Women's Lacrosse

Kristin Ventresca will enter her second season as the head coach of the Mitchell College women's lacrosse program in the spring of 2025. 

Ventresca, who made her collegiate head coaching debut for the Mariners, arrived in New London after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut. During her tenure with the Warriors, she coordinated and implemented offensive strategy and skills, organized and managed team fundraising activities, and identified and cultivated high level potential recruits through clinics, tournaments, the transfer portal, and correspondences. Ventresca’s roles also included developing and presenting in-depth scouting reports for all opponents, as well as maintaining academic progress reports for student-athletes.

Additionally, Ventresca has extensive experience at the high school level, having served as the head girl’s lacrosse coach at Montville High School in Montville, Connecticut, from 2012-2020. Under her guidance, the program made their first appearance in the CIAC Class S tournament in 2015, and went on to make it back to the state tournament in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. The team also took home a pair of Eastern Connecticut Conference division titles in 2016 and 2018.

A resident of Montville, Connecticut, Ventresca and her husband Jon have four children; Shay, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, Sean, a junior at Eastern Connecticut State University, Jack, a freshman at American University, and Liam, a high school senior at the Pomfret School.