Women's Lacrosse

Carla Hesler








Ninth Season

Carla Hesler, the winningest coach in program history, enters her ninth season as the Purple Knights' women's lacrosse coach in 2009. Hesler has guided the program to a 57-60 record in eight seasons, tying her with Marikate Kelley for the most victories by a head coach in the program's 26-year history.

In 2008, Hesler led the Purple Knights to a program record-tying nine wins, as the team went 9-7 and advanced to the Northeast-10 Conference Semifinals following a quarterfinal win at Merrimack College.

After going 3-9 in her first year in 2001, Hesler's 2002 team recorded eight wins, the greatest increase in victories from the previous season since the 1983-84 teams did the same under Todd Wadsworth. In 2003, Hesler guided the Purple Knights to a 7-6 record, the program's first winning campaign since 1999, and followed that up with a program record-tying nine victories and another winning season in 2004. In 2005, Hesler's squad went 6-7, earning yet another berth in the NE-10 Conference playoffs, and she followed that up with an 8-6 campaign in 2006, and a 7-8 season in 2007.

Hesler, a Lynnfield, Mass., native, brings a strong lacrosse background to the Purple Knights program. She owns a 93-94 record in 13 seasons as a collegiate lacrosse coach, serving as the head coach at Old Dominion University in 1983, Colgate University from 1986-89, and now as head coach at Saint Michael's. Colgate was the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association runner up in both 1986 and 1987 under Hesler.

A 1982 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Hesler played both field hockey and lacrosse, serving as captain of the lacrosse team in both her junior and senior seasons. She was named to the New England Collegiate All-Star team in 1980.

She has served as an assistant lacrosse coach at five institutions, including Northeastern University, Boston College, Yale University, and Princeton University before working with Saint Michael's team in 2000. While at Yale, she helped the Elis win the 1991 and 1994 ECAC Championships.

In addition to her duties as women's lacrosse coach, Hesler had guided the Saint Michael's field hockey team to a 114-76 record over 10 seasons while advancing to the Division II National Semifinals in 2000 and 2001. The squad also won the NE-10 Regular Season Championship outright in 2000 and tied for the title in 2001. In 2000, Hesler was named NE-10 Coach of the Year as well as the NFHCA North Regional Coach of the Year. She holds a career record of 202-179-8 in a combined 22 years years at Colgate, Yale, and Saint Michael's.

Hesler also is a 2007 graduate of the NCAA Women's Coaches' Academy, and resides in Burlington.

Hesler's Year-by-Year Results

Year	School	Wins	Losses	Notes
1983	Old Dominion	0	11
	Totals (1 Year)	0	11
1986	Colgate	12	4	NYSWCAA Runners-Up
1987	Colgate	9	8	NYSWCAA Runners-Up
1988	Colgate	5	7
1989	Colgate	10	4
	Totals (4 Years)	36	23
2001	Saint Michael's	3	9
2002	Saint Michael's	8	9	NE-10 Semifinals
2003	Saint Michael's	7	6	NE-10 Semifinals
2004	Saint Michael's	9	8	NE-10 Semifinals
2005	Saint Michael's	6	7	NE-10 Quarterfinals
2006	Saint Michael's	8	6
2007	Saint Michael's	7	8	NE-10 Quarterfinals
2008	Saint Michael's	9	7	NE-10 Semifinals
	Totals (8 Years)	57	60
	Career Totals (13 Years)	93	94

Saint Michael's College

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