Collinsville native Ashley Snow has been named the new women’s lacrosse head coach at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont.
The announcement came Monday and Snow is on the job this week, according to Associate Director of Athletics Meggan Dulude.
“I am honored to join Saint Michael’s as the head of women’s lacrosse, and excited to compete in such a talented conference,” Snow said. “We have a great group of student-athletes that are ready to make something happen and have a little fun along the way, so I look forward to getting right to work and seeing where the season takes us.”
Snow spent last spring as head coach at Mitchell in New London, Connecticut, where she helped the Mariners triple their win total from the 2022 season.
She was an assistant coach at Greensboro College (North Carolina) in 2022 after assisting Hanover College (Indiana) between 2018 and 2020.
Snow helped Hanover to a 22-19 overall mark in that time, including 12-5 in league play, as the Panthers qualified for an Ohio River Lacrosse Conference Tournament semifinal in 2018.
They then advanced to the Heartland Collegiate Lacrosse Conference title game the following season.
Snow coached student-athletes who landed nine all-conference and 11 academic all-conference accolades and set school records for team goals and assists in 2018.
“We are very excited to have Coach Snow join our athletics team and lead our women’s lacrosse program,” Dulude said. “Throughout the search process, Ashley distinguished herself as a student-athlete-centered professional who has forged opportunities through hard work and whose focus on creating relationships has shaped the programs she has coached.”
Snow brings additional leadership experience as a summer camp director. She served as the Kents Hill Sports Camp Director of Lacrosse in Maine in 2022 for girls ages 8 to 16 and Camp Starlight Head of Girls’ Softball and Lacrosse in Pennsylvania for two years.
She previously worked in marketing and promotions for the National Pro Fastpitch softball league during the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
A 2010 graduate of Collinsville High School, Snow never played lacrosse until she got to college and, even then, said she stumbled upon it.
After two years of softball at Grayson College, she transferred to Oklahoma Baptist University where she played JV softball.
“When I was at OBU, they launched what was the only women’s lacrosse team in Oklahoma,” Snow said. “There were open tryouts… they invited everyone. I made the team, stuck it out and fell in love with the game.”
Snow said learning a whole new sport was challenging.
“I took a few skills from all the other sports I’d played and applied them to lacrosse,” she said.
She said she also loves to run— an integral skill in the game.
“At my first game (OBU) my coach told me ‘you look like a lost puppy out there.’ I told her I felt like one. She said, ‘Good, now get back out there,’” Snow said.
While at OBU, she also completed a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies: kinesiology, psychology and sports management in fall 2016 while serving as a marketing and promotions intern at her alma mater that school year.
St. Michael’s is a private Catholic institution that offers 21 varsity sports— 10 for men and 11 for women.
The Purple Knights compete in the NCAA Division II Northeast Conference along with Adelphi University, American International College, Assumption University, Bentley University, Franklin Pierce University, University of New Haven, Pace University, Saint Anselm College, College of Saint Rose, Southern Connecticut University and Southern New Hampshire University.
The lacrosse season starts March 2.
