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Kathy Railey
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Record at Stevenson: 15-23, 2
years
Career Record: 73-142, 12 years
With 19 years of women's lacrosse and field hockey coaching experience, Railey begins her third season as the head field hockey coach at Stevenson in 2009 and her 13th overall having totaled 73 wins at Stevenson, Eastern Connecticut State, Goucher and McDaniel.
Railey also serves as an associate athletics director and senior woman's administrator at Stevenson while entering her fifth year as the school's head women's lacrosse coach and her 11th overall in 2010.
A year ago, Railey led the Mustangs to a school record 10 wins and an appearance in the semifinals of the CAC Field Hockey Championship as they went 10-10. The team boasted three All-CAC selections, the program's first two NFHCA All-South Region honorees and had 10 players selected to the NFHCA Academic Squad.
During Railey's first season in 2007, Stevenson managed a 5-13 record during the team's first year in the CAC where the team finished in a three-way tie for fourth with Mary Washington and York (Pa.).
Railey came to Stevenson from Eastern Connecticut State where she is the winningest coach in school history, totaling 39 wins from 2000-05, including a school record 11 wins in 2001.
Prior to Eastern Connecticut, Railey was the head field hockey coach at Goucher College for two seasons in 1998 and 1999 after spending three years at Mount Carmel High School as the director of physical education.
During that time, Railey was the head field hockey coach and assistant girls' lacrosse coach at Loch Raven as well where she was a part of two state semifinalists in lacrosse and one in field hockey.
In 10 seasons as a collegiate lacrosse coach, Railey has totaled a career record of 88-63 and is currently the 24th active winningest coach in Division III with a .583 winning percentage. She is 34-31 in four years with the Mustangs which includes a school record 12 wins in 2008.
A year ago, Stevenson finished with back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time since 1998 and received votes in the IWLCA/Under Armour Division III Weekly Poll for the first time in school history on March 4.
In 2008, Stevenson received the program's first-ever regional ranking when the team was ranked fifth in the final NCAA South Region poll.
A native of Baltimore and a 1987 graduate of Loch Raven High School, Railey returned to her hometown following six very successful seasons at Eastern Connecticut State from 2000-05 where she led the Warriors to 64 wins, a Little East Conference championship in 2005 and an ECAC Division III New England Region Championship in 2002.
Railey was named Little East Conference Coach of the Year in 2005 while leading Eastern to the second round of the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship before losing to eventual national champion Salisbury. The winningest coach in the history of the women's lacrosse team, she also guided the Warriors to the title game of the ECAC New England Region Championship in 2003 and 2004 as well as the Little East Conference tournament in 2002 and 2003.
Railey led ECSU to a spot in the New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance playoffs in her first season in 2000 before leading the Warriors to a share of the South division regular season title and its first playoff win since 1998.
From 1991-93, Railey was an assistant women's lacrosse and field hockey coach for three seasons at McDaniel before serving as the head field hockey coach in 1993 and 1994.
A 1991 graduate of Gettysburg with a bachelor of arts degree in economics, Railey was a four-year letterwinner and team captain in both field hockey and lacrosse for the Bullets from 1987-91. She later received a master's degree in liberal arts with a concentration in physical education from McDaniel in 1993.
Inducted into the US Lacrosse/Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame in 2007, Railey is a member of the United States Lacrosse Association, Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association, National Field Hockey Coaches Association and United State Field Hockey Association.
A member of the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Rules Committee since 2005, Railey currently serves as the chairperson for women's lacrosse in the CAC after having served on the NCAA Division III Regional Advisory Committee for both women's lacrosse and field hockey and as a member of the IWLCA All-American Committee for women's lacrosse.
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Erika Blozie
Title: Assistant Coach Email: eblozie@stevenson.edu Phone: 443-352-4272 College: Eastern Connecticut State '05 |
Blozie brings five years of collegiate coaching experience to Stevenson where she begins her first season with the Mustangs and her second stint as an assistant under her former college head coach, Kathy Railey.
In addition to serving as an assistant women's lacrosse coach, Blozie is also an assistant under Railey in field hockey and serves as the director of Stevenson's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
From 2001-04, Blozie played four seasons as a goalie under Railey at Eastern Connecticut State where she still holds six of the seven career records for goalies including games, wins, saves and goals against average. As a member of the Warriors, she started all 71 of the team's games during her career, totaling 46 wins, 708 saves and an 8.47 goal against average.
A two-time IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-New England Region Second Team selection, Blozie was selected to the IWLCA North-South Senior All-Star Game and was named to the IWLCA Academic Squad in 2004. She was also a two-time All-Little East Conference selection, earning first team honors in 2002.
As a sophomore in 2002, Blozie led the Warriors to the ECAC Division III New England Region tournament, the first of three-straight appearances, where she earned Most Valuable Player honors after posting a school record 15 wins, 185 saves and a 7.67 goals against average, the second-best in team history.
A team captain under Railey in 2003 and 2004, Blozie also won a NEWLA South Division regular season title as a freshman in 2001 and spent three years as a member of SAAC from 2002-04.
After graduating from ECSU in 2005 with a bachelor of science degree in health and physical education, Blozie spent three seasons as an assistant with the Warriors from 2005-07 while earning her master of science degree in allied health from Connecticut in 2007. During that time, Eastern Connecticut State won two Little East Conference championships in 2005 and 2007 and advanced to the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship both years.
In 2007, Blozie served as an admissions assistant at the Bradford School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before serving as the assistant women's lacrosse coach at Bowdoin in Brunswick, Maine in 2008.
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Shannon Burke
Title: Assistant Coach College: Notre Dame '09 |
A former All-American at Notre Dame, Burke joins Stevenson for her first season as an assistant women's lacrosse coach in 2010, working with the team as a defensive specialist.
A four-year letterwinner, team captain and 2003 all-state honorable mention selection in field hockey at Roland Park Country School where she helped the Red Chili Peppers win conference championships in 2002 and 2004, Burke will also assist with the Mustangs' field hockey team.
A 2009 graduate of Notre Dame with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology, Burke became the fifth player in school history and first defender to earn IWLCA/US Lacrosse First Team All-America honors as a senior. She was also selected to the IWLCA/Under Armour North-South Senior All-Star Game.
Burke was named the team's top defender after totaling a school record 44 caused turnovers to go along with a career and team-high 60 ground balls as the Irish won a school record 16 games, captured the team's first-ever BIG EAST title and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship. Notre Dame also finished the year ranked at No. 6, its highest-ever national ranking.
A two-time All-BIG EAST and All-West/Midwest All-Region selection, Burke finished her career second on Notre Dame's all-time caused turnovers list with 106, just one shy of the school record, in 70 games, 57 of which were starts. She is also third with 139 ground balls and 124 draw controls. During her four seasons, the Irish went 54-22 and participated in three NCAA tournaments.
Burke is a native of Timonium and 2005 graduate of Roland Park
Country School where she was a three-sport standout in field
hockey, basketball and lacrosse. She earned all-metro and all-state
honors as a junior and senior in addition to being named player of
the year by
the Baltimore Messenger.
