FRANK ROGERS Head Coach -- Coach Rogers enters his 3rd year at Aquinas as the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach. In their inaugural season in 2010 the Saints went 20-2 and ended the season ranked 13th in the country.

Coach Rogers has been involved in lacrosse for over 35 years as a player, coach, and official. Frank hails from Syracuse, New York where he learned and played the game of lacrosse and has played at almost every level. Rogers started his coaching career at Watertown High School in Northern New York and followed that with a stint at Auburn High School in Central New York before coming to Michigan and coaching the WMU Men's team for three years. After a short break he returned to coaching starting nine boys and girls programs in Southwest Michigan before leaving the high school ranks to coach the WMU Women's team, before being hired to start the Women's Lacrosse program at Aquinas.

Coach Rogers has a strong background in the education of lacrosse also, having worked camps and clinics for Notre Dame, Northwestern, US Lacrosse and others. He has been a five time presenter at the US Lacrosse National Coaches Convention and continues to help the growth of lacrosse in Michigan by holding clinics and camps with local programs.
Along with his position with Aquinas, Coach Rogers is is also the First Assistant Coach for the Haudenosaunee Nation U-19 Women's Lacrosse team who is preparing to compete in the 2011 U-19 World Lacrosse Championships in Hanover, Germany in August.

The 2012 season brings much excitement and new challenges with it for the Aquinas Women's Lacrosse team. The program makes the shift from the WDIA to the NWLL, the NWLL is made up totally of other NAIA varsity programs and will present the Saints with a very challenging national schedule. Besides playing other NAIA schools the Saints will round out their schedule with NCAA D2 and D3 programs. "This brings our program more in line with all the other varsity programs at Aquinas and is an exciting time within the NAIA and the WHAC." states Head Coach Frank Rogers. "We will now have regular season games with other schools within our conference, including defending NWLL Champions, Indiana Tech. Other WHAC schools competing within the NWLL are Davenport and Siena Heights.

Aquinas will welcome back one of the most prolific scoring attacks in the country lead by Hannah Brogger (Sr., Harbor Springs), Michelle Murphy (Sr., GR Catholic Central), Kati Rogers (Jr., Portage Central) and Lauren McCarty (Jr., GR Catholic Central). This group has been playing together for three years and work very well together. The quartet is joined by Bailey Terebinski (So., Flint Powers) and newcomer, All-State player, Alexandra Burns (Fr., Ladywood), who in fall ball was asked to switch back and forth from attack and midfield. "Both Alexa and Baily will do anything you ask and play anywhere you put them, they are both very valuable pieces to our success."

The work horses of the team, the midfielders will be led by juniors Liza Flewelling (Flint Powers) and Taelor Sanders (Dewitt).  The duo will combine with a very strong group of returning sophomores.  Taylor Truttschel (Hartland, WI), Abby Lux (Northbrook, IL) and Samantha Hughes (Colerain, OH) all contributed last year as freshmen. Coach Rogers has added a strong group of freshmen.  Haley Jacob (Rocky River, OH), Hannah Seelman (FR, Portage Central), and Kenzie Klingenberg (Grand Haven) will help round out this group which is called on to play both ends of the field.

The Aquinas defense will again be anchored and lead by co-captain Bre Stockall (Jr., Okemos). Stockall returns from an All American season in which she allowed less than five goals per game. In front of her will be a very quick and athletic defense, almost all of them comes to Aquinas after playing summer travel lacrosse for Head Coach Frank Rogers. "These young ladies may be freshmen on paper but not in experience. Almost all of them have played at least one year of summer ball for my travel team and have a very good idea what we are doing on defense and what our expectations are.  This past summer we won all three tournaments we played in and shut down some very good teams, we are very excited to get them on the field and playing for Aquinas."

Defensive returners Samantha Fogus (So., Midland-Dow) and Alisa Skluzacek (St Charles, IL)  have worked very well with the new players and with fellow upper classmen, transfer Monelle Bradshaw (Corel Springs, FL/Florida Gulf Coast). They have provided strong leadership for freshmen Meaghan Farrell (GR Catholic Central), Mackenzie Yoas (Grand Haven), Jolie Williams (East Grand Rapids) and Celia Kaechele (Forest Hills).  Goalies Meghan Gray (So., Guerin Catholic, IN) and Keegan Maltby (Jr., Ladywood/Mt St Joesph College) both received valuable experience this past fall ball season when Stockall was doing a study aboard in Spain. "Those minutes in games and the chance to lead the team in practice and work with our defense more in practice really helped both of them, we have confidence in both of them, that when called on they will perform very well for us." stated Assistant Coach Katy Mohr, who leads the teams defense.

The Saints open their 2012 season on March 5th vs. Birmingham Southern University. Aquinas will play their first NWLL game the following day vs. Reinhardt in Birmingham, Alabama. The Saints home opener will be March 15th vs. newly elevated NCAA program Calvin College.  "We have the best fans in the world and have always drawn bigger crowds than any other team we play. We thank our Aquinas community and look forward to seeing you all out there again this year, cheering us on." states Frank Rogers.