Coaching Staff
Heather Semelmacher
Head Coach
Heather Semelmacher will begin her first season as the new women’s lacrosse coach. The programs first collegiate season will be the 2008-2009 school year.
Prior to New Paltz, Semelmacher started the lacrosse program at Saugerties high school and has served as the head coach for seven years. Before Saugerties, she worked as the assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Marist College. For the past seven years, she has worked at Anaconda Sports Inc. as the National Marketing Director for Women’s Sports and Men’s Lacrosse.
Semelmacher was a member of the Lynchburgh lacrosse and field hockey teams. She played three years of field hockey and two and half years of lacrosse before suffering a season ending injury.
Semelmacher earned a degree in Sports Medicine and Sports Marketing from Lynchburgh in 1999.
Contact Heather Semelmacher at ext. 3925 or semelmah@newpaltz.edu.