Patti Klecha-Porter enters
her 24th 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 eighth year as that team's
assistant coach in 2008-09. 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 five international trips, twice to Bermuda, once to
Barbados, once to Holland, and most recently to Argentina in the summer of 2008. 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 2008 season
with 151.
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 Lane -
Assistant Coach
(860) 685-2436 - jslane@wesleyan.edu
Jen Shea
Lane, 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 eighth 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. She followed that up with another 21-win season
in 2008 and a first-ever berth in the NESCAC Tournament championship
game. She was honored by the NESCAC as Co-Head Coach of the Year
in 2008. 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.
After assisting Patti at the Cardinal Field Hockey Camp in the summer of
2007, Lindsay Wasserman returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach
for the first time last fall. She also is an assistant coach for
the Wesleyan softball team during the spring. 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 and was named second-team
all-NESCAC in 2002. 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 had been the pitching coach for the Branford High
School softball team for three seasons (2005-07).
Patti Klecha-Porter enters
her 24th year on the Wesleyan staff as head coach of the field
hockey team. 
Jen Shea
Lane, 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 eighth 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. She followed that up with another 21-win season
in 2008 and a first-ever berth in the NESCAC Tournament championship
game. She was honored by the NESCAC as Co-Head Coach of the Year
in 2008. 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. 
After assisting Patti at the Cardinal Field Hockey Camp in the summer of
2007, Lindsay Wasserman returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach
for the first time last fall. She also is an assistant coach for
the Wesleyan softball team during the spring. 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 and was named second-team
all-NESCAC in 2002. 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 had been the pitching coach for the Branford High
School softball team for three seasons (2005-07).