Coaches

Mallory Zelawski

Starting her second full year as head coach, Zelawski boasts 15 years of coaching experience at various levels. She spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the University of Oklahoma club team where she helped build the team's schedule and run warm-up drills and workouts. A fixture in the Oklahoma lacrosse scene, Zelawski also spent two years as the Head Coach for Red Dirt Lacrosse and four years as an assistant coach for the Tulsa Raptors club team. Zelawski grew interest in women's lacrosse in the state, helping to develop the Heartland Girls League where she oversaw the growth of club lacrosse from one team to seven in the region.


Her experience goes beyond the coaching ranks as she has been a certified trainer, observer, and assigner of officials since 2018. She was the US Lacrosse Oklahoma State Coordinator from 2018 to 2020 and has officiated NCAA Division II contests in Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas since 2015. She has continued to work as a high school official in the Triad area in North Carolina.


Zelawski played her collegiate lacrosse at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) where she tallied 149 points for the Crimson Hawks. In her senior year in 2007, she tallied 43 goals and 17 assists. A midfielder for three years, she moved to attack in her senior season where Zelawski set the school record for most points scored in a game with 12 (seven goals, five assists). Her efforts in her four years at IUP placed her eleventh all-time in career points, tenth in career goals, and tenth in career assists at IUP. Zelawski closed out her career earning All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Second-Team honors in 2007. Academically, she was an All-American Academic Athlete and garnered the PSAC's Top-Ten Award for Academic and Athletic Excellence. After her senior year, she spent one year as an assistant coach for the Crimson Hawks.


A career geologist in the petroleum industry for ten years, Zelawski earned her Bachelor's Degree in Earth and Space Science Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she earned a 4.0 grade-point average while competing as a student-athlete. She earned her Master's Degree at Northern Arizona University where she worked on the volcanic fields on the Navajo Nation, Arizona.