Field Hockey Coaching Staff

Head Coach - Emily Dewdney
Phone: 603-526-3489
E-mail: emily.dewdney@colby-sawyer.edu

Emily Dewdney enters year six at Colby-Sawyer College as the head coach of the field hockey program and is the second coach in program history. Dewdney also continues to be the women's lacrosse coach at Colby-Sawyer heading into her seventh year in 2024-25.

The Chargers made it back to the GNAC Championship in 2023 after a 14-5 record and a 9-3 GNAC record. Colby-Sawyer advanced to the championship after defeating Rivier in the GNAC Quarterfinals and upsetting Lasell in the GNAC Semifinals. The Chargers would eventually fall to Johnson & Wales in the GNAC Championship game. This year Dewdney surpassed 50 career wins for Colby-Sawyer. Emily coached seven GNAC All-Conference selections, three NFHCA Scholars of Distinction and four CSC Academic All-District members.

In 2022, the Chargers had another successful season going 13-6 overall including a 8-3 GNAC record. Colby-Sawyer finished the year in the GNAC Semi-Finals after defeating Rivier University in the first round before falling to eventual GNAC Champion Johnson & Wales University.

In 2021, Dewdney led the Chargers into the best season in program history finishing the season with a 16-4 overall record and finishing as the GNAC regular season champion and GNAC runner up. Dewdney was also named the GNAC Coach of the Year in 2021 for her record-setting season.

Under her direction, six student-athlete has been named to the All-GNAC First Team, six to the All-GNAC Second Team, four to the All-GNAC Third Team and 48 have earned NFHCA National Academic Team honors (six were NFHCA Honors of Distinction).

Prior to being named the head coach in 2019, Dewdney spent the previous eight seasons as an assistant coach for the field hockey and women's lacrosse programs at Colby-Sawyer. Dewdney was an integral part of the early years of the field hockey program, helping to raise the club team to varsity status and now transform the program into a
consistent GNAC Championship contender.

Dewdney is a 2010 graduate of Allegheny College with a Bachelor's in Women's Studies, Dewdney played four years for the women's lacrosse team, which was regionally ranked. She earned NCAC First-Team accolades as one of the league's top defenders.

Dewdney, who is a certified personal trainer, lives in Sunapee with her husband Tyler, daughter Thea and two australian shepherds Dempsey and Fisher. The New London, N.H. native is also a graduate of nearby Kimball Union Academy.

Career Record

Year	Overall Record	Conference Record	Result
2019	8-9	4-4 (GNAC)
2020 *
2021	16-4	10-1 (GNAC)	GNAC Regular Season Champions, GNAC Runner-Up
2022	13-6	8-3 (GNAC)	GNAC Semifinals
2023	14-5	9-3 (GNAC)	GNAC Runner-Up
Total	61-24	31-11 (GNAC)
* 2020 Season Canceled Due to COVID-19

Assistant Coach - Julia Lanctot '21, G '22

Julia "Dottie" Lanctot enters her second year on the coaching staff for the 2023 season after being a student-athlete at Colby-Sawyer for the past five years.

Lanctot finished her career as one of the best in the field hockey program history ranking tied for third all-time in points (62), fourth in goals (22), second in assists (18) and fourth in game-winners (6). Dottie had her best season in 2021, dishing out a program-record six assists to go along with 10 goals good for seventh in program history.

Lanctot was also a NFHCA Scholar of Distinction four times at Colby-Sawyer, a 2021 Wynn Jesser McGrew Scholar-Athlete Award winner and was the 2021 GNAC Woman of the Year.

Lanctot is also currently an assistant brand manager at Stonyfield Yogurt.

Lanctot graduated Colby-Sawyer with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration before continuing into Colby-Sawyer's fifth-year M.B.A. program, receiving her graduate degree in 2022.

Assistant Coach - Aleah Murph '24

Aleah Murph joins Emily Dewdney's field hockey staff after graduating Colby-Sawyer in 2024.

Murph is one of the best field hockey student-athletes in program history holding the program record in defensive saves (20), tied for the program record in assists (22), and having the fourth most points in program history (64) and sixth most goals in program history (21). She was also the first ever Charger to be named a NFHCA Division III All-Region First Team Selection. Aleah was a two-time GNAC First Team All-Conference selection and the 2022 GNAC Defensive Player of the Year.

Murph graduated Colby-Sawyer in 2024 with a degree in sociology and human services.

Lampert Assistant Coach - Courtney Lampert '18 MSES '24

Courtney Lampert enters her fifth season with the women's lacrosse program at Colby-Sawyer in 2024, while joining Emily Dewdney's field hockey staff for the first time in 2024. Lampert is a 2018 graduate of Colby-Sawyer College with a bachelor's degree in nursing. In 2024 Courtney graduated with her masters of exercise science.

Courtney was a four-year member of the women's lacrosse team and was one of the program's top defenders in history. In her career Courtney started 53 games, securing 59 ground balls and causing 31 turnovers. Lampert helped the Chargers make the NAC Championship for the first time in 2016 as well as making another appearance in 2018. Lampert was a two-time NAC All-Conference selection making the second team in 2017, before making the first team in 2018.

Upon graduating from Colby Sawyer in 2018, Courtney jumped right into coaching lacrosse in the upper valley for the Lebanon youth programs. Lampert also continues to coach at MACH 1 Lacrosse

Lampert currently resides in Sunapee, where she currently works as a registered nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock.