Saint Francis University Athletics

A veteran head coach of 18 seasons and a four-time national coach of the year finalist, Stacey Bean enters her ninth season at the helm of the Saint Francis University Field Hockey program in 2016.

This past season, Bean led the Flash to their third-consecutive 10-win season, going 10-7 overall and 4-4 in the tough Atlantic-10 conference, narrowly missing out on the A-10 tourney. 

She guided seniors Selena Adamshick and Samantha Zeiders to All-Region accolades as the two seniors left their mark on the SFU and NCAA record books as each left with numerous top-10 places amongst career active leaders. Under Bean's guidance, Adamshick set the school record with 31 career assists and left as the second-leading scorer in history. Adamshick also earned a spot in annual Senior Game held at the final four. 

Adamshick, Irene Fritschy and Zeiders were named First-Team All-A-10 in 2015 as SFU placed six players on All-A-10 teams and an additional three on the All-Academic Team. The National Field Hockey Coaches' Association also named 14 players to the All-Academic team and six of those earned "Scholar of Distinction" status. All told, the team had a collective GPA of an impressive 3.49 in 2015. 

For the second consecutive year, Saint Francis led the NCAA in penalty corners per game, averaging over 10 per contest to win the NCAA statistical champion award. 

After the season, Coach Bean saw Shannon Pereira and Brianna Govia get selected to represent Canada and Trinidad and Tobago, respectfully at the Junior Pan-Am Games. The games serve as a qualifier for the Junior World Cup and is a showcase of the world's best under 21 players. 

In just the team’s second season in the Atlantic 10 Conference, Bean was named the A-10 Coach of the Year for the second time in her career and Saint Francis U advanced to the A-10 Tournament in the first year it was eligible to do so. The Red Flash put together a program-best 14 wins, including six in A-10 play en route to securing the No. 3 seed in the tournament. For the second time in three years, three different players earned All-Conference First Team selections as Selena Adamshick, Carissa Makea, and Autumn Pellman were named to the All-A-10 First Team. Pellman will leave SFU as the most accomplished offensive player in school history as she graduates with 65 goals and 165 points. Pellman was the NCAA Statistical Champion for Goals Per Game for the second consecutive season and SFU as a team was a Statistical Champion for Penalty Corners per game. Bean also coached freshman standout Shannon Pereira to an All-A-10 Rookie Team selection, she also got the opportunity to compete for the Canadian Women's Junior Development Squad and she was selected to Team Canada for U21 Series against the United States. Saint Francis goalkeeper Samantha Zeiders posted 14 wins in net and six shutouts. She finished fifth in the NCAA in Goals against Average as she allowed just over one tally per contest.
 
Off the field, Bean’s team continues to excel in the classroom. Under her tutelage, Saint Francis is 7-for-7 in securing the NFHCA Team Academic Award and in 2014 Carly Gromel was named an NFHCA Scholar of Distinction for having at least a 3.9 GPA. Gromel and Nikki Snyder both earned spots on the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.

Bean’s team followed up its most successful season in program history to date in 2012 with a fresh start in one of the country’s premier field hockey leagues, the Atlantic 10 Conference. SFU won eight games in 2013, including three in conference play. The Red Flash also nearly upset No. 12 Massachusetts as it took them to overtime at DeGol Field.
 
Under her guidance, Carissa Makea was named to the All-A10 First Team and the junior picked up her third consecutive Longstreth/NFHCA All-Region Team selection. Autumn Pellman was named the program's first NCAA Statistical Champion for goals per game and she earned All-A10 Second Team honors in 2013. Saint Francis also had one of its freshmen recognized by their new conference, Carly Gromel garnered A10 All-Rookie Team honors.

Over her six seasons in Loretto, Bean's influence on Red Flash field hockey is undeniable. Under her watch, 10 student-athletes have been named to All-NEC teams, two Capital One Academic All-District selections have been named and a total of 56 SFU players were named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll. In SFU’s inaugural season in the A10, it had two players named to the All-Academic Team, Jocelyn Scillia and Abby Webb were named to the 11-player conference squad.

In the program's 10th varsity season, Bean's squad earned a Northeast Conference regular season Co-Championship and finished with a program record 12 overall wins and six victories in the NEC. Stacey Bean was recognized by the conference by earning NEC Coach of the Year honors. Bean also saw four of her players earn postseason accolades. Carissa Makea was named the NEC Defensive Player of the Year and also earned a spot on the All-NEC first team. Freshman Selena Adamshick was named the NEC Rookie of the Year and claimed a spot on the All-NEC first team. Adamshick was also named to a National Rookie team for her impressive freshman campaign. Autumn Pellman was also recognized with All-NEC first team honors for the Red Flash. Senior goalkeeper, Kate Vitali, earned All-NEC second team laurels.

The Red Flash set school records for goals and points in 2011 as then-freshman Autumn Pellman set single season school records for points (25) and goals (12). Bean also tutored then-freshman Carissa Makea to first-team all-conference and second-team all-district honors despite not playing her natural position.  
 
In 2010 under Bean’s direction, SFU gained it’s first set of back-to-back wins since the 2007 campaign. One of those victories, produced the program's first-ever win over conference foe Sacred Heart en route to setting the single season school record for wins.

Prior to her arrival in Loretto, Bean served as the head coach at the University of Rhode Island from 2002 through 2006, guiding many of her former student-athletes to accolades in the classroom and on the turf. She oversaw the development of the first student-athlete in URI athletics history to receive the prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship. She also had 22 NFHCA Academic Honor Roll selections, three NFHCA Regional All-Americans, 12 Atlantic-10 All-Stars, two A-10 All-Rookie Team honorees, an A-10 Defensive Player-of-the-Year and an A-10 Rookie-of-the-Year, in addition to numerous other academic and athletic honorees.

Bean was named the 2006 A-10 Coach-of-the-Year when she guided URI to an 8-10 overall record, and a second place conference finish with a 4-3 mark. She also served as the 2002 NFHCA Senior All-Star Game head coach.

Prior to her time at Rhode Island, Bean was an assistant coach at Boston College, where she helped oversee the development of five NFHCA Regional All-Americans, one NFHCA National All-American, 10 Big East Conference All-Stars, one Big East Defensive Player-of-the-Year, one Big East Goalkeeper-of-the-Year, and one USA senior national team member in two seasons of work.

She joined the Eagles after five seasons as head coach at the University of New Brunswick, where she compiled a 65-15-7 record, and earned four Atlantic University Athletic Association Coach of the Year awards (1995, ’96, ’97 and ’99). Bean was also a finalist for national coach-of-the-year honors in each of those four seasons. During her tenure at UNB, she recruited and developed the first CIAU Top-10 National Academic All-Canadian honoree in the history of UNB athletics.

At New Brunswick, Bean coached 18 CIAU Field Hockey all-Canadians, three national Player of the Year honorees, 26 Conference All-Stars and 24 Academic All-Canadians. She also served in several other roles at New Brunswick, including Assistant Director of Campus Recreation, Academic Advisor for the faculty of Kinesiology, course instructor in Kinesiology and as an Advanced Practicum Supervisor in Kinesiology.

Bean has also remained active at other levels of field hockey. She was a regional selector for various regional USFHA National Futures Tournament Teams (2000-04), the Massachusetts Futures Elite Site head coach from 2000-02, and was an assistant coach with the Canadian Junior National Squad Identification Camps from 1996-99. Bean earned her bachelor’s degree in physical and health education at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, graduating with honors in 1993. She played field hockey at Laurentian for four years (1989-92), and earned all-conference honors in 1992 from the Ontario Women’s Inter-University Athletic Association. She was a two-time team captain and a player-assistant coach in 1992.

Bean moved on to graduate school at New Brunswick, where she led the Varsity Reds to a conference crown and the national title match in her fifth year of eligibility in 1993. She was a CIAU Field Hockey All-Canadian and a CIAU Academic all-Canadian at New Brunswick in 1993. She became the team’s assistant coach the following season.

Bean has been a Level 3 certified field hockey coach since 1994, graduated from the NCAA women’s coaching academy in 2005 and completed the NCAA Women’s Coaching Academy Dimension 2 Program in 2010.

Stacey Bean File
 

SAINT FRANCIS COACHING RECORD
Season	Record	Conference Record	Tournament
2008	3-15	2-5 NEC
2009	2-16	2-6 NEC
2010	5-13	3-4 NEC
2011	5-15	3-4 NEC	#4 seed in NEC Tournament
2012	12-6	6-1 NEC	#2 seed in NEC Tournament
2013	8-8	3-4 A-10
2014	14-3	6-2 A-10	#3 seed in A-10 Tournament
2015	10-7	4-4 A-10
TOTALS (7 Years)	59-83	25-26 | 13-10 A-10