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2012 Coaching Staff

Holly Wheeler - Head Women's Lacrosse Coach
(860) 685-2906 - hwheeler@wesleyan.edu

Holly Wheeler, head coach
     Holly Wheeler is in her 12th year as a full-time physical education faculty member with a current rank of adjunct associate professor and 12th year as head coach of women's lacrosse in 2012. She started at Wesleyan in the spring of 2000 as interim head coach of women's lacrosse. She also served as head women's soccer coach for four seasons (2000-03) but assumed assistant coaching duties in that sport during the 2004 campaign and continues in that post. 
     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.
 
Heather Dobson - Assistant Coach
(860) 685-5984 - hdobson@wesleyan.edu
Eva Meredith, assistant coach
     A 2009 graduate of Springfield College, where she was a four-year starter in women's lacrosse and team captain as a senior, Heather Dobson is in her second year as an athletic department intern and assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Wesleyan in 2012. While at Springfield, Heather twice received all-NEWMAC accolades, including first-team honors in 2009. She helped the Pride capture the 2006 NEWMAC title and also led the 2009 squad to the conference title game. Heather, who was a Presidential Scholarship recipient at Springfield, finished her career tied for 14th on the school’s all-time scoring list with 126 points (95 goals, 31 assists).
     Heather served as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Salve Regina during the 2010 season and has also worked with three high school select lacrosse teams. She coached at the Longmeadow (Mass.) Youth Lacrosse program from 2002-05 and has assisted at the Peak 200 Recruiting Camp at Springfield since 2007.
     In addition to her coaching responsibilities at Wesleyan, Heather has administrative duties which include assisting in athletic facility management.
 
Eva Meredith - Director of Lacrosse Operations/Assistant Coach
(860) 685-3585 - emeredith@wesleyan.edu
Eva Meredith, assistant coach
     Eva 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 eighth season with the spring activity.  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, Eva 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.
     Eva holds the rank of adjunct associate professor at Wesleyan.
 
Rob Stone - Assistant Coach

Rob Stone, assistant coach      An assistant coach at Wesleyan since 2004 with eight seasons now as an assistant men's soccer coach, Rob Stone added his services to women's lacrosse in 2007.  He is now in his sixth year with that sport.  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.

 
Amy Siedlecki - Assistant Coach

Amy Siedlecki, assistant coach     Amy Siedlecki will be in her first season as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Wesleyan this spring. 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.