Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Massachusetts Maritime Buccaneers
101 Academy Dr Buzzards Bay, MA 02532

Division 3 Massachusetts Northeast

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Mikayla Correia

Following the 2023 spring season, Correia was elevated to the role of head coach after seven-year head coach Marc Palombo stepped back in to an assistant coaching role. Coach Correia served as an assistant to Palombo from 2019-2023.

Mikayla has been in her current role within the Department since September of 2019. Her duties as Assistant Director of Athletics and Senior Women Administrator include but are not limited to coordination of recruitment efforts for women's athletics programs, special event planning, and fundraising. Prior to her current positon she served as a Women's Recruiting Graduate Assistant from the Fall of 2018 to the Fall of 2019. Along with her position on the women's lacrosse coaching staff she is a coach with the Boston Aces Lacrosse Club.

Correia graduated from the Academy in 2018 with her Bachelor's degree and earned her Master's Degree in Facilities Management in 2020. She played four years of lacrosse for the Buccaneers and still holds most of the program's goalkeeping records.

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Marc Palombo

Marc Palombo took the helm of the Buccaneer women's lacrosse program in 2017. Overall he has served in a coaching capacity with the team since 2013, the team's second year of existence. A resident of Sandwich, Mass, Palombo is the third head coach and winningest coach in program history. Following the 2023 season, Palombo stepped down as head coach of the program and stays on as an assistant coach.

“Marc has symbolized excellence in lacrosse both as a student-athlete and as a coach, and we are very pleased that he will be leading our women’s program in the years to come. He is greatly respected in both the lacrosse and Academy communities, and we look forward to watching him take this team to a higher level of success."

Palombo is no stranger to the Massachusetts Maritime lacrosse community, as he ranks as one of the top players in the history of the Academy’s men’s program en route to induction into the Buccaneer Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001. A three-sport athlete at Massachusetts Maritime, the Nahant, Mass native graduated in 1978 after leading the Colonial League in scoring on three occasions and earning all-conference accolades in each of his four seasons of play. Selected to play in the East-West Senior All-Star Game as a senior, Marc graduated as the school record-holder for goals in a season (33) and career (150) while also serving as team captain in both 1977 and 1978. His lacrosse jersey #28 was officially retired by the Academy in 1988.

Palombo excelled on the gridiron as well for fellow Hall of Famer Don Ruggeri, as he served as a captain on the Buccaneers’ first New England Football Conference championship squad as a senior and collected all-league honors along the way. Marc was also a two-year ice hockey captain and copped a pair of all-conference accolades during the winters of 1976-77 and 1977-78, and he was tabbed as Massachusetts Maritime’s Athlete of the Year following his senior year.

Coach Palombo has coached two first-team All-MASCAC players (Alyssa DiScipio (2022) & Cassie Llewellyn (2023)), IWLCA All-Star Game participant (Alyssa DiScipio (2022)), two second-team All-MASCAC players (Kianna Carpenter (2017)) & Stephanie Hunt (2018)) and one MASCAC Rookie of the Year (Casey Sullivan (2018)).