Katharine DeLorenzo

DeLorenzo enters her 20th season as head coach of the Middlebury field hockey program in 2020-21, after six years as head coach at Skidmore. Over her 19 seasons at Middlebury, she has compiled a remarkable 308-62 record, leading the Panthers to eight NCAA Championship game appearances and 17 consecutive NCAA Tournament berths (2003-2019). She guided the team to NCAA titles in 2015, 2017, and 2019, with a 1-0 win over Bowdoin (2015), a 4-0 victory against Messiah (2017), and a 2-0 win over Tufts (2018). In 2019, the Panthers claimed their third-straight NCAA title, defeating Franklin & Marshall 1-0.

DeLorenzo has earned numerous coaching accolades, including New England Coach of the Year (2003, 2004), NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year (2003, 2015, 2019), and NESCAC Coach of the Year (2003, 2012, 2013, 2014). Her staff was named NFHCA Coaching Staff of the Year in 2017, 2018, and 2019, and the Panthers won NESCAC titles in 2003, 2012-2014, and 2017-2019.

A 1990 graduate of Goucher College, DeLorenzo was an All-American in field hockey, lacrosse, and swimming. She was inducted into Goucher's Hall of Fame in 2013. She earned a master’s in athletic administration from Indiana State University in 1992 before beginning her coaching career at DePauw University. She then coached field hockey and lacrosse at Oberlin College and Skidmore, where she led the field hockey team to NCAA Tournament appearances in 1998 and 1999, and was named UCAA Coach of the Year both seasons.

DeLorenzo is an active member of national field hockey committees and directs clinics and Nike field hockey camps. She is also involved with the United States Field Hockey Association’s Futures Program.

Lauren McNally

Lauren was an Education major (PK-4) who earned Academic All-Big Ten honors twice and was named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad twice. On the field, she played in 27 games and started nine. During her junior season in 2018, she appeared in 11 games, starting eight, and took a shot in Penn State’s NCAA tournament match against Harvard. In her sophomore season, she played in 11 games, including her first career start against Princeton, and contributed a shot in a 6-0 win over Wake Forest. As a redshirt freshman in 2016, she played in five games and redshirted her freshman year in 2015.

In high school, she was a four-year letter winner and team captain, scoring 67 goals and 54 assists in 72 games. She led her team to two state championships and three South Jersey titles, earning multiple first-team All-State and All-South Jersey honors. She also played for the Spirit of USA club, winning national titles and participating in the Junior Olympics and National Futures Championships. A member of the U17 National Team, she was selected for the 2014 Futures Elite Championships.

Her parents, George and Wendy McNally, both graduated from Penn State, and her family has strong athletic ties, with her father playing basketball at Shippensburg University and her sister Danielle playing field hockey at Indiana University.