Amanda Daniels

Amanda Daniels enters her 13th season as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Denison. Few Division III coaches in the sport have enjoyed as much success in that span.

Her Big Red teams have made 11 trips to the NCAA tournament, including six Sweet Sixteen runs and a 2021 Final Four appearance. Daniels has a 153-63 overall record at Denison.

She came to Denison after five seasons as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Morrisville State College. At Morrisville State, Daniels posted a 41-41 record while leading the Mustangs to their first North Eastern Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship in 2012.

Prior to her time at Morrisville State, Daniels spent one year as the assistant women’s lacrosse coach and assistant women’s soccer coach at Hamilton College. She helped guide the women’s lacrosse team to a 21-1 record and the program’s first NCAA Division III Championship in 2008.

A 2003 graduate of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, Daniels was a four-time first-team All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference selection in women’s lacrosse. She was a part of two MAAC Tournament championship teams and two NCAA Division I Tournament teams. She served as a team captain in 2003 and left Le Moyne with 190 career points. Daniels was also a four-year member of the women’s soccer team, which she led in scoring as a senior.

After graduating Cum Laude with a bachelor of arts in English and communication, Daniels received a masters’ degree in New Media from Syracuse University’s esteemed SI Newhouse School of Communications in 2004. While attending graduate school, Daniels spent one season as a part-time assistant coach at Le Moyne.