DIRECTOR
Kathy
De Angelis
Kathy De
Angelis, a former
player and current coach for the United States National Field Hockey
program,
is in her 10th year as head field hockey coach at Hofstra University. In her nine seasons at
Hofstra, De
Angelis has guided the Pride to a 91-88 record and has seen her team
post six
straight winning seasons (2001 through 2006) for the first time at the
Division
I level and just the second time since 1947 to 1952. Hofstra's record
over the
last six seasons is 73-47. Active in the administration end of the
sport, De
Angelis has been a member of the National Field Hockey Coaches
Association
Mid-East Region ranking committee.
The 2006
season was nearly
identical to the Pride's 2005 campaign, as the team finished the season
with a
13-7 record and reached the semifinals of the CAA Championship. The
team
finished the season ranked 21st in the NCAA Ratings Percentage Index
(RPI) for
the second consecutive year, and also received 23 votes in the final
STX/NFHCA
Division I Poll. De Angelis also saw star sophomore Charlia Warner earn
second
team All-America honors from NFHCA, the program's third All-American in
the
last three years. In addition, De Angelis led the Pride to an
undefeated record
at home (8-0) for the first time in program history.
In 2005 De
Angelis guided
the Pride to a 13-7 mark and a spot in the semifinals of the CAA
Championship.
The team finished the season ranked 21st in the RPI and received six
votes in
the final STX/NFHCA Division I Poll. The 13 wins matched her personal
best as
coach and tied for the second most wins in the history of the program.
2005
also saw De Angelis' star junior Doni-Melissa Jantzen earn third team
All-America honors for the second consecutive year. On a personal note,
De
Angelis posted career victory 100 in the Pride's 4-1 win over Drexel on
October
2.
The 2004
season saw De
Angelis lead her team to a 13-8 record, the most wins in her tenure and
the
second highest total in program history, and a berth in the Colonial
Athletic
Association Championship. Hofstra, which was seeded fourth, upset
top-seed and
13th-ranked William & Mary and became the first four seed to
advance to the
title game. The postseason appearance was also Hofstra's first since
the 1987
season. The 2004 squad also produced Hofstra's first All-American since
1999
Jantzen earned third team accolades.
De Angelis
led Hofstra to
an 8-0 start in 2003 en route to a 12-8 record, the second 12-win
season in her
tenure. That followed a 2002 season that saw the Pride post a 10-9
record after
joining the highly competitive Colonial Athletic Association. Hofstra
spent six
weeks in the 2002 STX/NFHCA Division I Poll, peaking at #18 following a
5-0
start to the season.
In 2001 De
Angelis led her
team to a 12-8 record. It marked the second straight year of
improvement for
the team after a 4-16 record in 1999. The 2001 season also saw Hofstra
return
to the national rankings as the team received votes in the STX/NFHCA
Poll on
two occasions.
During her
tenure at Hofstra
De Angelis has coached two All-Americans (totaling three selections),
seven
regional All-Americans (totaling 12 selections), 15 all-conference
players (23
selections) and 26 NFHCA Scholar-Athletes (45 selections).
The Lexington, Massachusetts, native came to Long Island from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State) in Springfield, Missouri, where she directed the
Lady Bears'
field hockey program during the 1996 and 1997 seasons. Prior to coaching Southwest Missouri State, De Angelis served as
head field
hockey coach and assistant fitness center director at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1992 through 1996.
A 1992
graduate of the
University of Massachusetts with a degree in sports management, De
Angelis was
a three-time All-American, earning first team honors in her junior and
senior
seasons, and honorable mention accolades as a sophomore, and was a
finalist for
the Honda Broderick Award as National Player of the Year and collegiate
woman
athlete of the year following her senior season. |
During her
career, she
helped
UMass achieve a 60-20-8 record, four Atlantic 10 conference titles, and
four
NCAA tournament appearances, including a Final Four berth in 1987. In
that 1987
NCAA tournament, De Angelis was named to the Final Four All-Tournament
Team.
Other individual honors included being named to the All-Atlantic 10
team twice,
the Atlantic 10 All-Tournament team and the all-region team. De Angelis
led the
team in scoring for three seasons, tallying 49 goals and 105 career
points. She
is currently ranked third on the Massachusetts career goals list and
fifth on the all-time scoring list.
While at Massachusetts, De Angelis was a member
of the
United States Field Hockey National Under-21 Team in 1987 and 1988, the
U.S.
National Reserve Team in 1988 and 1989, and the U.S. National Elite
Team in
1990 and 1991. She also competed in five U.S. Olympic Festivals from
1986
through 1991. During the summer of 2004 De Angelis played with the
Tempest in
the United Airlines Summer League.
De Angelis
began her
collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts in 1991, leaving to
become the head field hockey coach at LaSalle University in 1992. She has been
involved with the U.S. National Field Hockey coaching
staff since 1988, coaching in B, C, D and U.S. Super Camps. In 1999 she
coached
at the U.S. "A" Camp. During the summer of 2000, De Angelis coached
at the U.S. men's national team
trials at the Olympic Training Center in San Diego, California. She has also coached
for the U.S.
Olympic Developmental Program, and the U.S. National Futures Program,
including
stints as the under-15, under-18 and under-19 coach. Since 2005 De
Angelis has
served as a coach for the USA Field Hockey High Performance Training
Center's
New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania squad and led the team to the 2007 USA
Field
Hockey National Championship at the USA Training Center in Virginia
Beach,
Virginia, following third place finishes at the 2005 and 2006
tournaments.
De Angelis
also has
international experience as a player and coach, having played on the U.S. team's tour of Canada in 1987 and in the 1988
Pan American Games in Mar Del
Plata, Argentina, in which the United States captured a silver medal.
In 2004 De Angelis served as an assistant coach
for the Barbados national team, preparing
the squad and coaching during the Women's Pan
American Cup in Barbados. Following a strong
showing at
the Pan Am Cup, Barbados qualified for the 2006
Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
KATHY DE ANGELIS AT
HOFSTRA
1998 Hofstra University 6-13
1999 Hofstra University 4-16
2000 Hofstra University 8-12
2001 Hofstra University 12-8
2002 Hofstra University 10-9
2003 Hofstra
University 12-8
2004 Hofstra University 13-8
2005 Hofstra University 13-7
2006 Hofstra University 13-7
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