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Amherst College

Amherst College Athletics
 266 South Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01002
Division 3 Massachusetts Northeast
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Brooke Diamond O'Brien

Brooke Diamond O'Brien '03 joined the women's lacrosse staff as the head coach in the summer of 2022. The 2024 season is her second season with the Mammoths.


In her first season, O'Brien coached the Mammoths to a 9-6 record, reaching the NESCAC Quarterfinals. In her inaugural season, she saw two players named to All-NESCAC teams, with Colleen Mooney '23 earning First Team honors. The women's lacrosse team ended the season ranked 18th nationally.


O'Brien returns to Amherst after spending the previous 15 years as the head coach of women's lacrosse at Washington & Lee University, where she compiled a 221-60 (.786 win percentage) mark and was named conference coach of the year nine times. She guided the Generals to a 19-3 mark in 2022, a conference championship and a spot in the NCAA Div. III Tournament quarterfinals.


A native of Longmeadow, Mass., and an alumnus of the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn., O'Brien graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst in 2003 with a bachelor of arts in psychology and law, jurisprudence and social thought. She earned a total of 12 letters as a member of the women's lacrosse, women's soccer and women's basketball teams and served as a captain for all three sports.


In lacrosse, she was a two-time First Team All-America selection and two-time Kelly Award winner as the Division III National Goaltender of the Year. She was named the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division III Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was selected the Division III Women's Lacrosse Tournament's Most Outstanding Player in leading the then Lord Jeffs to the 2003 National Championship.


O'Brien's coaching career began at Amherst in 2005 as a graduate assistant women's lacrosse coach and she also coached at Smith College until 2007.


At Amherst, O'Brien assisted in all aspects of the program and helped lead the then Lord Jeffs to a No. 6 ranking and the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2006. At Smith, O'Brien coached the women's soccer team as an assistant and helped guide it to a 14-7-1 record and an ECAC New England Championship during the 2006 season.

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Erica Erb

Erica Erb joins the Amherst Women’s Lacrosse coaching staff after spending four years in the United Kingdom.


Erb is currently an assistant coach for British Lacrosse Women’s Sixes which saw Team GB compete in the World Games in Birmingham, AL in July of 2022. The team is currently preparing for a Sixes Lacrosse Invitational Tournament in Hong Kong that will take place at the end of December 2023.


Erb also served as the head coach for the Wales Women’s Lacrosse National Team. Erb led Wales in the 2022 World Championship in Towson, MD where the team claimed the #9 world ranking after completion of the tournament.


In the summer of 2023, Erb coached in The Fly tournament hosted by England Lacrosse as the head coach for the men’s Rise Sixes team.


Prior, Erb served as the head coach for the Women’s 1s at the University of Exeter. During her first season in 2019-2020, the team was undefeated heading into the BUCS National Championship before the game was canceled due to COVID-19.


Previously, Erb spent two years at St. Helen and St. Katharine Day School in Abingdon, England. There, she coached the Senior lacrosse teams while working as a full-time member of the PE teaching department.


Erb spent her playing career at Old Dominion University. ODU made appearances in the CAA Championship Tournament during her sophomore and senior seasons. 2009 saw the Monarchs ranking as high as #18 in NCAA Division I.


While in the United Kingdom Erb earned a double-masters in international business and psychology.

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Serena Pisacano

Serena Pisacano joined the Amherst College women's lacrosse staff in September of 2024.


Most recently, Piscano was a graduate assistant lacrosse coach at Smith College from 2022-2024. She earned her master’s degree in exercise and sport studies from Smith in 2024.


In her time coaching the Pioneers, they made two 2 NEWMAC tournament appearances and fashioned the best conference finish in program history while having two athletes selected to the All-NEWMAC team;


While at Smith, Piscacno was a member of Smith Athletics DEI council. In addition, she was selected to participate in NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar (ELS) in Indianapolis and performed game management duties for the Pioneers' field hockey and soccer programs She also acted as a teaching fellow for the Smith exercise and sports studies department classes.


At Earlham, Piscano was an All-Conference attack for the Quakers in her senior season, She led Earlham with 21 goals and a program high 14 assists. She was also named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Squad that season. She graduated as the all-time leader in assists for the women's lacrosse program.


Pisacano graduated from Earlham in 2022, where she was a double major in geology and music.

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