After serving as
interim head coach of women's lacrosse at Wesleyan during the 2000
spring season, Holly Wheeler is in her ninth year as a full-time physical education
faculty member and 10th year as head coach of women's
lacrosse in 2009. She also served as head women's soccer coach for four
seasons but assumed assistant coaching duties in that sport during
the 2004 campaign. A 1999 graduate of Princeton
University, Holly was a starting defender in
lacrosse for the perennial national Division I
power Tigers. Princeton captured two Ivy League
titles and qualified for the NCAA Division I
tournament three times between 1996 and 1999.
Holly also has been active at lacrosse camps each
summer since 1996, having founded and coached
at the Banana Lacrosse Camp in Weston during
1995-96, and founding and coaching at The Lacrosse School at
Wesleyan since 2003. Holly also was a standout
schoolgirl soccer player during her days at Weston (Mass.) High
School. At Weston, she was a team captain and all-league performer
while also playing for the Charles River United U-17 club team and
qualifying for a high-school all-star team that toured England,
Scotland and Ireland.
Eva Bergsten Meredith- Assistant Coach
(860) 685-3585 - emeredith@wesleyan.edu
Eva Bergsten Meredith was appointed as the faculty head coach of women's soccer
at Wesleyan in 2004 and added the sport of lacrosse as an assistant
coach to her resume, now in her fifth season with the spring sport.
Eva had been coaching at the University of Hartford for six years
(1998-2003), her first three as assistant women's soccer coach
and the last three as head coach, before coming to Wesleyan. During her tenure with the Hawks, Hartford won
three American East conference titles and competed in the NCAA
Division I championships five times. An outstanding soccer player both on the
national level in her home country of Sweden and as a collegian at
Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, Eva was a National Team
player for Sweden from 1989-1991 and a premier league player there
from 1986-1992. Attending Franklin Pierce from 1992-1995, Eva was
a four-time all-New England choice, a three-time All-American and
the NCAA Division II National Player of the Year as a freshman.
She also was a two-time academic All-American and was a three-year
team captain as Franklin Pierce captured NCAA titles in both 1994
and 1995. In addition to coaching at Hartford,
Bergsten coached the U-18 girls premier squad West Hartford United
for a year and directed the Lady Hawk Soccer School each of her
years at Hartford.
Rob Stone - Assistant
Coach
Serving as an assistant coach at Wesleyan for the first time in
2004 as an assistant men's soccer coach, Rob Stone added his services to
women's lacrosse in 2007. He is now in his third year with that sport.
This past winter, he also helped out with the Wesleyan women's ice hockey
team. With formal college coaching experience in
lacrosse as an assistant at Williams College in 2005 and Skidmore College
in 2006, Rob also has coached women's lacrosse at the club level while his
daughters, one of whom was a team captain at Williams in 2005 and another
at Loyola (Md.) where she earned third-team All-America honors from
Inside Lacrosse Magazine as well as IWLCA regional All-America and all-Big
East accolade in 2008, were active in summer
leagues. In soccer, Rob had 20 years at the Nichols School in Buffalo,
N.Y. combined with a short stint at St. Lawrence University. Rob played
soccer at St. Lawrence from 1972 to 1975, captaining the team in his
senior year. In addition to earning his undergraduate degree from St.
Lawrence, Rob also received an M.Ed. in 1978. He has since
followed his passion for teaching and coaching by grooming high-school
students for the college rigors in the classroom and on the field. He
helped mold former two-year men's soccer captain Padraig Hughes '03 into an all-NESCAC
student-athlete while he was the Nichols School.
Rob holds an advanced national diploma from the NSCAA and a C License
from the USSF. He started a youth soccer program in Lake George, N.Y. and
has been involved with the Empire State games.
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Holly
Wheeler - Head Women's Lacrosse Coach
Eva Bergsten Meredith was appointed as the faculty head coach of women's soccer
at Wesleyan in 2004 and added the sport of lacrosse as an assistant
coach to her resume, now in her fifth season with the spring sport.
Serving as an assistant coach at Wesleyan for the first time in
2004 as an assistant men's soccer coach, Rob Stone added his services to
women's lacrosse in 2007. He is now in his third year with that sport.
This past winter, he also helped out with the Wesleyan women's ice hockey
team. With formal college coaching experience in
lacrosse as an assistant at Williams College in 2005 and Skidmore College
in 2006, Rob also has coached women's lacrosse at the club level while his
daughters, one of whom was a team captain at Williams in 2005 and another
at Loyola (Md.) where she earned third-team All-America honors from
Inside Lacrosse Magazine as well as IWLCA regional All-America and all-Big
East accolade in 2008, were active in summer
leagues. In soccer, Rob had 20 years at the Nichols School in Buffalo,
N.Y. combined with a short stint at St. Lawrence University. Rob played
soccer at St. Lawrence from 1972 to 1975, captaining the team in his
senior year. In addition to earning his undergraduate degree from St.
Lawrence, Rob also received an M.Ed. in 1978. He has since
followed his passion for teaching and coaching by grooming high-school
students for the college rigors in the classroom and on the field. He
helped mold former two-year men's soccer captain Padraig Hughes '03 into an all-NESCAC
student-athlete while he was the Nichols School.