Women's Lacrosse
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Emily Mitarotonda joined the Bison in September 2025. She brings four years of playing experience at East Stroudsburg University and a year of club and youth coaching experience to the Bison.
“Emily brings a great competitive spirit and tremendous playing background at East Stroudsburg University to Bucknell,” said Dando. “Her career speaks for itself and I'm excited to see how she translates that to our players on the field. Not only did she have individual success, but also team success. Her winning spirit will translate to pushing our players and creating a winning team mentality. Overall, it's the toughness and competitiveness that she brings that is what I'm excited for.”
Mitarotonda most recently served as the head coach of Garden State 2028 and was a part of the coaching staff’s at True Club Lacrosse, Garden State Elite and True National 2031. She designed and executed personalized coaching programs that enhanced performance and skill growth for both individuals and teams and led team-building activities, promoting collaboration, communication and problem-solving among participants. Mitarotondo also evaluated progress regularly, adjusting training plans to ensure continual improvement in skills and performance.
The midfielder played four years of collegiate lacrosse at East Stroudsburg University. She was a four-time All-American, All-Region First Team and All-PSAC First Team player. She was a two-time PSCAC Player of the Year and a three-time NCAA All-Tournament Team athlete. Mitarotonda finished her career as the second all-time leading scorer in DII lacrosse. She set ESU’s all-time career goals record, career points record and was named a USA Lacrosse All-America First-Team player. In four seasons as a Warrior, Mitarotonda started all 79 games and recorded 314 goals and 79 assists for a total 393 points. She also broke PSAC records in career goals and single season goals. While at ESU, they were the 2022 PSAC Champions, two-time NCAA DII Atlantic Region Champions (2022,2024) and made two NCAA Final Four appearances.
While at East Stroudsburg, Mitarotonda also served as an Athletics Operations Intern for one season and a Student Athletics Worker for two years for ESU, where she learned about more of the operations and side of being involved in college athletics.
Mitarotonda graduated with her Bachelor’s degree Sports Management with a minor in coaching from East Stroudsburg University.
