Sarah Quigley joined the women's lacrosse coaching staff in Fall of 2024. A 2014 alumnus of Lycoming College and the captain of the Spanish National Team at the 2022 World Women's Lacrosse Championships, Quigley comes to the River Hawks after a five-year run as head coach of her alma mater.
Despite her first two seasons in 2020 and 2021 being severely altered due to the pandemic, Quigley helped the Warriors make two appearances in the postseason and coached nine all-conference picks, two conference rookies of the year and helped the team to back-to-back .500 or better seasons for the first time since 2017. Quigley spearheaded a dramatic turnaround in the Warriors in 2022, as the team finished 10-9 overall and reached the semifinals of the MAC Freedom Championship, defeating DeSales in a conference tournament first round game at UPMC Field. The Warriors featured four all-conference players, including MAC Freedom Rookie of the Year Katie Maguire.
She continued that run in 2023, as the Warriors finished 9-9 overall and again reached the semifinals of the MAC Freedom Championship thanks to an 11-9 win over Arcadia in the first round of the tournament. The Warriors had three all-conference players and MAC Freedom Rookie of the Year Riley Block. She and the program made the transition to the Landmark Conference for the 2024 season, where the team posted a 6-9 record and conference wins over Wilkes and Goucher. The program etched its first All-Landmark honorees in Second Team attacker Riley Block and Honorable Mention goalie Zoe Stauffer.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Lycoming College in 2014, Quigley returned to New City, N.Y., where she became the varsity girls' lacrosse coach at Hastings High School before moving to Clarkstown South in 2017, where she served as the head coach for the past three seasons. She also coached with the Clarkstown Lightning club program and Dip N Dunk Lacrosse.
In 2018, while finishing a Master of Social Work from New York University, she joined the Spanish National Team, where she served as captain of the team at the European Lacrosse Championships, helping the team to a 4-3 record. Since joining the team, Quigley has scored 19 goals in the team's 12 games, leading the squad.
Quigley was a four-year starter for the Warriors, finishing her career with 55 points and two game-winning goals, including a thrilling last-minute score in a 17-16 win over Albright in 2012. Quigley was valuable in nearly every aspect of the game, as she also scooped up 109 ground balls, picked up 50 draw controls and caused 21 turnovers in her career.
