Lauren Sickel enters her third season as a member of the Bryant University field hockey coaching staff. With the help of Coach Sickle, the Bulldogs became the first team in school history to qualify for a Division I postseason with a Northeast Conference tournament appearance in the fall of 2010. The Bulldogs ended the season third in the conference standings with a 8-12, 5-2 NEC record. 

Sickel came to Bryant in 2009 after stints as an assistant coach with both the Boston College field hockey program (2008) and former Division II foe UMass Lowell (2007).

While with the River Hawks, Sickel helped lead Lowell to a 19-3 season in which the team won the Northeast-10 Conference regular-season title for the second time in five years, also winning the tournament title for the fifth-consecutive season. The River Hawks lost in the NCAA Division II Championship game to Bloomsburg.

Before joining the college coaching ranks, Sickel enjoyed a successful playing career at crosstown Providence College from 2003-07. A three-time All-Big East selection and NFHCA All-Northeast Region nominee, Sickel earned NFHCA All-American third-team honors as a senior and was selected to play in the NFHCA Senior All-Star Game.

Racking up 26 points on 10 goals and six assists in her career, Sickle was named captain as a junior and senior. In 2007, Providence honored Sickel with the prestigious Female Athlete of the Year award.

In the summer of 2007 and 2008, Sickel was a member of the US High Performance New England team, competing for the 2007 national championship in Virginia Beach, Va. In 2008, she joined the coaching staff and continues to coach for the New England High Performance team through the New England training center. She is currently coaching in the US Field Hockey Futures program in Region 3A for Rhode Island and Northeastern Connecticut.

A Plaistow, N.H., native, Sickel has three sisters, Kadi, who played field hockey at Iowa from 2004-08, and twins Julie and Chelsea, who currently play field hockey at Kent State. Sickel graduated from Procidence College in 2007 with a degree in sociology with a minor in economics.