Head Field Hockey Coach
meckenro@ycp.edu
717-815-6611
Head Field Hockey Coach
Jen Dragoni
Head Women's Lacrosse Coach
jdragoni@ycp.edu
717-815-1516
Head Women's Lacrosse Coach / Asst. Field Hockey Coach
York College Dean of Athletics and Recreation
Sean Sullivan is happy to announce that Jennifer Dragoni has been
selected as the new Spartan women’s lacrosse coach, effective
August 6, 2007. Dragoni replaces Allison Fordyce who had led the
women’s lacrosse program for the first two years of the
program. Fordyce resigned as her husband, Brad Fordyce, was
recently named the defensive coordinator and head strength and
conditioning coach position at Susquehanna University.
Dragoni comes to York from Goucher College
where she served as the assistant women’s lacrosse coach for
the past two years. She earned her Masters Degree in Education from
Goucher as she was a Gopher from 2006 and 2007. Dragoni was
responsible for assisting the head coach in all of the day-to-day
aspects of running the Division III program. She assisted in
planning practice, game strategies, student-athlete recruitment,
scouting opponents, and game-tape breakdown.
Dragoni began her coaching career at
UMBC as she was an assistant coach in the spring of 2005.
That coaching stint followed a stellar four year career for the
Retrievers. Dragoni was a four-year starter at UMBC and was a
captain during her senior year. Dragoni holds the UMBC career
record with 63 assists while her 123 goals ranks her seventh on the
Retrievers’ career list. She currently sits fifth on
UMBC’s career scoring list with 186 points. She was a
three-time All-Northeast Conference selection including being the
conference Player-of-the-Year in 2003. Dragoni was named
UMBC’s outstanding senior female athlete in 2003-04.
Dragoni is happy to get the chance to run her
own squad.
“I am so thankful for the opportunity to
lead my own program,” states Dragoni. “I have
worked very hard to prepare for this opening and I am very
happy to get this chance at York College. This program has taken
big strides in its two years of existence and I expect to continue
to build on those successes.”
Dragoni inherits a program that won 13 games in
its first two seasons including seven victories and a Capital
Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal win in 2007.
Sullivan was happy that Dragoni accepted the
position.
“Obviously we are pleased to get an
energetic young coach that has an impressive playing and coaching
resume,” says Sulllivan. “I am very impressed
with Jennifer’s desire to take our team to the next
level.”
Dragoni returns five of the Spartans’ top
seven scorers from last year while ten starters return for the 2008
season.




