SUNY Oneonta

Oneonta, NY 13820

New York Northeast

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Mackenzie King

Mackenzie King completed her first season at Oneonta in 2024.

The Red Dragons reached the SUNYAC Tournament in 2024, and two players were named All-SUNYAC.

During her three seasons at RIT, King scheduled practices and individual training for the student-athletes and directed youth camps and prospect clinics. She also volunteered with the RIT women's lacrosse team for ROCE6, a local empowerment program for the inner city of Rochester's youth through lacrosse.

Before RIT, King was the assistant coach at Brockport from 2020 to 2022. She also worked as an intern to the athletic director to organize bus schedules and weekly events for the department. King helped the university's coaches and athletes reach and maintain NCAA eligibility and collaborate with peers on achieving the school's strategic plan and budget.

King was the head coach at 3D Common Goal Lacrosse in Rochester, NY, from 2019 to 2021. In that role, she organized practices for all competitions.

"She has great knowledge of Division III athletics as a student-athlete and a coach," continued Hooper. "She brings coaching experience from some very successful women's lacrosse programs. I look forward to watching her instill her philosophy into a very talented team."

King was a 2019 SUNY Potsdam graduate, earning a degree in communications and business administration. She was also a four-year member of the women's lacrosse team. King went on to receive her master's of education in athletic administration from SUNY Brockport in 2022.

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Emma Haring

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Peter Owens

Pete Owens was named by Oneonta in January of 2019 as the Head Coach for the men's lacrosse program after spending a year as the Interim Coach. Owens finished his seventh season as Oneonta's head coach in 2024.

The Red Dragons had the SUNYAC Rookie of the Year in 2023 and 2024. Oneonta had four All-SUNYAC selections in 2024, and two in the 2023 season.

Owens on his vision for Oneonta Lacrosse: “It is my expressed goal and genuine intent to make SUNY Oneonta one of the best places to play college lacrosse in the country. Consider everything that is a part of the student athlete experience: education, preparation, competition, travel, community service, team culture, campus life, etc. When student-athletes, prospects, families, opponents, other groups on campus, or onlookers add everything up, they will see that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ here at Oneonta.”

Entering his third year, the team has experienced steady improvement, climbing a spot in SUNYAC rankings in both 2018 and 2019. This past spring, the team finished second in conference in goals per game with 10.69, while attackman Stephen Panno was named SUNYAC Offensive Player of the Year.

A native of Baltimore, Md., Owens comes to Oneonta from Goucher College where he spent two seasons with the men’s program. In 2016, he worked primarily as the Offensive Coordinator while also being involved with the goalies and faceoff unit. That season, the Gophers finished in the top-10 for extra-man offense with a conversion rate of better than 47 percent while having the leading extra-man goal scorer in Division III.

Prior to Goucher, Owens served as the offensive coordinator at Gordon College in Massachusetts, for three seasons and helped lead the Fighting Scots to two conference playoff appearances in the nationally competitive Commonwealth Coast Conference.

He has also served on staff with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Lacrosse ministry, helping develop and manage their club lacrosse program. Owens was able to work with elite level lacrosse players many of whom are playing in Division I as scholarship athletes.

Owens graduated from Messiah College in 2011 where he received a degree in Sport Management while playing four years of lacrosse. During his playing career, the Falcons were a combined 39-26, reaching the MAC conference final twice.

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John Holland

Holland joined the coaching staff for both lacrosse programs in the spring of 2021.

Holland has spent over a decade in the game of lacrosse dating back to his playing days at Shaker High School. After graduating from Shaker, he continued his career at Widener University from 2011-15 eventually serving as Team Captain during his final season where he started all 17 games for the Pride. As a starting defender, Holland collected 39 ground balls while causing 20 turnovers in his senior campaign and was selected to the Mid-Atlantic Conference All-Conference Second Team.

Holland is currently the President of the North Colonie/Shaker Capitals Youth Lacrosse Club a position he has held since 2018. The Club is involved in developing community programs to help spread the game of lacrosse to young aspiring lacrosse athletes.

Holland graduated from Widener with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and served as the Team Leader of the Senior Engineering Project for the college.