Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Kim Cosenza enters her fifth year as the field hockey head coach at WPI. 

WPI concluded the 2024 campaign with a 12-7 overall record and a 7-2 mark in NEWMAC action. The Engineers secured the third seed for the third straight season and defeated Springfield, 1-0 to earn a spot in the NEWMAC semifinal for the fifth-consecutive occasion. Junior Eve Martineau and graduate students Samantha Robison and Lauren Meinhold earned All-NEWMAC first team honors as senior Eliza Dutson was tabbed to the second team. Meinhold, Martineau and Robison were tabbed to the NFHCA Region I second team. 

The Crimson and Gray finished the 2023 season 10-9 with a 7-2 mark in NEWMAC play and earned a postseason conference tournament home contest for the second-consecutive year defeating Wellesley. The 2023 squad posted four members to the postseason All-NEWMAC team featuring two on the first and second teams in addition to Samantha Robison and Eve Martineau earning spots on the NFHCA All-Region I second team. Cosenza's group claimed nine individual national academic honors as a part of the NFHCA National Academic Squad in addition to Lauren Coutu and Chloe Luongo being recognized as Scholars of Distinction in 2023. 

In 2022, Cosenza led the group to a 12-8 overall record with a 6-2 mark in NEWMAC action with both conference losses coming to nationally-ranked programs. The Engineers rallied for six consecutive victories in the month of October before falling 4-2 to MIT in Cambridge. The Crimson and Gray then claimed the three-seed spot in the NEWMAC tournament and defeated Wellesley at home before slipping to then 12th-ranked MIT, 0-1. 

WPI finished the 2021 season at 11-7 marking a 4-4 record in NEWMAC play under first-year head coach Kim Cosenza. WPI advanced past Wheaton in the opening round of the NEWMAC Tournament in an overtime thriller where Lauren Meinhold converted on her only game-winner of the season, pushing the Engineers to a conference tournament semifinal appearance before the campaign came to a close against nationally-ranked, and eventual NEWMAC champions, Babson. Eliza Dutson garnered All-NEWMAC first team praise as the first rookie in WPI history to claim such honor in addition to being named to the NFHCA All-Region first team. Nini Acquista earned All-Conference second team honors after sharing the top save percentage (.807) in the league and was recognized to the CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large team. In the classroom, Cosenza’s squad totaled 17 members named to the 2021 NFHCA Division III National Academic Squad and six honored as Scholars of Distinction.

Cosenza arrives on Boynton Hill after serving stints as head coach at Fitchburg State, Worcester State and Elms. She spent the last three seasons as head coach of the Falcons, where she notched a double-digit win total during her first campaign at Fitchburg State in 2018, earning a home game in the 2018 Little East Conference (LEC) Tournament.

Prior to Fitchburg State, Cosenza spent the 2015 season as head coach at her alma mater Worcester State.  She guided the Lancers to their first appearance in the LEC semifinals since 2006, while having 11 players recognized by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA).  At Elms, Cosenza took over a team that was winless the season before her arrival and led the Blazers to a spot in the 2012 New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) championship game.

Cosenza was a two-sport standout at Worcester State, excelling in field hockey and lacrosse. Cosenza graduated in 2009 with a degree in health education and went on to earn a Master's of physical education in athletic administration from Springfield College in 2011 where she served as a graduate assistant for the Pride.  She also played field hockey internationally for Club Pinjacker in the Netherlands.