Sarah Kellner begins her sixth season as Regis University women's lacrosse head coach in 2011-12 and will look to duplicate the success from the 2010-11 season.

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 just five short seasons, Kellner has more wins than any previous coach in program history.  She is 26-32 (.448 winning percentage) overall and this all while playing one of the toughest schedules of any Division II team.

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 begins her second season as assistant women's lacrosse coach at Regis in 2011-12 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.

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.

Jen Gunlikson returns to her alma mater as an assistant coach after a stellar two-year career and will begin her second season in 2011-12.  Gunlikson played at Regis from 2007-08 where she led the team in goals scored both seasons with 38 in 2007 and 28 in 2008.  Her 38 goals rank as third best in program history and her 66 career goals are a school record.  She is tied for best in program history with 77 career points.

Gunlikson is currently a physical therapist at the University of Colorado hospital after graduating from Regis with her doctorate degree in physical therapy in 2008.  Gunlikson graduated from Colorado State in 2006.

The 2011-12 season will be the sixth 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.

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.

Jordan Elway is in her third season as an assistant coach for the Regis women's lacrosse team in 2011-12.  Elway played most recently at Denver University for one season and graduate with a degree in spanish in 2009.  She scored five goals in her one season at DU before a knee injury cut her career short.

Elway, the daughter of NFL Hall of Famer and former Denver Bronco John Elway, began her collegeiate lacrosse career at Division I Virginia University.  She lettered once in 2006 where she scored two goals helping the Cavaliers to a 15-4 record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

Elway graduated from Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colo. where she helped lead the Bruins to back-to-back state championships in 2003 and 2004.  Elway's Cherry Creek teams were in the state finals also in 2002 and again in 2005 falling to Kent Denver in each of the championship games.

She coached the varsity II girls’s Lacrosse team in 2008 and 2009 at her alma mater Cherry Creek High School.  She was also a varsity I assistant coach, helping lead Cherry Creek to win the 2008 Colorado State Championship and a 2009 state runner-up finish.

Elway is in her second year in the prestigous Regis University nursing school.