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Ohio State University Athletics
 J. Owens Memorial Stad, 2450 Fred Taylor Dr Columbus, OH 43210
Division 1 Ohio Midwest
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Amanda Moore

Amanda (Barnes) Moore was named head coach for the Ohio State women’s lacrosse team in June 2023. She came to Ohio State after seven years in the same role at East Carolina and is the fourth head coach in program history, with the first year of varsity lacrosse at Ohio State in 1996.


Moore started her collegiate coaching career at Ohio State as an assistant coach for two seasons before a year at Boston University. She spent five years on the staff at Duke and was then named head coach for the ECU Pirates in June 2016. Moore was tasked with establishing the team, spending a year developing the program before the inaugural season in 2017-18. A part of nine NCAA appearances as a player and coach, she was a four-year letterwinner at North Carolina, with the squad reaching the NCAA quarterfinals each of her four seasons. She is a member of the NCAA Rules Committee and the IWLCA All-American Committee for the southern region.


At East Carolina, Moore guided the Pirates to a .500 record or better in each of the last three campaigns, with an overall record of 35-59 since the program's inception. The squad had 15 all-conference honorees during her time at the helm and was outstanding in the classroom posting a combined grade-point average of 3.45 or better since the first year. In 2022 they won the Pirate Service Team Award, with the players each averaging more than 11 hours of service. The women’s lacrosse team also had the largest single-day Pirate Club fund donations among all ECU sports and had the third-highest participation number across the athletics department.


The native of Bel Air, Md., served as the defensive coordinator and goalie coach at Duke from September 2011 through June 2016. The squad made five NCAA appearances, including a trip to the semifinals in 2015 and three quarterfinal berths. Seven Blue Devils earned All-America honors, with 20 all-conference accolades, including four among the team’s goalies.


Moore spent the 2010-11 school year at Boston University, where the Terriers had the co-America East Player of the Year, three all-conference selections and two named to the league all-rookie team. She was the assistant defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator.


At Ohio State for the 2009 and 2010 campaigns, Moore was primarily responsible for the goalies and defense. She guided Annie Carruthers to the 2010 American Lacrosse Conference Goalie of the Year award and Kristen Gilwee to then-program records for career saves and wins. Buckeyes earned an All-America honor, the league rookie of the year accolade and six all-conference honors during her two years in Columbus.


Moore earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise sport science – sport administration, with a minor in English, from North Carolina in 2008. She was an ACC Academic Honor Roll selection throughout her career.


She and her husband, Jonathan, have two children, Cade and Evangeline, and the family has a dog, Gunner.

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Tianna Wallpher

Tianna Wallpher joined the Ohio State women’s lacrosse program as an assistant coach in July 2023. Wallpher, who will serve as the defensive coach for the Scarlet and Gray, came to Ohio State after two years with new head coach Amanda Moore at East Carolina.


Wallpher was a standout defender at Towson before beginning her coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at her alma mater for a season. She then spent two campaigns as a volunteer assistant coach at Big Ten member Johns Hopkins before joining Moore’s staff at East Carolina.


The ECU Pirates ranked 21st nationally in scoring defense in 2023 and were 11th nationally in save percentage. The 2022 team set the program mark for save percentage and had the second-best goals-against average in school history.


Wallpher, who grew up in Ellicott City, Md., has played professionally in Athletes Unlimited and the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League. She was named a WPLL All-Star and part of the league championship squad in 2019.


During her three-year career at Towson, Wallpher earned IWLCA Third Team All-America honors in 2018, was a three-time First Team All-CAA selection (2016-18), earned conference all-tournament team honors in 2016 and was tabbed an IWLCA First Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region honoree twice. The Tigers made two NCAA appearance during her career. She was an America East All-Rookie Team selection while playing at UMBC in 2015.


Wallpher received her bachelor's degree in business administration from Towson in 2018. She was nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year, CAA Female Scholar Athlete of the Year and CAA Female Leadership and Excellence accolades. In 2018, Wallpher was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma of the National Student-Athlete Honors Society.

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Ally Kennedy

Ally Kennedy has been named an assistant coach for the Ohio State women’s lacrosse program, new Buckeye head coach Amanda Moore announced. Kennedy, who brings a wealth of playing experience at all levels to the Scarlet and Gray, will coach the Buckeye offense.


After an outstanding collegiate playing career at Stony Brook, Kennedy spent time coaching at her alma mater and at Virginia. She won gold with Team USA squad at the world championships last summer and is part of Athletes Unlimited.


Kennedy, a 2021 Tewaaraton Award nominee and Honda Award finalist in 2021, was a four-time All-American and the 2021 IWLCA Midfield of the Year with the Stony Brook Seawolves. The squad reached the NCAA quarterfinals each of her five seasons. She ended her career third all-time in goals (266), fourth in points (329), ninth in assists (63), second in both ground balls (180) and caused turnovers (343) and 10th in single-season caused turnovers (59).


Following her collegiate career, Kennedy was the second overall pick in the inaugural Athletes Unlimited college draft. She finished her first professional season 16th overall in points scored (1,302) and was tied for eighth in goals with 22. In the 2022 campaign she had 740 leaderboard points and was fifth in the league with nine assists, ranking second with 43 draw controls.


She represented Team USA at the 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship, with the team winning the gold medal. Kennedy played in all eight games and had 11 goals and assist, with a hat trick in each of the first five games.


A native of North Babylon, N.Y., Kennedy received her bachelor's degree in business management from Stony Brook in 2021.

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Caroline Kimel

Caroline Kimel joined the Ohio State women's lacrosse program as an assistant coach in June 2024 after wrapping up an outstanding collegiate career at East Carolina, where she set program records for career goals, assists and points.


Kimel, a native of Durham, N.C., played and started 75 games for the Pirates from 2020-24 (missing just one game in the five-year stretch) and scored 130 goals, adding 105 assists for 235 points. She was a four-time All-American Athletic Conference honoree, one of the first three players in AAC history to earn all-league honors four times, including first-team accolades in both 2023 and ‘24. She also was named to the IWLCA All-Region team twice. Kimel played under current Ohio State head coach Amanda Moore for four seasons.


A four-year letterwinner at Cardinal Gibbons High School, Kimel was part of four state championship teams. She had 281 points in her scholastic career (113 goals, 168 assists) and was named state championship and team MVP as a senior.


Kimel earned her bachelor’s degree in communications with a concentration in public relations in Spring 2023 before beginning work on a master’s degree in strategic communication.

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