Regis University Athletics

Kate Hood enters her seventh season as assistant women's lacrosse coach at Regis in 2016-17, following a two year-stint as head field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Simmons College, a Division III school in Boston, MA. The Rangers are 72-28 (.720) since Hood joined the staff in 2010.
 
The Rangers completed the 2014 season with the program’s most successful season to date. Finishing the season at 14-3, the Rangers’ only three losses came to Division I or ranked opponents. The team achieved its first ever national poll rankings, ending the season at #15 and winning the RMAC tournament. The Rangers led the nation in caused turnovers per game, the third year in a row the team has led a statistical category. They also provided the nation’s 4^th best goals against average on defense. Academically, the team was again awarded an IWLCA Honor Squad Award, and the IWLCA Division II Scholar-Athlete of the Year was a Ranger.
 
Hood, previously Leonard, is a 2003 graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where she majored in Psychology. She was a second team all-conference and an IWLCA all-region lacrosse performer her senior season, leading the team to an NCAA Division III tournament berth. Her team was the 2000 NCAA Championship runner-up and 2001 ECAC Champion team. Hood scored 31 goals and added nine assists, tying for the team lead in goals her senior campaign. She was a member of the Williams College field hockey team which was the NESCAC championship team and qualified for the NCAA tournament every year she played. At Williams, Hood was also a two-time captain of the Division I alpine ski team. She qualified for the NCAA Championships in skiing and was an NCAA Division I Academic All-American. As a senior, Hood was the recipient of the college’s Kate Hogan 25^th Anniversary of Women in Sports Award.
 
Hood led Simmons College, a lacrosse program that she started, to a 6-6 record on the lacrosse field in 2010. Hood coached nine lacrosse all-conference athletes and two field hockey all-conference athletes in her two years at Simmons.
 
Hood was a coach, tutor, and house parent at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass from 2006-08. She was also the head girl's field hockey and lacrosse coach, while also acting as an assistant coach for the alpine ski team. During this time, Hood earned her MA in Education from Tufts University. She is currently working on her Doctor of Psychology in Sports and Performance Psychology.

Hood lives in Golden, Colo. with her husband and two children.