Patti Klecha-Porter enters her 23rd year on the Wesleyan staff as head coach of the field hockey team. 
      Joining the Wesleyan staff in 1985, Patti is an adjunct professor of physical education at the University. In 1999, she was honored as NESCAC field hockey Coach of the Year. Patti also served as head women's squash coach for 15 seasons (1986-2001) but will be in her seventh year as that team's assistant coach in 2007-08. Leading the field hockey Cardinals to back-to-back ECAC New England Division III titles in 1999 and 2000, Patti guided the team to its most victories in team history with 13 both those seasons.  Patti has taken her squads on four international trips, twice to Bermuda, once to Barbados and most recently to Holland in the summer of 2004. Patti's first victory of the 2002 season, a 3-1 win over Mount Holyoke to inaugurate a 10-6 campaign, was the 100th of her Wesleyan career.  She enters the 2007 season with 144.
      In 2005, Patti was honored by the Connecticut Field Hockey Coaches Association with its Chickie Poisson Award for distinguished service to the sport and in Sept., 2007, Patti was inducted into the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame.
      A 1981 graduate of Ithaca College where she was a team captain and MVP in both field hockey and lacrosse, Patti was inducted into her alma mater's Sports Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1989, Patti also was named to a New York State sectional sports hall of fame. Patti earned her M.S. degree from Springfield College while serving as head coach of lacrosse and a field hockey assistant. Before enrolling at Springfield, Patti spent two years teaching and coaching in the Phelps-Clifton Springs, N.Y. school system.
      A veteran of the Olympic Sports Festival, competing in field hockey, Patti also has played internationally. She formerly played in the Hampshire Field Hockey Association and helped her club team, Stars & Stripes, attain renown as a perennial power.
      Always active at summer field hockey camps, Patti directs the Cardinal Field Hockey Camp at Wesleyan.
      She holds an International Umpiring rating, the highest level for umpires in the game of women's lacrosse, and umpired at the IFWLA World Cup during the summer of 2001 in Wycombe, England as well as the summer of 2005 in Annapolis, Md., and has officiated numerous NCAA Division I Tournament contests including the 2007 National Championship game.

Jen Shea - Assistant Coach
(860) 685-2436 - jashea@wesleyan.edu

     Jen Shea, a 1998 graduate of Amherst College where she was a standout softball pitcher and defender in field hockey, will serve as Patti's assistant coach for a seventh year. As head softball coach at Wesleyan since 2002, Jen directed the team to its winningest season in history in 2007 with a 21-15 record and its first-ever spot in the NESCAC tournament.  Jen was co-head coach of Amherst's softball team for the 2000 and 2001 seasons and an assistant coach in 1999.  She also assisted with Amherst's field hockey team for two seasons following her graduation including the 1999 campaign when the Lord Jeffs finished as national runners-up. In the fall of 2000, she was a field hockey coach at the Williston-Northampton School. While coaching at Amherst, Jen earned her Master's degree in exercise and sports studies at Smith College. During the summers, Jen works at the Cardinal Field Hockey Camp at Wesleyan and the Wilton Field Hockey Camp.  She is an adjunct assistant professor of physical education at Wesleyan.

Lindsay Wasserman - Assistant Coach
lwasserman@wesleyan.edu

     After assisting Patti at the Cardinal Field Hockey Camp in the summer of 2007, Lindsay Wasserman returns to her alma mater as an assistant coach for the first time this fall.  A 2003 Wesleyan graduate, Lindsay was a standout two-sport athlete for the Cardinals, serving as a team captain in both field hockey and softball as a senior.  She also received team MVP honors in the latter sport that year.  As a four-year goalie and two-year starter, Lindsay played every minute in net for the field hockey squad in 2001 and 2002.  She ended her career with a 19-15 record which included eight shutouts. As a starting pitcher in softball, Lindsay holds team marks for appearances in a season and career (29/104), starts (25/81), complete games (20/75) and innings pitched (154/552).  She also is second in career strikeouts with 277. Lindsay went on to earn her M. Ed. degree from Quinnipiac University in 2005 and taught high school for two years before accepting a position at Polson Middle School in Madison, teaching eighth-grade history.  She has been the pitching coach for the Branford High School softball team for three seasons.