Alexandra Calder was named assistant coach of the St. Lawrence University field hockey team in the summer of 2017.
A former student-athlete at Gettysburg College, Calder was a four-year midfielder for the Bullets, served as a team captain as a senior and was named a National Field Hockey Coaches Association's (NFHCA) Scholar of Distinction. She was also a volunteer assistant coach for Gettysburg and previously coached TNT Club Field Hockey in Baltimore.
"I'm very excited to have Alex on the staff," said head coach
Fran Grembowicz. "Having come from a Division III institution herself, she brings a perspective of the complete student-athlete experience that our players can easily identify with here at St. Lawrence. Additionally, as a former midfielder she can help us on both sides of the ball and her ties to the Mid-Atlantic, and particularly the Baltimore, region will be a huge asset to our recruiting."
In addition to her athletic accomplishments, Calder was inducted into two academic honor societies: Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society and Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. She was a member of the Bullets' Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, studied abroad in France and worked in the college's athletics communications office. She graduated magna cum laude from Gettysburg in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a secondary education certification and a minor in history.
Prior to joining the Saints coaching staff Calder was a long-term substitute teacher at the Upper Adams Middle School in Bigleville, Pennsylvania.
