Kate Livesay enters her eighth season as the Trinity women's lacrosse coach, after guiding the Bantams to the College's first women's NCAA Division III Championship title and the best season in the history of the program in 2012 and back to the NCAA Finals last spring. Trinity defeated Salisbury...
Kate Livesay enters her eighth season as the Trinity women's lacrosse coach, after guiding the Bantams to the College's first women's NCAA Division III Championship title and the best season in the history of the program in 2012 and back to the NCAA Finals last spring. Trinity defeated Salisbury, 8-7, in the 2012 NCAA Finals, as the Bantams set a new College record for wins in a season with 21 against just one loss. In 2013, Trinity matches that won-loss record, winning their first 21 games to set a new College record with 29 victories in a row, before falling to Salisbury, 12-5, in the NCAA Finals.
Trinity qualified for the NESCAC Championship Tournament for the seventh straight season and the ninth time overall with a perfect 10-0 league mark that gave the Bantams the top seed in the league tourney for the fourth consecutive year in 2013. Trinity also captured its third NESCAC title in a row, qualifying for the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament for the fourth year in a row and the sixth time in Livesay's tenure last spring. In 2011, Trinity cruised through a 14-0 regular season, won its first NESCAC title, and posted an 18-1 record with a second-straight NCAA Regional Finals appearance. In seven years at the helm, Livesay has racked up an 108-23 record (.824), leading Trinity to the NCAA Championship Tournament in sixth of the seven. Livesay has coached three NESCAC Player of the Year and three National Positional Players of the Year. In addition, 10 of Livesay's players were selected as All-Americans in 2012 and 2013.
Prior to being named interim head coach in 2007 and leading the Bantams to their first NCAA Tournament since 1998, Livesay spent two years at Trinity as a graduate assistant for the Bantam lacrosse and field hockey teams, and continued as an assistant field hockey coach for six fall seasons. She was honored as the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Regional Coach of the Year in 2007 and the last four springs in a row, and as the IWLCA National Coach of the Year in 2013. In May, Livesay also received a Coach of the Year Award during Trinity's annual athletic department awards banquet.
Livesay earned a bachelor's degree in American civilization from Middlebury College, where she was a four-year starter and captain as a senior in field hockey and lacrosse. Also a two-year letterwinner in basketball for the Panthers, Livesay earned her master's degree in 2007 from Trinity in history.