WFL Players Clinic with Coach Michele Uhlfelder 

Friday, August 13 4:30-6:30pm
Academy of Holy Angels turf field

(Lakers & Monarchs practice)
 *ALL WFL coaches invited to attend for professional development!!!

 
Michele Uhlfelder – Head Coach, Occidental College (CA)
Uhlfelder brings 14 years of Division I coaching experience and over 15 years of playing experience for the U.S.A. National Team and at the University of Maryland.  As a four-year starter for the Terps (1987-91) she helped Maryland to National Runner-up finishes at the NCAA Championships in 1990 and 1991, and she was selected to the NCAA All-Tournament Team twice. She was chosen as the 1991 National Offensive Player of the Year and First Team All-America, while served as a team captain her senior year.

As a junior in college, Uhlfelder made the U.S. Squad in 1990 and was a two-time  member of the US World Cup Team. In the 2001 World Cup, she was the third-highest scorer on the gold medal winning American team, ranking sixth among all scorers at the World Cup, and contributing two goals in the 14-8 win over Australia in the title game. Her first World Cup appearance came in 1997 (Tokyo, Japan) when the U.S. won the gold and she earned Player-of-the-match honors versus Canada.

From the field to the sidelines, Uhlfelder easily shifted from player to coach. She spent seven years as an assistant coach at Duke University (1998-2000) and Old Dominion University (1994-1998) before joining the Cardinal as the head coach beginning in 2000.
While at Stanford she wasted no time in transforming the program into a national force, leading the Cardinal to be selected as the first west coast program to crack the top-20. From there she continued to build the program and the success was obvious. In 2006 the squad became the first team from west of the Mississippi to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. She coached six All-Americans at Duke, before leading two Cardinal players to All-American honors in 2006, marking it the first in school history. Part of Uhlfelder's success came from attacking the building blocks which would make them a national contender--strength of schedule and recruiting.

In league play Stanford won six league titles (2005 and 2006) and she was twice named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Coach of the Year (2004 and 2005), marking the first time since the inception of the league that a coach earned that honor in back-to-back seasons.
Beyond the collegiate ranks, Uhlfelder has been responsible for promoting the growth of women's lacrosse nationally. She has run successful camps and developed club programs, which teach lacrosse skills, strategy and technique, as well as raise athleticism and level of player in the country.