Fort Lewis Hires MacDonald as Head Coach
from press release
DURANGO, Colo. -- Kelsey MacDonald has been
hired as head lacrosse coach at Fort Lewis College, Director of
Athletics Kelly Higgins announced.
"Kelsey is uniquely qualified to help us develop into a high
quality Division II women's lacrosse program," said Higgins. "She
has an excellent collegiate background as a coach and player. I'm
looking forward to working with her."
MacDonald has spent the past two seasons at Wellesley (Mass.)
College. She was an assistant coach prior to serving as interim
head during the non-traditional fall season in 2009. In these
roles, she assisted in planning practices, teaching skills,
coaching individual players, and developed the winter off-season
strength and conditioning program.
She spent five months as assistant lacrosse coach and strength and
conditioning coach at her alma mater, Plymouth State (N.H.)
University, in 2008.
"I'm very excited to start, meet the girls and get working on the
program," said MacDonald, who will begin her duties at Fort Lewis
on Sept. 1.
She has also worked as an exercise physiologist and personal
trainer for PeopleFit Health and Fitness in Woburn, Mass., since
2008. In this capacity, she evaluates the physical fitness of
clients, prescribes fitness programs, teaches group exercise
classes and trains clients on a one-on-one basis in personal
training sessions.
MacDonald graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in
exercise science from Plymouth St. in 2007.
She had a highly successful career at the NCAA Division II level,
playing from 2004 through 2007 at Plymouth St. She was a three-time
Player of the Year in the Little East Conference as a sophomore,
junior and senior and a three-time all-conference performer.
MacDonald also played four years of soccer for the Panthers,
earning second team all-conference honors as a senior. Plymouth St.
honored her with the Janet Fell Female Athlete of the Year award in
2007.
MacDonald attended Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, where
she played lacrosse, soccer and basketball for four years. She
graduated in 2003.
She becomes the second head lacrosse coach in the history of the
Skyhawk lacrosse program, now is in its third year as a varsity
sport at Fort Lewis College. Under inaugural coach Kelley
Quiesser-McPeake, FLC's newest program went 1-18 during their first
two campaigns.
