This week on Hawk Talk, Amanda Magee '10, the new head coach of the Roger Williams University Women's Lacrosse team, joined host Bryce Johnson and they discussed what it is like for her in her return to Bristol, what made her want to get into coaching, and her time coaching at NAIA-member Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

https://rwuhawktalk.podbean.com/e/hawk-talk-season-2-episode-14-amanda-magee-10-women-s-lacrosse/



https://youtu.be/lSU5-nmlPFY

Magee comes back to Bristol after spending the past seven years as the inaugural coach of the women's lacrosse program Benedictine. Building the program from scratch, Magee quickly established Benedictine as one of the premier programs at the NAIA level.
 
During her tenure, Magee compiled an overall record of 67-15 and was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times while her Benedictine squad won four Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. Under her tutelage, she has coached 30 All-KCAC players and seven NAIA All-Americans, including Natalie Wechter, the 2020 NAIA Women's Lacrosse Player of the Year.
 
Under Magee, Benedictine earned three bids to the NAIA Women's Lacrosse National Invitational as well as the first-ever NAIA Women's Lacrosse National Tournament in 2021. In 2019, the Ravens finished the year as NAIA National Invitational Runner-Up while achieving an NAIA national ranking high of #2 in the nation, the program's highest-ever national ranking. 
 
While at Roger Williams, Magee spent four seasons on the Women's Lacrosse team where she was a four-year starting goalkeeper for the Hawks. She finished her career as the program's all-time leader in wins (51), save percentage (.574), goals-against average (7.96), and saves (728), record she still holds to this day. She was a three-time All-CCC goalie (two-time first team) and was the NCAA Division III Statistical Leader in Save Percentage in her senior year.