Siena College

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Danielle Schwan-Tetreault

Danielle Schwan-Tetreault was named the program's eighth head coach on August 17, 2023.

“We are pleased to promote Danielle as our new women’s lacrosse head coach,” said Siena College Vice President and Director of Athletics John D’Argenio. “Danielle has been an integral part of our success over these past six years and we’re looking forward to reaching new heights under her leadership. During her tenure at Siena, she progressed through the coaching ranks from part time assistant, to full time assistant to associate head coach. She has been instrumental in the team's development and the recruitment of outstanding student athletes.”

From 2018-2023, Schwan-Tetreault served on staff for the duration of former coach Abigail Rehfuss' tenure.

Schwan-Tetreault spent her first five years on staff as assistant coach before being promoted to Associate Head Coach on August 11, 2022. A local product, Schwan-Tetreault graduated from nearby Guilderland High School in 2009 before starring on the field at Harvard University.

Schwan-Tetreault - alongside Rehfuss - has thrice guided the Saints to the MAAC Championship game (2019, 2021, 2023), producing 25 All-MAAC selections over her tenure. She has helped produce two MAAC Players of the Year in Sammy Horton (Goalkeeper, 2018) and Nicole McNeely (Offensive, 2022) as well as the 2023 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year Mary Soures and the 2018 MAAC Rookie of the Year Kerry Gerety.

"I am extremely grateful and excited to be appointed as the head women's lacrosse coach for Siena College. I want to thank John D'Argenio and the Siena administration for this opportunity. I also want to thank Abby for her passion and dedication to this program and for allowing me to grow beside her for the past six years. The Siena lacrosse program is incredibly special to me and I cannot wait to lead the Saints toward a MAAC Championship. Go Saints!"

Academically, the program tied a single-season high for the 2023 season with 20 student-athletes on the MAAC All-Academic Team and five student-athletes on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team, which recognized Hannah Field, Grace Dobrzynski, Colabufo, Bentley, and Kelly Logue. Additionally, Laura Bonomo was named an Arthur Ashe Junior Sports Scholar. As a whole, the team achieved a spring cumulative GPA of 3.65.

In 2022, Siena played host to the MAAC Championships for the first time in program history as they held a share of the MAAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in 17 years.

In 2021, she would help lift the Saints to an 11-3 record, putting up the highest single-season win percentage in program history (.786) while also setting a program-record with eight straight victories through the MAAC Semifinals. Despite the 2020 season being unexpectedly shortened, Schwan-Tetreault helped the Saints finish the year ranked second in the nation in fewest turnovers per-game and the MAAC leaders in clearing percentage.

One of the most standout notes of her Siena career so far, Schwan-Tetreault helped bring the Saints from a one-win MAAC team in 2018 to a new program record 12 wins in 2019 and a win away from the program's first MAAC Championship. Under her guidance, the Green and Gold had seven selected to All-MAAC teams, which is the program's second highest total in the team's 23 year history. Also under her watch, Kerry Gerety and McNeely would each break the single-season scoring record en route to the program's second appearance in the MAAC Championship game and first since 2005.

In the classroom, Schwan-Tetreault has helped promote a strong academic showing from the Saints. Siena was selected for IWLCA Academic Awards each of the last four years, with 2022 being the most successful. The Saints would have 15 individual players named to the IWLCA Division I Honor Roll, a new program record. Siena would also post a 3.67 team GPA. In 2022, the team also set a program record for most selections to the MAAC All-Academic Team and the highest team GPA of any Siena program.

Prior to entering the collegiate coaching field, Schwan-Tetreault played lacrosse at Harvard from 2009-2013, earning Preseason All-American accolades prior to her final two campaigns. A star midfielder, she was recognized as a two-time Ivy League Second Team selection, Ivy League Honorable Mention selection in 2013 and an All-Region First Team member in 2011. Schwan-Tetreault ranks 9th all-time in Crimson program history with 114 goals in her career and ranks 11th with 139 career points.

Tetreault is no stranger to Capital Region lacrosse, having served as the Head Coach for the Albany Elite Lacrosse Organization in Albany, New York. She also previously coached for the New York University Club Lacrosse team and the Brooklyn Lacrosse Organization. Currently, she also assists as an assistant coach of Rehfuss' lacrosse club team, 518 eXcelerate.

A standout at GHS, Schwan-Tetreault lettered all four years in soccer and lacrosse. She earned U.S Lacrosse All-American honors as a senior and honorable mention as a junior. Schwan-Tetreault was a two-time first-team Suburban Council All-Star along as well as Times Union and Troy Record All-Star. Schwan-Tetreault earned U.S Lacrosse Academic All-American status twice at Guilderland. She was the State Tournament Brine Choice Award winner. Schwan-Tetreault was named both the Times Union and Troy Record Offensive Player of the Year in 2009, also earning a spot on the New York State Tournament All-Tournament Team.

While at Harvard, Schwan-Tetreault spent 2012 and 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania in the Support For International Change (SIC) group. In 2012, she was a volunteer, where she taught and increased awareness of HIV/AIDS to people of all ages in rural villages. Schwan-Tetreault served as the program coordinator the following year, managing over 40 volunteers during a three-month community HIV education program.

Following graduation, she spent two years as a senior research assistant at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, New York, identifiying eligible patients for clinical trials and leading those patients through all the necessary procedural time points. Currently, she works for CapitalCare Family Practice as a Quality Initiatives Coordinator, helping to develop initiatives to improve performance in chronic disease management and prevention.

Schwan-Tetreault earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Neurobiology in 2013 with a minor in global health and healthy policy.

She resides in Latham with her husband Ian and their dog Koda.

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Tara Prosak

Tara Prosak enters her sixth season with Siena Women's Lacrosse for the 2024 season.

Prosak has helped guide the Saints to the MAAC Championship game on three occasions (2019, 2021 and 2023), producing 25 All-MAAC selections in the process. Among them were two MAAC Players of the Year in Sammy Horton (Goalkeeper, 2019) and Nicole McNeely (Offensive, 2022) as well as the 2023 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year Mary Soures and the 2018 MAAC Rookie of the Year Kerry Gerety.

Academically, the program tied a single-season high for the 2023 season with 20 student-athletes on the MAAC All-Academic Team and five student-athletes on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team, which recognized Hannah Field, Grace Dobrzynski, Colabufo, Bentley, and Kelly Logue. Additionally, Laura Bonomo was named an Arthur Ashe Junior Sports Scholar. As a whole, the team achieved a spring cumulative GPA of 3.65.

In 2022, Siena played host to the MAAC Championships for the first time in program history as they held a share of the MAAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in 17 years.

Under Prosak's mentorship in 2019, the Green and Gold had seven selected to All-MAAC teams, including the program's most-tenured goalie Sammy Horton, who earned MAAC Goalkeeper of the Year and First Team honors. Horton also set the program record for wins in a season with 12, breaking the previous program record of 10. Under the watch of Prosak, Horton maintained one of the highest save percentages in the NCAA throughout the 2019 season.

In 2021, she would help guide the Saints to an 11-3 record, putting up the highest single-season win percentage in program history (.786) while also setting a program-record with eight straight victories through the MAAC Semifinals. Despite the 2020 season being unexpectedly shortened, Prosak helped the Saints finish the year ranked second in the nation in fewest turnovers per game and the MAAC leader in clearing percentage.

During her first year on staff in 2019 with head coach Abigail Rehfuss, Prosak helped bring the Saints from a one-win MAAC team prior to her arrival to a new program record 12 wins in 2019 and a win away from the program's first MAAC Championship.

In the classroom, Prosak has helped promote a strong academic showing from the Saints. Siena was selected for IWLCA Academic Awards each of the last four years, with 2022 being the most successful. The Saints would have 15 individual players named to the IWLCA Division I Honor Roll, a new program record. Siena would also post a 3.67 team GPA. In 2022, the team also set a program record for most selections to the MAAC All-Academic Team and the highest team GPA of any Siena program.

In her time away from Siena, Prosak assists as an assistant coach of the 518 eXcelerate club lacrosse team.

Prosak returned home to the northeast after spending the 2017-18 academic year earning her master’s and playing for Durham University in the United Kingdom, where she assisted the team in capturing the 2018 British University National Championship.

Prosak spent the 2017 season as an assistant coach with Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, assisting the Gaels in defensive coordination, game strategy and goalkeeper development.

Her work across the pond began in 2014, when she spent two years as the lead development officer for the English Lacrosse Association in Reading, UK. Prosak was responsible for spreading the sport by recruiting players, arranging lacrosse related events and managing up to seven teams at one time, which included a season at Oxford University coaching the school's first and second teams. Additionally, Prosak had the opportunity to work with the U19 Development Team for the English National Academy as a Goalkeeper coach, as well as the Scottish National Team.

Prior to her time in England, Prosak was involved in various youth programs and camps throughout her collegiate career.

A four-year letter winner at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, Prosak started all 64 career games from 2011-14, captaining the squad during her senior season. A two-time Empire 8 Goalkeeper of the Year in 2013 & 14, she earned First Team All-Conference honors in each of her final two campaigns, receiving Honorable Mention nods her first two seasons. A participant in the 2014 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Star Game, she finished her career ranked second in program history with 517 saves.

A native of Jamesville, NY, Prosak received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in sports management in May 2014, graduating with a 3.7 GPA and earning a spot on the Dean’s List each semester. She earned her master’s in business management from Durham in September 2018.

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Sarah Martin

Martin enters her first season with the Saints after beginning her tenure on September 26, 2023.

Martin had spent the previous four seasons building up the Saint Rose women’s lacrosse program. Beginning in September of 2020, Martin started from the bottom up and eventually led the Golden Knights to an eight-win improvement crossing the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

Historically, it marked the first winning season for the program at 9-8. Along the way, Saint Rose defeated three nationally-ranked opponents including #18 New Haven, #16 Bentley, and #23 Saint Anselm’s.

Academically, the program achieved high honors as it was named an Academic Merit Squad by the IWLCA in 2022. The Golden Knights finished third among all Division II women’s lacrosse teams academically with a combined GPA of 3.63. It also received the highest team academic excellence award in the Northeast-10 conference.

Prior to that tenure, Martin spent three seasons as the assistant coach at RPI where the Engineers qualified for the Liberty League Tournament and reached the 2018 Semifinals.

Prior to entering the collegiate coaching field, Martin starred as a First Team All-American at UAlbany in her senior season where the Hampden, Mass. native tallied a program single-season record 109 points including 63 goals and 46 assists. That spring, Martin was nominated for the Tewaaraton Trophy as a senior.

She was drafted by the Long Island Sound of the United Women’s Lacrosse League (UWLX) after she closed her Great Danes’ career with 219 points (137 goals and 82 assists).

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Liam Gleason

Liam Gleason was named the 10th head coach in Siena Lacrosse history on June 26, 2018. The Capital Region native enters his sixth season at the helm of the program for the 2024 season.

It was a banner year for coach Gleason in 2023 as he successfully guided the Saints to the MAAC Championship Game for the first time since 2014 and earned its most victories (nine) since the team last won the MAAC title that same season. Along their playoff journey, Siena defeated top seeded (RV) Manhattan 11-8 at Riverdale's Gaelic Park in a MAAC Semifinal. And, for the first time in program history, Siena hosted its first postseason game at Hickey Field and defeated #5 Sacred Heart 13-11 in a MAAC Quarterfinal. It also marked the first time since 2014 that the team had won a postseason game.

Four student-athletes were named to the Men's Lacrosse All-MAAC Teams. Junior defense Trevor Marsala was selected to the All-MAAC First Team while All-MAAC Second Team honors went to junior defense Brian Mack, graduate student midfielder Christian Watts and graduate student goalkeeper Christopher Yanchoris. Marsala also became the first player in program history to be named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) squad as he was one of 13 total selections across the Northeast to be honored. Watts was selected for the United States Intercollegiate Association (USILA) Senior All-Star Game at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pa. Additionally, Yanchoris was the first player in program history to be twice named a USILA Division I Scholar All-American.

Under the direction of Gleason, the Saints once again achieved a high GPA collectively as the team earned the USILA Team Academic award for a second consecutive season (3.35 term GPA and 3.27 cumulative GPA). 21 student-athletes on the team earned at least a 3.5 GPA for the spring team and four were named to the College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District Team including Jack Erb, George Rusnak, Pratt Reynolds and Yanchoris.

In 2022, Gleason guided the Saints to the Metro Atlantic Conference Championships as the No. 4 seed, the first such earned postseason achievement since 2014. Siena went 6-9 overall with a 3-3 mark in conference play.

Under Gleason's watch, five student-athletes received recognition onto the All-MAAC Teams. Reynolds took home three postseason honors, most recognizably the MAAC Rookie of the Year. Reynolds becomes the first player in program history since Bryan Neufeld in 2009 to win the league's Rookie of the Year honor, and fourth overall winner. Reynolds also took home All-MAAC Second Team Attack honors, as well as a selection to the MAAC All-Rookie Team.

Graduate student Jack Kiernan took home an All-MAAC First Team Attack selection, while Marsala (defense), Nick Pepe (short stick midfield), and Yanchoris (goalkeeper) all took home All-MAAC Second Team honors.

in 2021, Gleason coached a pair of Saints to First Team All-MAAC honors and one MAAC All-Rookie Team selection.

Despite the 2020 season being shortened, Siena collected a pair of non-conference wins over LIU and NJIT, both coming at home. The Saints finished the season fifth in the nation in caused turnovers per-game (10.33) and saves per-game (14.83).

Just a year into his tenure, the Saints went 6-7 overall in his first season in 2019, and saw four players from the Green and Gold earn All-MAAC honors. Prior to his appointment to head coach, Gleason spent seven seasons as the associate head coach at perennial national power UAlbany.

“I’m extremely honored for the opportunity to return to Siena College and head the men’s lacrosse program,” said Gleason, who previously served as an assistant coach for the Saints under Brian Brecht from 2008-10. “I’d like to thank Vice President and Director of Athletics John D’Argenio, Associate Director of Athletics Lori Anctil, and the entire search committee for choosing me to be the next head coach. Additionally, I’d like to thank UAlbany Head Coach Scott Marr and Director of Athletics Mark Benson for my fantastic experience over the past few years which helped prepare me to take on this new role. I’m excited for the opportunity to build Siena back into a MAAC Championship contender, and I look forward to rekindling the relationships I previously made with our loyal alumni base.”

In 10 prior seasons in the Division I coaching ranks at both Siena and UAlbany, Gleason’s teams have made seven NCAA Tournament appearances, won six conference tournament championships, and captured eight regular season titles. Overall, his squads have posted a combined 123-52 (.703) record including a 56-7 (.889) mark in conference action.

“We are excited to welcome Liam back to Siena,” remarked D’Argenio upon Gleason's appointment. “It was very evident when he was here previously that he possessed the makeup to be a successful head coach. He comes from an outstanding program at UAlbany where he was part of the team’s national success, while also being an accomplished recruiter in the geographic areas where Siena has been successful in the past.”

UAlbany earned berths to the NCAA Tournament in each of Gleason’s final six seasons with the program, punctuated by the school’s first-ever trip to Championship Weekend this spring. The Great Danes amassed an 89-35 (.717) overall record including a 36-3 (.923) ledger in the America East Conference, while capturing six regular season and five tournament titles over his seven seasons with the program from 2012-18. Gleason, who also served as UAlbany’s defensive coordinator, developed 25 All-Conference defensive players throughout his tenure with the program.

In 2018, Gleason helped guide UAlbany to a program record-tying 16 wins and the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament Semifinals appearance. The Great Danes were the No. 1 ranked team in the nation in both the USILA Coaches’ and Inside Lacrosse Media Polls for six consecutive weeks from Feb. 26 – Apr. 2, and had six players earn USILA All-American honors. Gleason was instrumental in the development of USILA Most Outstanding Goalie and First Team All-American JD Colarusso, and his defensive unit ranked 11th nationally in scoring defense (8.63).

Gleason previously helped guide UAlbany to peak rankings of No. 4 nationally in both 2016 and 2017, and in 2017 administered the nation’s top-man down unit at 82%. The Great Danes advanced at least as far as the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament in four of his final five seasons with the program.

Gleason earned his first collegiate head coaching position when he was appointed the first head coach of nearby Division II The College of Saint Rose in 2011. He helped start the fledgling Golden Knights’ program, laying the groundwork for the school’s inaugural season in 2012.

Gleason first entered the coaching ranks serving as Brecht’s assistant and defensive coordinator at Siena for three seasons from 2008-10. Gleason helped orchestrate one of the most definitive three-year runs in Siena Lacrosse history, which culminated with the program’s first-ever MAAC Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009. The Saints posted a 34-17 (.667) overall record including a 20-4 (.833) league mark over Gleason’s three seasons, winning MAAC Regular Season Championships in both 2009 and 2010.

Under Gleason’s defensive direction, the Saints led the nation in scoring defense with a 6.25 mark in 2008, and ranked second nationally in both goals against average (6.5) and man-down efficiency (82%) in 2009. He oversaw a defensive unit which boasted a pair of future Siena Athletics Hall of Famers in defenseman Chris Viviano ’09 and goalie Brent Herbst ’11, who were named the MAAC Defensive Players of the Year in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

A 2007 graduate of UAlbany with a BA in sociology and a minor in education, Gleason played in 28 games spanning two seasons for the Great Danes after transferring in from Division II Adelphi University. He was selected 33rd overall in the Fourth Round of the 2007 Major League Lacrosse Supplemental Draft by the New Jersey Pride.

A native of Wading River, New York, Gleason and his wife, the former Jaclyn Rosada who starred for the UAlbany Women’s Soccer program from 2006-09, are the proud parents of a seven-year-old daughter, Kennedy, a four-year-old son, Penn, and a two-year-old son, Tate.