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Andrew Weimer was named head baseball coach.
Weimer is a former standout relief pitcher at Division
I Le Moyne College. He was a senior on the school’s
2003 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship
team that advanced to the NCAA tournament. He
was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 15th round
of the Major League Baseball’s 2003 amateur draft,
and played professionally in the minor league systems
of the Rays and the Cincinnati Reds. Most recently, he
has pitched for Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent
Atlantic League. He was an assistant coach at Mohawk
Valley Community College from 2004 to 2009.
Erin Knight is the new head
coach of men’s and women’s
swimming and diving and
women’s water polo. She will
also serve as director of aquatics.
Knight is a 2003 graduate
of Hamilton College, where she
was a three-year member of the
swim team. She also swam one
season at the U.S. Naval Academy.
She came to Utica College
in 2008 as an assistant cross
county coach and volunteer
assistant swimming and diving coach. She has also
coached swimming with the New Hartford Aquatics
Swim Club and New Hartford High School.
Sarah Bergmann was named head field hockey
coach. She comes to UC from Earlham College in
Richmond, IN, where she was an assistant coach for
the past two seasons. A 2005 graduate of Drew University
and a two-sport collegiate athlete, playing both
field hockey and lacrosse, Bergmann was a three-year
all-conference field hockey selection and a senior team
captain in 2004, when she helped lead Drew to the
second round of the NCAA Division III tournament.
She earned her master’s degree from the University
of California at Berkeley in 2006. In addition to her
coaching experience at Earlham, she has worked as a
coach and instructor at several field hockey summer
camps for the past seven years.
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Mike Parnell, head men’s lacrosse coach, spent the
summer traveling across the country on weekends as
an assistant coach for the Chicago Machine of Major
League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor
lacrosse league in the U.S. The opportunity to coach in
the professional ranks came from Machine head coach
John Combs, with whom Parnell coached at Colgate
University in 2004. “I learned a lot this summer, and I
look forward to using those learning experiences this
year at Utica College,” says Parnell, who is entering his
fifth season as Pioneers’ head coach.
UC will gain two new football
rivals beginning in 2011, when
the Empire 8 Conference welcomes
Frostburg State University
and Salisbury University as
affiliate members. The two Maryland schools will play
a partial Empire 8 schedule in 2010.
The UC football team
won its season opener in
record-setting fashion.
The Pioneers’ 64-7 victory
over Becker College on
September 5 at Charles
A. Gaetano Stadium
represented the largest
scoring margin in school
history. UC scored nine
touchdowns, including three on defense and three by
running back Zach Jones ’12.
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