Sarah Kellner begins her seventh season as Regis University women's lacrosse head coach in 2012-13 and will look to continue on the Rangers finest two seasons in program history.

Following a record breaking season in 2011, she guided the Rangers in 2012 to a 9-8 record including a season finale win over #2 ranked Rollins College.  The Rangers finished as runner-up in the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (WILA) in 2012 while defeating two ranked teams, the first in school history.

The Rangers took the inaugural Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association championship with a perfect 6-0 record.  The Rangers lost just two games during the spring of 2011, one to a top 10 team while racking up 12 wins, the most in school history.

In 2009, Kellner led the Rangers to a 6-6 record which was the most wins by any Ranger women's lacrosse team since its inception in 2000.  It also marked the first time a Rangers team had a non-losing record.

In six seasons Kellner has more wins than any previous coach in program history.  She is 35-40 (.467 winning percentage) overall and this all while playing one of the toughest schedules of any Division II team.  Her teams are 12-2 (.857) in two seasons in the WILA

Kellner brings a wealth of playing and coaching experience to the Ranger lacrosse program. Since 2002, Averson has worked with numerous lacrosse programs in the east coast area. She most recently coached at Fayetteville-Manlius where she served as an assistant coach from 2004-06. In all three seasons her team made it to the New York State High School Championship game, winning the title in two of the three seasons.

During her three year span at Fayetteville-Manlius she coached six high school All-America players and two Central New York Player of the Year award winners. 15 players that she coached have moved on to compete at the NCAA Division I level.

She also boasts similar success as a collegiate athlete. Averson was a four-year letterwinner at Cornell University (N.Y.). In 2003, as a senior, she was named Cornell University Female Athlete of the Year as well as being selected to the All-America first team. During her playing career at Cornell she twice guided her team to the NCAA Division I championship, including a Final Four appearance in 2002 when her team went 17-2.

Kellner is a 2003 graduate of Cornell with a bachelor degree in development sociology.   Formerly Sarah Averson, she lives with her husband and two children in Littleton.

Kate Hood enters her third season as assistant women's lacrosse coach at Regis in 2012-13 following a two year-stint as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Simmons College, a Division III school in Boston, Mass.  Hood helped Regis to their finest season in program history with a 12-2 overall record including a Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (WILA) championship in her first season.

Hood, previously Leonard, is a 2003 graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where she majored in psychology. She was a second team all-conference and an IWLCA all-region lacrosse performer her senior season, leading the team to an NCAA Division III tournament berth.  Her team was the 2000 NCAA Championship runner-up and 2001 ECAC Champion team. Hood scored 31 goals and added nine assists, tying for the team lead in goals her senior campaign.  She was a member of the Williams College field hockey team which qualified for the NCAA tournament every year she played. Hood was also a two-time captain of the Division I alpine ski team. She qualified for the NCAA Championships in skiing and was an NCAA Division I Academic All-American.

The 2012-13 season will be the seventh for Beth Calder as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at Regis University. Calder, who has a wide range of lacrosse and college athletic experience, played lacrosse with head coach Sarah Kellner at Cornell University.  Calder helped recruit all of the outstanding student-athletes that helped Regis to the WILA Championship and a record setting 12-2 record in 2011.

Calder came to Regis after spending one season at Drexel University where she served as an assistant coach. While there she was responsible for all aspects of recruitment while also managing the travel, equipment and recruiting budget.

Before joining the Drexel coaching staff she work for a year at Parisi IAP, where she worked as a quality control trainer and sports nutritionist. While there she supervised five athletic performance specialists in the facility, ensuring high quality training through weekly trainer education workshops and exciting class schedules. She also conducted daily strength and speed training sessions for athletes from the youth to the professional level.

While finishing her undergraduate degree from Cornell, Calder also worked as an assistant lacrosse coach and a student assistant strength and conditioning coach.

In 2006 Calder co-founded The Real Lacrosse (TRL) Camps. The camps, which she is also a co-president, were founded to spread the game of lacrosse to areas of the country where it is not widely played. She handles all business areas of the camps which include marketing, sponsorship and budgeting.

Calder is a 2003 graduate of Cornell University, where she earned her bachelor of science degree in nutrition.  She is also a 2010 graduate of the Regis University physical therapy program.

Cristina Johnson is in her second season on the women's lacrosse staff following a stellar four-year career as a Ranger.  The Hampstead, Md. native left an indelible mark on the Ranger program including leading the Rangers to their best season ever at 12-2 in 2011.  That same season they were a perfect 6-0 in Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association games and the WILA Championship.

She left as the eighth leading goal scorer with 58 and her 73 total points are also eighth most in Regis history.  She totaled 117 career ground balls which is sixth most in Ranger annals while grabbing 74 draw controls, third most at Regis.