field hockey Coaches

Entering her 14th season as Saint field hockey coach, Fran Grembowicz has established the Saints among the region's top programs, tying the SLU record with 14 wins en route both the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association tournament title and the ECAC Mid-Atlantic field hockey championship in 2000 and leading her team to the NCAA regional final in 2001. Under her guidance, the Saints were Liberty League regular-season co-champions in 2006, 2008 and 2009.

Her teams have been .500 or better for the last 10 of the last 11 seasons and have a 123-66 record in that span, boosting her career record at St. Lawrence to 138-84 (.623) in field hockey.

Her teams made three straight post-season appearances from 2000-2002 and her team won its second ECAC Mid-Atlantic Championship in three years in '02. The Saints were Liberty League tournament finalists in 2004, 2006 and 2007. She was conference Coach of the Year in 2001 and shared that honor in 2008 and was one of the coaches for the North team in the North-South Senior All Star game in 2004.

Also the coach of the Saint softball program, one she built from the ground up, and her team was 2000 conference champion and 2001 conference runner-up. She began her Saint coaching career as women's basketball coach, and laid the foundation for a program which emerged as one of the top small college programs in the East.

Joanna Fernandes was named the assistant field hockey coach at St. Lawrence University in the summer of 2010.  Fernandes earned America East All-Conference honors while playing Division I field hockey at the University of Maine.

Joanna graduated from the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education with a concentration in math.  She has participated in tournaments across the globe with a club team and has represented Team Ontario at the Canadian Championships for several years.

The recipient of the Wes Jordan Athletic-Service Award in her senior year at Maine, Fernandes was an outstanding student while playing with the Black Bears.  Since graduating in the spring of 2007, she has worked with the International Charity Association Network and taught math at the Sommerville Manor Private School. 

Lorie MacKenzie will serve as the field hockey team's Faculty/Staff Mentor for 2010-2011.

MacKenzie is the University's Assistant Dean for Academic Administration. She is also the Director of the Summerterm at St. Lawrence and is teaching "Sitcomes in American Culture" for the First-Year Seminar alongside Dr. Valerie Lehr, University Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs.

In this seminar, students explore the ways American culture has been represented in popular television situation comedies from the 1950s through the present. They examine popular series from various decades, as well as the scholarly analysis of situation comedies, to explore how these comedic shows provide a window into each time period.