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| Title: | Head Coach |
| Phone: | 410-778-7257 |
| Email: | jblankenship2@washcoll.edu |
| College: | Gettysburg '04 |
| Office Location: | Cain Athletic Center - Second Floor |
Julika Blankenship has been the head women's lacrosse coach at Washington College since July 2008.
In the spring of 2010, she led the Shorewomen to their best record in six years. In the spring of 2011, Blankenship guided them to 11 wins - their highest total since 2003 - and their first Centennial Conference Tournament berth since that same year. She was named the conference's Coach of the Year. The following spring, the team reached the Centennial Conference Championship game for the first time ever. In 2013, the Shorewomen reached the conference tournament for the third year in a row, were nationally-ranked for the first time in a decade, and won 13 games.
Prior to taking on a head coaching role, Blankenship served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at the College for three seasons. She also served as head women's soccer coach from July 2008 to June 2012.
A native of nearby Crumpton, Blankenship starred in both soccer and lacrosse in high school, spending two years at Queen Anne's County High School before transferring to neighboring Kent County High School. In soccer, Blankenship was a three-time All-North Bayside selection and led Kent County to two of the best soccer seasons in the school's history. Blankenship earned North-South Senior All-Star honors as a senior, leading the team in assists and finishing second on the team in goals while serving as a team captain. In lacrosse, Blankenship earned Mid-Shore Player of the Year honors as a junior and senior, recording at least 100 points in each of those two seasons. She was named her team's Most Valuable Player as a senior, leading Kent County to a Regional Championship.
Blankenship went on to have a standout collegiate lacrosse playing career at Gettysburg College, where she finished her career as the all-time leader in both points (309) and assists (160). As a senior captain in 2004, she led the Bullets to their third consecutive Centennial Conference Championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals. She was named a first team All-American by the IWLCA/US Lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse, and Womenslacrosse.com and was selected as the Centennial Conference and ECAC Southern Player of the Year. Blankenship, who was also a second team Inside Lacrosse All-American as a junior, put up back-to-back 100-point seasons in her final two years with the Bullets, breaking the single-season school record for assists in each pf those seasons.
Blankenship graduated from Gettysburg with a B.A. in Spanish in 2004 and spent one year as an assistant women's lacrosse coach for Division I UC Davis before arriving at Washington College. While serving as an assistant coach at Washington, Blankenship earned a Master's Degree in Psychology.
| Title: | Coordinator of Student-Athlete Services |
| Phone: | 410-778-7236 |
| Email: | rboyle2@washcoll.edu |
| College: | Ohio '96 |
| Office Location: | Cain Athletic Center - First Floor (Inside Gym) |
Rachel Boyle is the College's head field hockey coach and also co-coordinates its Student-Athlete Services programs.
| Title: | Associate Athletic Director/Scheduling Coordinator |
| Phone: | 410-778-7243 |
| Email: | tmoore2@washcoll.edu |
| College: | Salisbury '96 |
| Office Location: | Cain Athletic Center - Ground Floor |
Thad Moore has served as Washington College's head athletic trainer since 2000. Moore, who has been a certified athletic trainer since 1997, earned his B.S. in Physical Education from Salisbury in 1996 and his M.A. in Education with a concentration in Sports Management from Connecticut in 1999. He is presently working on his M.S. in Healthcare Administration.
Prior to his arrival at Washington College, Moore worked as an intern at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore and as the head athletic trainer at the Mark Mettrick Professional Soccer School. From 1997-2000, he was a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of Connecticut, where he worked with the Huskies' football program.
Moore is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the College Athletic Trainers Association. He is also a certified American Red Cross Instructor in first aid, CPR, and AED.
Moore also serves as Assistant Athletic Director, a
lecturer in the Physical Education department, and as an advisor to
Washington's Student-Athlete Mentor program.
| Title: | Assistant Coach |
| Phone: | 410-810-7137 |
| Email: | cseiders2@washcoll.edu |
| College: | Ohio '11 |
| Office Location: | Cain Athletic Center - First Floor (Inside Gym) |
Courtney Seiders was named an assistant coach for the Shorewomen in August 2011. Seiders was a two-year starter in goal for Division I Ohio University after transferring from Old Dominion. She was a two-time All Mid-American Conference (MAC) selection, earning second-team honors as a junior and first-team honors as a senior, and was named the MAC's Defensive Player of the Week four times. Seiders helped lead her team to the 2009 MAC Tournament Championship and a spot in the NCAA Division I Tournament's play-in game. She was also a member of the MAC Academic Squad and a four-time qualifier for the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Academic Squad. In addition, she served as a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) representative.
Seiders has been an assistant goalkeeping coach for Simply Field Hockey since 2005 and has served as a goalkeeping coach at various camps and also provided individual goalkeeping lessons. She completed her Level 1 coaching accreditation class in January 2011.
A native of Mt. Joy, PA. Seiders earned a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Ohio University in 2011.













