Pam Stuper, a native of Lancaster, PA will enter her seventh season as head coach of the Yale University Field Hockey Program. In her eight sasons as a Yale Assistant, she helped lead the Bulldogs to three ECAC Championships in 1998, 2002, and 2003. Prior to Yale, she was an assistant coach at James Madison University from 1993-1995 seeing the Dukes win the NCAA Championship in 1994.

As a collegiate player, Stuper won three national championships in her four years at Old Dominion University, which included an undefeated 26-0 season in 1991. She was named an All-American in 1990 and 1991. In 1998, Stuper was inducted into the ODU Hall of Fame.

As a nine-year member of the U.S. National Team, Stuper participated in three World Cups ('90, '94, and '98), one Pan-American Games ('95), and two Champion's Trophy Tournaments ('95, '97). She was an alternate for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. In the summer of 2004, Stuper was inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame.

Stuper is involved in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) and USA Field Hockey. She serves as second vice-president of the NFHCA. She played in the USFHA Summer League with the Philadelphia Fury and Tidewater Tempest. In 2005 and 2006, Stuper served as one of the coaches at the New England Elite Performance Training Center (EPTC), a selector for the Regional Futures Program, and a coach for the College Open Camp.

A native of Lachine, Quebec, Tamara Durante, enters her fifth season with the Bulldogs after four years as an assistant coach at Ohio University. She works primarily with the Yale goaltenders and forwards. She helped the Pandas to a silver medal in the CIAU Field Hockey Championships in 1997 and bronze medal finishes in 1996 an 1999.
Durante worked for Field Hockey Canada from 1999-2001. Her duties included assisting the goalkeeper coach and recording and editing matches. She was the volunteer head coach for the Provincial Quebec Under-21 and Under-18 Field Hockey teams from 1993-98.

Durante is involved extensively with the USA Field Hockey. She has coached in the Futures Program since 2002 and served as the Great Lakes Regional Futures Director from 2003-2005. She has selected for various USA Field Hockey programs, including U-16, U19 & U21 National Teams and Futures Elite. She has coached at FDIC, High School and College Open Camps as well as the Junior Olympics.

Abby Ostruzka, a Greenwich, CT native, a University of Connecticut grad, and stand-out student-athlete, will enter her sixth season as an assistant with the Bulldogs. She works primarily with the Yale defense. Ostruzka was a member of the New England Region Elite Performance Training Center Team in 2005, 2006 & 2007.

A four-time Big East Conference Regular Season Champion and a three-time Big East Conference Tournament Champion at UConn, she was a four-year starter for the Huskies. Ostruzka was a two-time STX/NFHCA MidEast Regional All-American in 2003 and 2004, as well as a 2004 NFHCA First Team All-American.

The 2011 season will mark Patti Klecha-Porter's 27th season as the Wesleyan head field hockey coach. In 1999, she was honored as NESCAC field hockey Coach of the Year. Leading the field hockey Cardinals to back-to-back ECAC New England Division III titles in 1999 and 2000, Patti guided the team to its most victories in team history with 13 both those seasons. Patti has taken her squads on five international trips, twice to Bermuda, once to Barbados, once to Holland, and most recently to Argentina in the summer of 2008. Patti's first victory of the 2002 season, a 3-1 win over Mount Holyoke to inaugurate a 10-6 campaign, was the 100th of her Wesleyan career.

In 2005, Patti was honored by the Connecticut Field Hockey Coaches Association with its Chickie Poisson Award for distinguished service to the sport and in Sept., 2007, Patti was inducted into the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame.

Faced with starting a program from scratch over a decade ago, Quinnipiac field hockey coach Becca Kohli has built the Bobcats into an annual Northeast Conference power and a formidable regional opponent. Now entering her 17th season in 2011, Kohli's program continues to ascend to new heights. Four seasons ago a new era of Quinnipiac field hockey began with the opening of the new Artificial Turf Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. A four-time Coach of the Year and three-time Northeast Conference Coach of the Year, Kohli has also brought Quinnipiac to two NCAA tournament appearances (2001, 2003). She also has established the program as one of the elite in the Northeast Conference. In 12 seasons in the league, Quinnipiac has registered a 71-33 mark against NEC opponents in regular-season play and has owned at least a share of seven conference titles.

After graduation, Kohli competed on the U.S. National Elite Team, traveling to San Diego, Holland, Argentina, and Ireland, where she was a reserve member of the squad that earned a bronze medal at the 1994 World Cup.

A member of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association and U.S. Field Hockey Association, Kohli is active in the Futures Program and the High Performance Training Centers as a Coach for the New England Fury.