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Abby Wiley
Abby Wiley begins her fifth year as the women's lacrosse head coach at Wingate University in 2023. She is 38-21 through her first four seasons, going 21-6 in SAC play. Wiley is 104-76 in her coaching career, winning her 100th career game in the 2022 season. Wiley was named the SAC Coach of the Year in 2021 and 2022. She joined Wingate after spending eight seasons at Colorado Mesa. Wiley was announced as the head women's lacrosse coach at Wingate University in June of 2018.
In 2022, Wiley led the Bulldogs to a record-shattering season, going 15-4 overall and 9-1 in league play. Wingate advanced to the SAC title game and earned its first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs set a record with 15 victories, while also cracking the IWLCA top 25 for the first time in program history. The 'Dogs also had their first-ever All-Americans, with Leah Knowles earning second team honors from the IWLCA and third team accolades from USA Lacrosse Magazine. Becca Ruiz also picked up honorable mention accolades in 2022. Knowles was named the SAC Offensive Player of the Year.
Wiley guided the Bulldogs to a historic season in 2021, going 11-3 overall and 7-2 in the SAC. The Bulldogs set program records for goals, assists, points and goals-against average. Wingate had multiple players earn IWLCA National Player of the Week honors in 2021. The Bulldogs had their first three IWLCA All-Region honorees in Leah Knowles, Megan Biase and Annie Plotts. Biase was named the SAC Defensive Player of the Year, with Plotts picking up Freshman of the Year honors to go along with Wiley being named the SAC Coach of the Year.
The 2020 season saw Wingate start the year 3-5. The Bulldogs were getting hot in early march, rolling to big wins over Lincoln Memorial and Lewis by a combined 15 goals. The Lewis victory came on March 10, which would end up being the final game of the season. Spring sports were cancelled the following day due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 season did see Kendall Wells become the school's all-time leader in career goals and points. She also took over as the all-time leading goal scorer in SAC history in 2020.
In her first season at Wingate in the spring of 2019, Wiley guided the Bulldogs to a 9-9 record, with a 5-3 mark in league play. The Bulldogs finished third in the SAC standings and advanced to the semifinals of the SAC Tournament. Six Bulldogs earned conference honors in Wiley's first season at Wingate, led by SAC Freshman of the Year Becca Ruiz. Wells, Sierra Street and Arion Pierre were first team All-SAC selections, with Ruiz, Emily Ketron and Megan Amrein picking up second team accolades. Pierre was also selected to paly in the IWLCA Senior All-Star game. Wingate was named an IWLCA Honor Squad, with Wells, Casey Roux and Taylor Barker earning Academic Honor Roll accolades.
Prior to her arrival at Wingate, Wiley spent the previous eight seasons as the head coach at Colorado Mesa, where she was the first head coach in program history when the sport was added in 2011. Wiley guided the Mavericks to a winning record in her fourth season despite playing in the highly-competitive Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, featuring perennial women's lacrosse powers Lindenwood and Regis. Under Wiley's guidance, the Mavericks have earned the Paul W. Brechler Award each of the last four years. This award is given to the team with the top GPA in the RMAC.
In the sixth year of the program's history, Wiley led the Mavericks to an 11-4 overall record, with a 5-2 mark in the RMAC. She was named the conference Coach of the Year in 2016. Wiley followed by leading Colorado Mesa to a 13-4 record in 2017, going 7-2 in league play, with the Mavericks falling to No. 12 Regis 14-12 in the semifinals of the RMAC Tournament.
In her final season at Colorado Mesa in 2018, Wiley led the Mavericks to a 12-4 overall record, going 7-2 in league play while outscoring opponents 243-163 on the season. CMU earned its first-ever national ranking, checking in at No. 22 in the preseason IWLCA poll. The season ended with a 12-11 overtime loss against Regis, who ended the season ranked seventh nationally, just below fellow RMAC power Lindenwood, ranked fourth in the final poll.
Wiley posted a 66-55 record in her eight seasons at Colorado Mesa, going 36-12 over her last three seasons. Prior to arriving at CMU, Wiley was a volunteer coach with Long Island Select Lacrosse with over four years of experience coaching at Kings Park Youth Lacrosse Camp, For the Love of the Game Camp and State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY) Women's Lacrosse Sport School.
A native of Kings Park, New York, Wiley played collegiate lacrosse at SUNY Cortland for two years. Prior to attending SUNY Cortland she played two years at Nassau Community College where she was a preseason All-American and team captain.
Wiley earned her Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Nassau Community College in 2007. She graduated in December 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a concentration in Adapted Physical Education. In 2014, Wiley received her Masters of Arts in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University Irvine. Abby and her husband Bryan have two sons, Peter and John and a daughter Emma.
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