Elizabethtown College Women's Field Hockey

Michael, whose teams have qualified for the postseason in each of her six previous campaigns, begins her seventh season on the Blue Jays' sideline this fall. Michael, a standout player for the Blue Jays from 1999-2002, guided her alma mater to back-to-back conference championship games in 2012 and 2013. Elizabethtown's title game appearance in 2012 was its first since 2001, when Michael was a sophomore. Elizabethtown took a step forward in its second season in the Landmark Conference. A season after falling in the conference semifinals, the Blue Jays went 6-1 in the league and secured the top overall seed in the Landmark Championships. E-town defeated Scranton on Wolf Field 2-0 to advance to its first Landmark title game. The Jays fell to Catholic as finished as the runner-up. It was the 11th straight season of 10+ wins and a postseason berth. 2014 marked the Jays' first in the Landmark Conference after decades in the Middle Atlantic Conference and Commonwealth Conference. The Blue Jays earned the No. 2 seed in the Landmark Conference Field Hockey Championship after an 11-7 season, but fell to third-seeded Juniata, 2-1, in double overtime of their semifinal matchup. Michael's teams finished with identical 14-6 records in 2012 and 2013. Following the 2013 season, one in which E-town finished with a conference-best 7-1 record and captured the Commonwealth Conference's top seed heading into the conference tournament, Michael was named Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year for the first time. In her seven seasons at the helm, Michael has coached 26 all-conference players, six all-region recipients and 2012 third team All-American Nadine Yunginger '13. Taylor Alwine '15, who played her entire career for Michael, was recognized with three all-conference first team selections, two All-Atlantic South Region honors and became the sixth player in program history to compete in the NFHCA North/South Senior All-Star game. Michael represented the College in the all-star game back in 2002. The 2012 season was one to remember, as the Blue Jays opened the season with a 2-1 win over 10th-ranked Franklin & Marshall and followed it up with big wins over traditional rival Juniata (1-0) and 13th-ranked Lynchburg (2-1). Yunginger, one of the first players to play her entire career for Michael, broke the school's single-season assists (17) and career assists (38) records. Yunginger broke a career record which stood for the better part of two decades, while the single-season mark was toppled for the first time since 1986. The Blue Jays spent seven weeks nationally-ranked in the Penn Monto/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III National Coaches Poll during the 2013 season, elevating as high as 14th on Sept. 18. Michael mentored the Blue and Gray to a 10-7 record in 2011, with four of the team's defeats coming by one goal and three to nationally-ranked opponents (two in overtime). Michaels first year in charge was a success. The Blue Jays went 11-7 and reached the conference tournament. As a rookie head coach, Michael built on the programs previous successes by leading Elizabethtown to its fifth straight season of 10 wins or more. While the team prospered as a whole under Michael in 2009, four players were able to earn All-Commonwealth Conference honors, including First Team selections Julie Foster '11 and Caitlin Smith '10. Foster and Linsey Fasold '11 both earned First Team recognition in 2010. The former Brandy Espenshade, Michael is a 2004 graduate of Elizabethtown. She served as an assistant coach for three seasons under Sharon Sweger and was an All-Commonwealth Conference and All-South Atlantic Region performer as a member of the Blue Jays. Michael was the team's leading goal scorer, with 14, as a senior in 2002 and received second team all-region accolades. While assisting Sweger in 2008, Elizabethtown finished 13th in the final NFHCA Division III Coaches Poll. For her career, Michael compiled 32 goals and 13 assists for 77 points. The Blue Jays advanced to the league playoffs in each of her final three seasons, including the Commonwealth Conference title game in 2001. She was a four-year letterwinner, team captain and voted the team's Most Valuable Player as a senior. As a scholastic student-athlete at Lower Dauphin High School, Michael was a member of the Falcons' 1998 state championship team. In addition to her coaching experience at Elizabethtown, Michael was a head coach in the US Field Hockey Association Futures program and served as an assistant coach at Northern York High School. Brandy Michael Coaching Record

Voigt was a four-year member of the field hockey team at Messiah College from 2007-10 and set career-highs of five goals, two assists and 12 points as a sophomore. The State College native was a member of Falcon teams that won Commonwealth Conference Championships in each of her four seasons. Messiah finished as the naitonal runner-up in 2009 and 2010, her junior and senior seasons. Voigt, who is a graduate of State College Area High School, was a Tri-Valley First Team All-Star as a senior and a two-time Mountain League First Team All-Star. She earned her bachelor's degree in health and exercise science from Messiah in 2011.