was the 15th straight year that the Wittenberg Field Hockey team posted a winning record. Wittenberg marched into the NCAA tournament with a lot of power only to falter in the second round to William Smith College.

The Field Hockey team can boast that it had one All-American player and three All-Great Lakes Region players. Carrie Happ, Blair Ufer and Julia Wickham all made Great Lakes honrs, while Ufer was awarded with All-American status.

For more information about the Wittenberg University Field Hockey coaching position please contact the Athletic Office at 937-327-6450.

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Assistant Coach: Katherine Haney
Office Phone: (937) 327-6490
E-mail: khaney@wittenberg.edu

Katherine Haney was named head women's lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at Wittenberg University in July 2003.

Haney joined the Tigers after spending the 2002-03 school year as an assistant women's lacrosse and women's soccer coach at Utica College, an NCAA Division III institution like Wittenberg located in Utica, N.Y. Previously, Haney spent two years as head girl's lacrosse coach at Smoky Hills High School in Aurora, Colo., and she also has experience coaching Team Colorado in the annual Vail Shootout and assisting with the Mountain Region National Team. Her field hockey coaching experience includes serving as an assistant at Kent Denver High School in 2001, a season in which the team won the Colorado state championship. Haney coached the freshman team to a perfect record and the next year she assisted with the field hockey program at Denver East High School and coached the junior varsity team to a winning record and helped the varsity to a top-five finish in the state.

As a lacrosse player, Haney helped the Denison Big Red, one of Wittenberg's NCAC rivals, to two conference championships and two berths in the NCAA Division III Tournament. Denison posted four straight winning seasons and finished the NCAC regular season with perfect 7-0 records in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Haney was the team's starting goaltender from 1996-2000, and she played at least three-quarters of the minutes of each season in the net. In 2000, Haney had her finest season, posting a save percentage above .500 and earning first-team All-NCAC and first-team All-West Region.

Haney, a native of Atlanta, graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., where she was a standout in lacrosse.

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