This season the John Carroll field hockey team announced their new coach, Jazmin Petrantonio. She is a graduate of Shippensburg University where she played Division II field hockey.

For Coach Petrantonio, field hockey is all she has known since she started playing when she was only five-years-old since her older sister played the sport.

Throughout her field hockey career, Coach Petrantonio accomplished many achievements including Division II Women Athlete of the Year, two-time Longstreth/NFHCA National Player of the Year, four-time NFHCA All-America First Team, and the PSAC Field Hockey Freshman of the Year along with many more accomplishments.

Coach Petrantonio scored 106 career goals, making her the third- highest scoring player in NCAA Division II history.

Her most memorable moment as a player was “winning three National Championships with my best friends.”

For her coaching experience, she was an assistant coach at C Milton Wright High School and coached the club team H2O’s U19 team.

Along with that, she was also a member of the coaching staff for the NEXUS USA Training & Selection Camp.

What inspired Coach Petrantonio to join the JC field hockey program and be the head coach was her desire to always be up for a new challenge.

“I could have chosen to stay where I felt comfortable, but that’s not how we grow as people and as coaches, so taking the role as Head Coach allowed me to expose myself to a new environment and team which is helping me grow as a person and as a coach”

As for the team, Coach Petrantonio’s goal is to leave each season on a higher note than when the team begun. “My goal is to create a culture of championship where competing for titles is a standard not an exception to the rule.”

Off the field, Coach Petrantonio’s goal is to raise leaders through sports; she believes that “there is no better way to life than through sports especially for young women.”

Coach Petrantonio likes to bring a style of modern style field hockey to the field and to her players. “That has been my tactic or style ever since I was a player. Where we think outside the box, we utilize the small passing game, and we don’t rely on individual talent.”