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SUNY Cortland

SUNY Cortland Athletics
 Park Center - P.O. Box 2000 Cortland, NY 13045
Division 3 New York Northeast
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Kelsey Van Alstyne

Kelsey Van Alstyne enters her third season as Cortland's women's lacrosse head coach in 2024.


In her inaugural season with the Red Dragons in 2022, Van Alstyne and her assistants were named the SUNYAC Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the program to a 17-5 record and both the SUNYAC regular-season and tournament titles. Cortland won two NCAA Division III playoff games and tied for ninth place nationally. The Red Dragons featured a first team All-American along with four all-region and eight All-SUNYAC selections.


In 2023, Van Alystyne's squad posted a 14-5 record. The Red Dragons won the SUNYAC regular-season title, finished second in the SUNYAC tournament and earned an NCAA tournament at-large berth and a bye into the second round. The team featured four all-region and six All-SUNYAC selections, including the league's Rookie of the Year.


Van Alstyne previously served as head coach at Division II Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania for four seasons from 2018-21. The winningest coach in program history, she guided The Rock to a combined 27-24 record, including a program-best 13-5 mark and a berth into the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) tournament in 2018 for the school’s second playoff showing in nearly 30 years.


Van Alstyne coached nine All-PSAC players, including the 2018 conference Player of the Year, along with six all-region and one All-America honoree. Her 2021 squad boasted a cumulative 3.53 grade point average. Under her guidance, Slippery Rock finished 2018 leading the nation in ground balls per game (29.06) while also ranking third in caused turnovers per game (14.78), third in save percentage (.535), 11th in goals allowed per game (8.78) and 22nd in win percentage (.722).


Prior to her tenure at Slippery Rock, Van Alstyne was the head coach at Morrisville State three years from 2015-17. She led the Mustangs to North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) titles and NCAA playoff appearances in 2015 and 2017, while never posted a losing record. She was selected as the 2017 NEAC Co-Coach of the Year and she coached 20 All-NEAC selections, including the 2015 Player and Rookie of the Year and the 2016 and 2017 Defensive Player of the Year.


A native of Burnt Hills, N.Y., Van Alstyne also served as interim head coach at Buffalo State in 2014 after being an assistant coach the previous year. She led the Bengals to an 8-7 record, including a win over 16th-ranked Brockport as part of a schedule that featured six national top-20 teams. Van Alstyne also served as an assistant coach for one season at Ithaca College and one year as a strength and conditioning intern at Cornell University. During her season at Ithaca, the Bombers finished 7-0 in league play and the coaching staff was named the Empire 8 Women’s Lacrosse Staff of the Year.


Van Alstyne, whose maiden name is Kelsey Schwan, graduated from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania in 2011 with a degree in exercise science and earned a master’s degree in sport management from Cortland in 2014. Her collegiate athletic career began at West Chester University, where she played volleyball for one season and earned PSAC Scholar-Athlete honors. She transferred to Bloomsburg following her freshman year and played three years of lacrosse for the Huskies, serving two seasons as captain and earning Scholar-Athlete honors in each of those years.


In addition to her collegiate coaching experience, Van Alstyne also has coached USA teams in International competition in Australia, Germany and the U.K. and has worked at various camps, including the Nike Cup.


Van Alstyne and her husband, Chris, have a daughter, Adelynn. Chris, who is currently an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Cornell University, is a 2013 Cortland graduate and was a member of the Red Dragon football team during the 2011 and 2012 seasons. In addition, Van Alstyne's uncle, Pete Schwan, was a wide receiver for the Red Dragons from 1978-81 and her brother, Ian, was a tight end on the team in 2010.

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Blair Rosenberg

Blair Rosenberg joined the Cortland women's lacrosse staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2021. Prior to Cortland, Rosenberg served as a graduate assistant coach at John Carroll University from 2017-21 and coached with the Major Force Lacrosse club team in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018-21.


While at John Carroll, Rosenberg helped guide the team to three Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) playoff appearances, including a conference title in 2021. The Blue Streak finished with a 17-2 record in 2021 and reached the third round of the NCAA Div. III tournament. Off the field, the team earned Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Academic (IWLCA) Merit Squad honors and OAC Academic Squad honors in 2018 and 2019.


Individually, Rosenberg coached 23 all-conference selections, six Great Lakes All-Region players, the 2018 OAC Defensive Player of the Year, the 2019 OAC Rookie of the Year, the 2021 OAC Offensive Player of the Year and a 2021 third team IWLCA All-American, as well as a 2018 IWLCA Div. III Senior All-Star Game selection.


Rosenberg earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Saint Francis University in 2017 and a Master's of Education in School Counseling from John Carroll. While at Saint Francis, Rosenberg was a four-year member of the Div. I women's lacrosse team as an attacker and also served as a student-athlete mentor.


A native of Manorville, N.Y., Rosenberg graduated from Eastport-South Manor in 2013, winning a Suffolk County championship as a member of the girls lacrosse team.

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