Clara Bissell joined the Wesleyan women’s lacrosse coaching staff as an assistant coach for the 2022 season. Bissell arrives in Middletown following three seasons (2018-21) as an assistant coach for Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In her time with the Pioneers, Bissell was part of two NCAA Tournament teams as Transylvania went 15-5 in 2019 and 11-5 in 2021. Prior to Transylvania, Bissell’s first collegiate coaching experience came as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Charleston in West Virginia. This was her first glimpse at recruiting in college, planning practices, lifts and conditioning with the head coach. She was a three-year letterwinner in lacrosse at Berry College (graduated a semester early) as she totaled 38 goals and four assists for 42 points in 42 career games played. Bissell graduated from Berry College in Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in English (literature) in December 2016. She went on to earn a master’s degree in business administration from the Univ. of Charleston (W.V.) in May 2018. Clara joined the Nor’easter coaching staff in 2022.

Megan Cersosimo was a four-year letter winner for the University of Connecticut. She was named All-BIG EAST second team as a senior and to the North Regional All-American Team and she won the UConn Club Award for Outstanding Senior Athlete in 2001. Megan was a captain in her junior and senior years and left as the school career record holder in games started, ground balls and draw controls. Cersosimo was a 4 year letter winner in soccer and lacrosse at Great Valley HS in Malvern, PA. Her extensive coaching experience includes being an assistant Coach at UCONN from 2001 to 2006, the head coach at UCONN from 2006 to 2008 after which she became, and remains, the head coach at Conard High School. Megan was named the Class L Coach of the Year in 2015 and US Lacrosse Coach of the Year in 2017. She has been coaching Nor’easter Elite teams since 2014 and took over as the Youth Director in 2021!

Abby Wolk is a graduate student goalie at Wesleyan University. After graduating with her BA in Psychology and Science in Society, she was eager to use her extra eligibility to continue competing. Abby started in every game of Wesleyan’s 2022 season and helped the Cardinals win another Little Three Championship and earn a bid to the NCAA tournament. She has also earned NESCAC All-Academic honors three times. Prior to Wesleyan, Abby played goalie at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Abby started coaching with Nor’easter in 2022.

Meg Albertsen joined the Trinity coaching staff after spending the previous two years as a graduate assistant coach at Regis College in Massachusetts. Albertsen graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 2019 where she was a two-year captain for the River Hawks. She also has head coaching experience with the Cambridge School and Newton Country Day Middle School in Massachusetts, and has coached with the Revolution Lacrosse Club for several years. Albertsen has her bachelor's degree in liberal arts from UMass-Lowell and her master's degree from Regis in strategic communications. In her first season with the Bantams working primarily with defense, the team boasted an All-American, two all-region defenders and an all-nescac nominee. She has been coaching with Nor’Easter since 2021!

Taylor, a 2015 graduate of CCSU played 2 years of D1 lacrosse at Winthrop University in South Carolina in the Big South conference and 1 season at CCSU. In her senior year, she studied abroad in Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Taylor graduated from Glastonbury High in 2011, as a 4-year varsity field hockey starter, 2-year captain, and State Championship team member. She played 4 years of varsity lacrosse, was a captain, all-conference, first-team all-state, and one of Hartford Courant's top attackers. She was a varsity assistant coach for GHS in 2014, the team made the state championship. She coached a season at Trumbull HS while she was getting her Masters in Sport Management from UConn (2019). Taylor is currently the Head Varsity Lacrosse Coach at Miss Porter's School in Farmington where she serves as the Assistant AD. Taylor has been coaching for Nor’easter since 2013 and was our Director of Administration from 2019-2023.

Ashley Moynahan has been coaching for Nor’ Easter since 2020. She played for Nor’ Easter for about seven years growing up. Ashley is a Fairfield, CT native and attended Fairfield Ludlowe High School, where she graduated in 2020. While at Ludlowe, Ashley was a two-time indoor track and field captain as well as a lacrosse captain her senior year. She was a member of the USA U17 lacrosse team back in 2019 and is currently a rising junior midfielder on the lacrosse team at Rutgers University.

Lia LaPrise has been a coach for Nor’easter since 2018. She also played for Nor’easter in her high school years! Lia is a Windsor, CT native and graduated from The Loomis Chaffee School in 2018. She just finished her undergrad at UConn and was a four-year letter winner. She plays attack at UConn and was named All-AAC second team in 2019, and All-Big East first team for the 2021 and 2022 season. She was also a captain in her senior year. Lia is super excited in her plans to stay at UConn to play for a 5th year!

Kacie Wines started coaching for Nor’Easter in 2022. She has coached Nor’Easter Next for 2 years. She played for Nor’Easter for 6 years and just graduated from Daniel Hand High School in Madison. She is going to be a freshman at Lehigh University where she will play lacrosse as an attacker. She was a two time First Team All-SCC, 2021 First Team All State, two time Academic All-American, and a 2022 US All America as well as two time team MVP. She also swam for DHHS where she was a two time state champion, two time All-State, and a captain her senior year. She has also helped coach for Madison Youth Lacrosse since 2019

Mary has been coaching at Nor’easter since 2021. She began playing at Nor’easter in 6th grade. Mary just graduated from Masuk High School and will be attending Fairfield University to play D1 lacrosse as an attacker under Head Coach Laura Field. At Masuk, Mary accumulated the 2019 Second Team All-State, 2021 First Team All-State, 2019 and 2021 First Team All-SWC and was named captain as a junior and senior. She also played volleyball and was named captain and team MVP her senior year. Mary has been a certified referee for one year, and has been helping coach Monroe Youth Lacrosse since 2018.

Ashley has been coaching with Nor’easter since 2012. She has been the coaching staff at the University of New Haven since her graduation in 2012. She played midfield for the University of New Haven from 2008-2012 during which time she earned multiple All-Conference and All-America Honors. Coaching youth lacrosse is one of her longtime passions and has a strong desire to give back to the sport. Professionally, Ashley has been an math educator since 2013 and currently works as a Math Instructional Coach for West Hartford Public Schools.

Catherine currently plays division 1 lacrosse at Niagara University as a rising junior attacker. She is a 2022 MAAC all-academic student, double majoring in chemistry and philosophy and plans on attending school to get her PhD in organic chemistry after undergraduate. Catherine graduated Guilford high school in 2020 where she earned awards for both field hockey and lacrosse. During her time at Guilford she contributed to 1 SCC championship for lacrosse as well as 2 SCC championships and 2 state championships for field hockey. Catherine played for Nor’easter during her high school career. She now also coaches for Nor’easter next south and helps with Guilford youth teams.

Elizabeth Morrison has been coaching Nor’easter since the fall of 2018 and is currently the assistant coach at the University of Hartford. She previously coached lacrosse and field hockey at Trinity College while earning a masters degree. While working with both teams, helped develop 11 All-Conference, eight All-Region and four All-American honorees. Prior to beginning her collegiate coaching career at Trinity, Morrison was a standout two-sport athlete at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Morrison enjoyed a decorated career in lacrosse, graduating as the program's single-season and all-time record holder in ground balls, draw controls and caused turnovers. Anchoring the Division's lowest scoring defense each of her four years, she became the first — and only — player in Division III women's lacrosse history to earn four All-American honors from the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA). Additionally Morrison earned National Defender of the Year honors in non-consecutive years (2016, 2018) and she was also the only Division III player to be named to the prestigious Tewarraton Award Watch List in 2018. In field hockey Morrison walked onto the team and eventually earned All-American honors her senior after pacing the Lions' offense as the leading points scorer with 41 points on 16 goals and nine assists. As a result of her accomplishments on the field and in the classroom Morrison was nominated as the conference representative for the NCAA’s Woman of the Year award.

Karleigh began coaching for Nor’easter in 2022. She started playing for Nor’easter in 4th grade and continued to play for 8 years. Karleigh just graduated from Daniel Hand High School and is moving on to play division 3 lacrosse at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. She was a 4 year varsity player in both high school soccer and lacrosse. Karleigh’s senior year she was captain of her high school lacrosse team.

Casey began coaching for Nor’easter in 2022. She is currently the girls head lacrosse coach at Canterbury School, works in the Admission office and is the assistant girls ice hockey coach. She spent two years coaching Division I Women’s Lacrosse as a graduate assistant at Canisius College. Prior to that, she was the coach of the Halton Hills Lady Bulldogs for six years. Casey completed her collegiate playing career in 2016 after three seasons at the University of Delaware. She was a three-time IWLCA All-Mid Atlantic selection and All-CAA First Team honoree. Casey was a three-year letter winner in hockey and lacrosse at Berkshire School. There, she was named first Team All-American for lacrosse in 2011 and 2012. She captained the team and was a two-time MVP, three-time All-Star team selection, and set and broke lacrosse scoring records for all three years of attendance at Berkshire School. Casey was a member of the 2011 Canada U19 National Team and won a bronze medal in the World Cup. She was the team’s second leading scorer and was named MVP in the World Cup game vs. England.

Leah has coached at the high school level since 2013. She played lacrosse from 6-12th grade at Chase Collegiate School, where she also was the head girls' varsity lacrosse coach from 2013-2014. She coached both varsity and junior varsity girls' teams at Hamden Hall Country Day School from 2014-2019. During her undergrad at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she played DIII soccer and club lacrosse. She has coached for Nor’easter since 2021.

Caroline (Liney) White has been coaching Nor’easter since 2021. She was a three year letter winner and senior captain at Daniel Hand High School where she played both midfield and attack. She is now at Southern Connecticut State University where she is majoring in communication with a concentration in advertising and in the honors college. She was named captain of Southern’s team for the 2021 season, and is eager to get back on the field and lead her team for a second season. After graduation, she intends to return to Southern for her masters degree and continue her lacrosse career.

Tori Hurley is a recent graduate from Endicott College where she graduated with a major in education and is now completing her masters program through Endicott College in social emotional learning. She started coaching for Nor’easter during summer 2022. Tori played attack for her four years at Endicott and was a captain for her senior season in 2021-2022. Prior to Endicott, Tori played for Glastonbury High School where she was captain senior year, 2x all conference player, 2nd team all state, and her senior year she was voted the #1 attacker in the conference. In addition to lacrosse, she also received varsity letters in basketball and volleyball.

Juliana Henry has been coaching the Nor’easter Lacrosse goalies since 2020. She began playing for Nor’easter in middle school. Juliana currently attends Sacred Heart University where she plays on the D1 lacrosse team as a goalkeeper. She is a 2022 NEC honors student studying public health on the pre-dental track. Prior to Sacred Heart, Juliana graduated from Masuk High School where she was named captain of the volleyball and lacrosse teams in her senior year. She was awarded 2018 & 2019 First Team All-State, 2018 & 2019 First Team All-SWC, and 2017 All-Division for lacrosse.

Erica began coaching for Nor’easter back in 2014. After taking some time off from Nor’easter she began coaching again in 2021. Erica graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 2014 where she played lacrosse for 4 years. She was a starting defender all 4 years, a senior captain, and remains in the records book in the top 5 for most ground balls in a single season. Before Southern, Erica played lacrosse at Masuk High School in Monroe. There she was a senior captain, and made all First Team All Conference her junior and senior year. After graduating from Southern, Erica coached for 2 years at Masuk from 2014-2015. Erica has been coaching JV at Simsbury High School since 2016.

Gabby has joined the coaching staff this year after graduating from Quinnipiac University with a Bachelors of Science in Marketing. As well as playing four years as a midfielder at Quinnipiac, Gabby has years of coaching experience. She has been an assistant coach for Yellow Jackets North club as well as has been the head coach for Monroe Youth 8th grade team this past spring.

Heather has been coaching Nor’easter since the summer of 2021. She attended the University of Connecticut for her bachelors and masters from 2011-2016 where she studied math education and was a member and captain of the UConn Club Lacrosse team, a top 10 team in the country during that time. She coaches both lacrosse and soccer at Conard High School in West Hartford, CT where she is also a math teacher. She has been coaching and teaching in West Hartford for since 2018 and prior to that coached and taught at Franklin High School, a top tier program in Franklin, MA. While coaching at Franklin, the team won two league titles and a state sectional title.

Jessica Ormrod started coaching for Nor’Easter in the summer of 2022 and has been the Head Coach of the University of Bridgeport since July of 2021. As a native of West Haven, Connecticut, Ormrod was very excited for the opportunity to help continue to grow the game in her own backyard. In her first year at UB, she coached the team to their first winning record since 2017. She also helped develop 2 All Conference players in the 2022 season. Ormrod came back to Connecticut after spending 4 years at the University of Montevallo in Alabama as the Assistant Coach. In her time at Montevallo, she helped develop 5 All Conference players as well as help coach the team to 3 GSC Conference Playoffs. Prior to the University of Montevallo, Ormrod had the opportunity to coach at her Alma Mater, King’s College in Wilkes-Barre,PA. Here she helped coach 11 MAC All Conference Players, 1 Rookie of the Year and 1 Player of the Year. Ormrod was a four-year starter (2011-2014) who earned two All-Academic team awards in 2012 and 2014, a 2014 All-MAC Freedom Conference honorable mention, and the Monarch Merit Award in 2014. Along with her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and Psychology (2014), Coach Ormrod also holds a Masters of Education degree from King's College (2017).

Kate has been coaching Nor’ Easter since 2020. She began playing Nor’ Easter in 7th grade and continued to play for 5 years. Kate graduated from Conard high school in 2019 and is a rising senior on the UConn women's lacrosse team. In high school she was a two time all-state and all American selection as well as both the Hartford Courant player of the year and the CHSCA player of the year. She was a three sport captain senior year in soccer, indoor track, and lacrosse. In her past season at UConn was a second team all big East selection.

Betsy has been coaching Nor’easter since 2012. Betsy Vendel (CCSU '14) was named head coach of the women's lacrosse program in October 2018. Vendel is CCSU's all-time leader in assists (99), points (219), draw controls (180) and ranks second in goals (120). Vendel was a four-year member of the women's lacrosse team. She was a three-time All-Northeast Conference selection and earned NEC Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman. She posted four of the top 10 single-season point totals in program history and started all 64 games of her career. During her time with the Blue Devils, Vendel was awarded the Gail Rutz Award as the most outstanding senior female student-athlete. Vendel returns to Central after spending four years at Southern Connecticut State where she was named he Interim Head Coach in the fall of 2017 and guided the Owls to a school record for wins in a season. The program was also recognized with Team Academic honors by the IWLCA. Vendel had served as assistant coach at SCSU since 2015 and was instrumental in all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the team. Vendel's coaching career also includes a season as an assistant coach at the United States Coast Guard Academy. She has also coached with the Nor'easter club program since 2012. A Connecticut native, she began her coaching career at her alma mater, Newtown High School.