Assistant Coaches: Kim Hillier, Greg Miceli, Kasey Mitchell
Head coach Joe Spallina was trying to figure out ways to shut down USC star Kaeli Huff when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Stony Brook canceled the game hours later, and the season was over the next day. It was a tough blow for a Seawolves team that beat Syracuse in the Carrier Dome to open the season and thought it had a legitimate shot at its first-ever national championship.
Flash forward 11 months. Huff is now a Seawolf, and she’ll play alongside Tewaaraton hopeful Ally Kennedy, who accepted the fifth year of eligibility in a heartbeat. Add in classmate and All-American Taryn Ohlmiller and a 13-player freshman class that Spallina calls his best ever, and you get a Stony Brook team that doesn’t expect to pick up where it left off last year it wants more.