Now in her 12th season at the helm of Wheaton College’s field hockey program and fourth as senior woman administrator, Rebecca Begley has been an integral member of the athletic department since the fall of 2000.

Begley's has guided the Lyons to a record of 59-42 (.584) over the last five years, during which time her squad has advanced to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament Semifinals four times and twice qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament. Wheaton has won 10-or-more games in four of the last five seasons, and Begley’s 2006 and 2007 squads were responsible for posting the first back-to-back double-digit win seasons in program history.

The 2010 version of the Lyons field hockey squad posted a 13-8 mark (6-2 NEWMAC) and advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament. The team’s final win of the season – a 7-0 triumph over Clark University in the quarterfinals – marked win No. 100 of Begley’s career.

From 2001-05, Begley also guided the Wheaton women's lacrosse program to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances, two NEWMAC Tournament crowns and three regular season conference titles. In 2004, the Lyons set a single season school record for wins (15) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament national quarterfinal round. Begley owns a pair of NEWMAC Coach of the Year awards and a career mark of 59-26 (.694).

In addition to her coaching duties at Wheaton, Begley also serves as the department’s compliance officer, supervises facilities, and is the Director of the Lyons Athletic Club. In 2011, she was named as the college’s Title IX Coordinator.

Begley is a member of several organizations and serves on a number of committees. She currently serves on the NCAA Virtual Focus Group, National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Awards & Hall of Fame Committee and ECAC Tournament field hockey selection committee. Begley has also chaired the NFHCA Coach of the Year committee and was a member of the New England all-region women's lacrosse selection committee and Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) ethics committee.

Begley directs Wheaton's summer program for the NIKE Field Hockey Camp. A field hockey and lacrosse instructor at various summer camps from 1993-99, Begley founded a girls' day camp in 1993 as field hockey director in Merrimack, NH.

Prior to Wheaton, Begley spent two seasons as the assistant field hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. While at Denison, the field hockey team captured consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championships. In 1999, the field hockey team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament with a 16-4 record. The women's lacrosse squad also won consecutive NCAC titles, with the 2000 team automatically qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.

Begley also spent one year as head field hockey coach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where her 1997 squad tied a school record for the most wins in a season (14-6). Additionally, she was responsible for assisting the head women's lacrosse coach in the spring of 1998.

A native of Concord, New Hampshire, Begley is a 1996 graduate of Dickinson College, where she was a three-time all-region honoree and four-year letterwinner in field hockey. A former center midfielder, she is among the all-time assists leaders at Dickinson. Begley earned a bachelor's degree in American studies with a concentration in Alaskan native studies.

Ashley Miller begins her first season as an assistant coach at Wheaton College in 2011.

A 2008 graduate of Wheaton, Miller was a four-year member of the Lyons field hockey team. As a senior, she was an athletic mentor and traveled with the team to Argentina as an active player.

Miller worked the Nike Field Hockey Camp at Wheaton in 2011, a camp which she attended years prior and one which eventually led to her attend Wheaton. She began her coaching career as an assistant at MIT in 2008.

Miller graduated Wheaton with a bachelor's degree in English.

An experienced high school coach, camp instructor and league director, Patricia Zini begins her fifth season on the Wheaton College field hockey coaching staff in 2011.

Prior to her arrival in Norton, Zini served as the junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach at Shepherd Hill Regional High School in Dudley during the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

Every summer since 2001, Zini has worked as a head coach at the Tantasqua Regional High School camp in Fiskdale, where she also created a curriculum for the campers. Zini has also worked a field hockey camp at Worcester State College (2006) and spent time at the Connecticut Elite camp in Storrs, CT (2004) and STX camp in Amherst (2003).  

In 2003, Zini founded the Turf Burn Field Hockey Summer League after receiving a grant from the Penn Monto Field Hockey Foundation. Since then, she has served as the director for a league in which adults and high school students from Connecticut and central Massachusetts compete. Additionally, Zini founded the Turf Juniors in summer 2005, which is a six-week clinic which she runs for girls ages 10 to 14.

A 2005 graduate of Trinity College, Zini was a four-year student-athlete who appeared in 37 games for the Bantams. As a senior, she started all 15 games and tied for the team lead with four assists, helping Trinity qualify for its first New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Tournament.

Zini earned a bachelor’s degree in English and has worked as an assistant preschool teacher in the Head Start Program in Southbridge and an English Language Arts teacher at Randolph Community Middle School.