Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke announced on Friday the hiring of Emily Boissoneault as the school’s first head coach of women’s lacrosse. Boissoneault comes to Pitt from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she served as the team’s associate head coach for four years under Shelley Klaes-Bawcombe and helped guide the Dukes to a national title in 2018.
”It takes a special individual to build a program from scratch. You need someone who has great vision, relentless energy and confidence to build something unprecedented,” Lyke said in a statement. “I am excited we have found that type of person and leader in Emily Boissonneault.