Lauren Sickel joins the Bryant University coaching staff as assistant coach in 2009 to help guide the Bulldogs to continued success in their second season at the Division I level.
Sickel comes to Bryant after stints as an assistant coach with both the Boston College field hockey program in 2008 and former Division II foe UMass Lowell in 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.
But before joining the 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, She was also named a captain as a junior and senior. In 2007, Providence honored Sickel with the prestigious Female Athlete of the Year.
In the summer of 2007 and 2008, Sickel was a member of the US High Performance New England team, competing for the National Championship in Virginia Beach, Va. in 2007. 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.
