The 2003 Yale University captain, Clarissa Clarke returned to coach for five seasons on the Bulldog staff. As a senior, she helped lead Yale to the NCAA Tournament and was named IWLCA/US Lacrosse Regional Second Team All-American. She also earned multiple All-Ivy honors during her career. Clarke was selected to the Academic All-American Team her senior year. Clarke is fifth on Yale’s career goals scored list with 114. She joined Madison Youth Lacrosse in 2004 and ran a winter training program for them, as well as coaching girls’ grades 3-8 in the spring. Clarke served as Head Coach of the Loomis Chaffee Varsity team from 2014 to 2016, was named US Lacrosse Coach of the Year in 2016 & currently volunteers for the women's lacrosse program at Fairfield University. Clarissa Clarke is the regional director for the WPLL Futures Program. The program helps develop the youth into future leaders of the sport. Clarke has been on the college and club scene since 2004. Over the last 18 years, her relationships and connections with college and high school coaches have helped countless players play in college. Clarissa inspires young girls to work tirelessly while constantly asking them to try to be their best on and off the field.

A 2000 graduate of Princeton University, Laura Field was named Head Coach at Fairfield University in July of 2015. Before Fairfield, Laura was named the Interim Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Yale University in the fall of 2007 and coached for seven seasons at Yale University before joining the Fairfield University Staff in 2008. A three-time All-Ivy pick for the Tigers, Field played in two NCAA final eight games as well as the National Championship her senior year. She also won an Ivy League championship and ranks fourth on Princeton’s overall career saves list. She has worked as a youth coach since 2002. While Field has been at the helm of Fairfield University, she has claimed three MACC championships in just four seasons. As a native of Mystic, Connecticut Field strives to bring the best lacrosse coaching to young people from all over the state.

Mo Spellman rejoins Nor’easter Lacrosse as Recruiting Coordinator — working with players and families to help navigate the ever-changing and demanding environment of college recruiting.

Mo previously worked as a coach for Nor’easter from the 2012-2013 season up until her acceptance of the Head Coach position at Endicott College in the Summer of 2018. She will be a familiar face to many as she has returned many times for clinics and events and most recently has held clinic sessions for our goalies this summer.

Spellman understands the importance of academics to the college game and her programs have excelled in the classroom. Her teams have been honored on the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll and won conference recognition with the Commonwealth Coast Conference 2019 Sportsmanship Award. Spellman has further powered Endicott to back-to-back CCC titles in 2018 and 2019 and is poised to continue that tradition. Spellman graduated from the University of New Haven in 2012 where she served as Captain in both her junior and senior years. She remains their all-time saves leader and was the NE10 Goalkeeper of the Year in her freshman season.

Spellman has been committed to mentoring high school and college-age lacrosse players and growing the game from the inside out. A staple on the camp and clinic trail she has a nuanced understanding of the inner workings of the recruiting process and how to navigate the ever-changing path for both players and their families. Spellman will bring her strong work ethic and her approachable and accessible nature to the guidance process for our college-bound players. We are excited to have her expertise and know that she will help tremendously as we, and our players, navigate the changing landscape due to Covid-19.

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, and 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 2013 and took over as the Youth Director in 2021!

Katy Szymanski enters her 10th season as head coach of the Trinity College women's lacrosse team, having guided the Bantams to the post-season in the toughest conference in NCAA Division III each season. Szymanski, the 2012 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2016 IWLCA Division III Berkshire Region Coach of the Year, was promoted to head coach at Trinity in June of 2014. She guided Trinity through its unprecedented run of six-straight NCAA Division III Championship Final Fours from 2012-2017, including an NCAA Championship season in 2012. Szymanski was also a participant in the 2011 NCAA Final Four as a captain for Bowdoin College's squad.

Szymanski earned her bachelor's degree from Bowdoin in visual arts and environmental studies in 2011 and added a master's degree in public policy from Trinity in 2013. Szymanski starred at center midfielder for her alma mater from 2008 to 2011, earning IWLCA All-Regional honors twice and receiving the program's Ellen Tiemer Trophy for excellence in lacrosse by a vote of her teammates and her coach. Szymanski, who was also an assistant field hockey coach at Trinity from 2011 to 2013, is an assistant professor at the College in Physical Education. She organizes a fall clinic for inner-city youth in Hartford each autumn and serves on the athletic department's marketing and communication committee and its sports medicine committee.

Szymanski has served on the Venture Orientation Committee for the past eight years, helping to develop and expand programming for first-year females committed to making a difference in the world. The program runs for three days during orientation and provides an opportunity for first-year females to meet faculty, alumnae, senior administrators, and trustees while focusing on building their strengths and confidence before entering Trinity. There are a handful of year-round programming throughout their four years. She resides in West Hartford with her husband, Tom, and welcomed a baby boy in May.

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Avery Giorgio has been coaching Nor’easter since 2013. She is a Nor’easter native, having also played nor’easter since 6th grade. Avery graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School in 2013, where she was a 3 sport varsity athlete (Soccer, Swimming, Lacrosse), earning all-state and area recognition in all 3 sports. Avery continued her lacrosse career at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, graduating in 2017 with a degree in Psychology. Avery was a captain her senior year and a 4-year member of the Holy Crosse Leadership Academy for Athletes. Post college, Avery coached soccer and lacrosse at Cheshire Academy, while also being a reading and math specialist at Roberto Clemente in New Haven, CT. She stayed local to complete prerequisite courses for nursing school. That took a turn when she got offered the Assistant coaching job at Trinity College. Avery worked closely with the attackers and midfielders at Trinity College for 3 years. During this time at Trinity, she also earned her Masters degree in Public Policy & Law (2021). This past year, she moved to the high school prep school world. Avery was the Assistant Athletic Director and head lacrosse coach at the Millbrook School. She also taught 2 sections of Algebra II, was the dorm head of an all-female 3rd form dorm and helped out with the soccer team in the fall! Avery is excited to help our Directors as the new Director of Programming for Nor’easter!