D’Angelo Comes Aboard as Blue Devil Girls’ Lax Head Coach
With the season little more than a month away, the Blue Devils girls’ lacrosse coaching staff is in place after Huntington School Board members approved the appointment of head coach Melissa D’Angelo and assistant coach Brad Reminick.
The new coaches will be taking over from Tricia Martin and Karen Fischer, who guided the Blue Devils to the Suffolk Class B finals last spring. Several veteran players return, but the team will be without Kailene Abt, one of its biggest 2007 stars, who graduated last June and is now at Notre Dame.
D’Angelo, who will be inducted in the Long Island Lacrosse Hall of Fame this year, comes to Huntington after serving as head coach at St. Anthony’s High School from 2001 through the 2007 season. During her tenure, the Friars won Catholic High School Athletic League titles in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. D’Angelo also served as head coach at Walt Whitman from 1995 to 2001.
A 1984 graduate of SUNY College at Oneonta with a B.S. degree in accounting, D’Angelo was a four year varsity lacrosse starter there. She was a U.S. Women’s Lacrosse Club national player from 1985 to 1990.
In addition to her high school coaching experience, D’Angelo has been vice-president of the U.S. Lacrosse Youth Council since 2001, has been a member of the Lacrosse Coaches Education Core Committee since 2002 and has been a Long Island women’s lacrosse umpire since 1985. She was president of the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation from 1998 to 2001.
Huntington Director of Athletics Georgia D. McCarthy interviewed four candidates for the position before recommending D’Angelo for appointment.
Reminick, who has served for a number of years as head coach of the Blue Devil girls’ basketball team, will work with many of the same student-athletes. The season will start the first week of March.
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