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2014 Coaching Staff

Amanda Belichick - Interim Head Women's Lacrosse Coach

Amanda Belichick, head coach
     Amanda Belichick, a 2007 graduate of Wesleyan University, has been appointed interim head coach of women's lacrosse at the University for the 2014 season.  Amanda becomes the seventh individual to head the women's lacrosse program at Wesleyan as it heads into its 39th varsity campaign.
    Amanda has coached since concluding her four-year varsity lacrosse career with the Cardinals. She began coaching at Choate Rosemary Hall as head girl's lacrosse coach while also serving as an assistant in girl's soccer and JV girl's ice hockey coach. She then served as assistant coach at UMass Amherst in 2010 when the UMass women captured their second straight Atlantic-10 title and qualified for the NCAA Division I championship. For the past three years she has been an assistant coach at The Ohio State University. The Buckeyes ended the 2013 season 8-10.
    At Wesleyan, Amanda, playing on attack, accounted for 47 goals and 25 assists for 72 points during her career including a tremendous 52-point season in 2006. She posted six game-winning goals for Wesleyan in 2006, during its 9-8 season.  She served as a team captain during her senior year.
    Amanda also has coached at lacrosse camps over the years including the Amonte Sports Camp and The Lacrosse School.  She has club coaching experience as well including the Nor'Easter Lacrosse Team and Revolution Lacrosse.
 
Amy Siedlecki - Assistant Coach

asiedlecki@wesleyan.edu

Amy Siedlecki, assistant coach     Amy Siedlecki will be in her third season as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Wesleyan in 2014. Amy is a 2010 graduate of Williams College, where she was a member of the Eph women’s lacrosse squad for three years, including one year as a student assistant coach. She also played field hockey for four years and received the Robert L. Stone Leadership Award as a senior.
     Amy is the founder and director of Girls’ Sports Camp, an all-sports camp for girls ages 4-12 based in Madison, Conn. She also served as an NBC Sports and Olympics Executive Intern during summer 2009. Most recently, Amy served as an analyst for Sightlines, LLC, a company based in Guilford, Conn., that aims to help colleges and universities manage their facilities investments.  Her position at Wesleyan is full-time as an intern with both coaching and administrative duties.

 
Rob Stone - Assistant Coach

Rob Stone, assistant coach      An assistant coach at Wesleyan since 2004 with his 10th season as an assistant men's soccer coach in 2013, Rob Stone added his services to women's lacrosse in 2007.  He will be in his eighth year with that sport in 2014.  He also helped out with the Wesleyan women's ice hockey team during the 2008-09 campaign.  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 attending 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.