ATCHISON, Kan. – Benedictine College Athletic Director Charlie Gartenmayer has announced the hiring of Amanda Magee to lead the newly-formed Women’s Lacrosse program.
“We are excited to have Amanda join the Raven Athletics family,” Gartenmayer said. “We look forward to what she will add to the Benedictine community and the leadership she will bring to our Women’s Lacrosse program in the future.”
Magee was an All-Region selection at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., in 2010. She was named to the All Commonwealth Coast Conference first team in 2009 and 2010 and also led NCAA Div. III in saves percentage in 2009 and 2010.
“When I saw the job posting, I was really excited about the chance to move to a part of the country where lacrosse is really starting to become more popular,” Magee said. “Then the opportunity to build my own program was also very exciting to me.”
Magee comes to Benedictine from NCAA Div. III Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., where she served as an assistant coach from September of 2011 through May of 2014.
As a former NCAA Div. III player and assistant coach, Magee believes the athletes that she’ll be recruiting to Benedictine will be very similar to those she played with and coached at the Div. III level.
“The NAIA and Div. III student-athlete is very similar,” Magee said. “They understand what it takes be be a success both on an off the field and have a broad understanding of what it means to be a student-athlete.”
In addition to serving as an assistant coach at Salve Regina, Magee also spent a year coaching high school girls lacrosse in Columbus, New Jersey.
Magee will arrive on campus in March and will begin to build the women’s program, which will begin play as a varsity sport in the Spring of 2016.
“We are excited to be able to add men’s and women’s lacrosse to our varsity lineup,” said Benedictine College President Stephen D. Minnis. “I think our students have enjoyed the sport at the club level and the growth of lacrosse in our region makes it a natural addition to the varsity offerings as we continue to add academic programs and grow as a well-rounded institution.”
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