Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Women's Field Hockey

The 2025 season will mark Missy Revesz's eighth year overall at Slippery Rock University and first as The Rock field hockey program's head coach.    “Missy has been an integral part of our field hockey program for the past seven years and we are thrilled to elevate her to the head coaching role,” said SRU Director of Athletics Roberta Page. “Her passion for the sport, dedication to our student-athletes and deep understanding of our program’s culture make her the ideal leader to guide us forward.”   CAREER AT A GLANCE • Over six years of actual competition, the 2020 season was canceled due to Covid-19, SRU has won 33 games with Revesz on the sidelines. • Slippery Rock has had five All-PSAC athletes honorees during Revesz’s tenure. • Academically, Slippery Rock has produced 112 NFHCA All-Academic Squad selections, 60 NFHCA Scholars of Distinction and one CoSIDA Academic All-American – Liz Wolfe (2019) over last six seasons. • In addition to achieving the highest team GPA of any field hockey team in the PSAC in five of the last seven seasons, SRU has also led the entire nation in GPA twice (2018, 2019), second once (2020) as well as one third-place finish (2021).   COACHING TIMELINE • 2015-16: College of Wooster (assistant coach) • 2017: Oberlin College (assistant coach) • 2018-24: Slippery Rock (assistant coach)  • 2025-Present: Slippery Rock (head coach) CAREER PATH • At Oberlin College during the 2017 season. She played an instrumental role in the development of All-North Coast Athletic Conference honorees Dillon Sebastian and Amelia Huang in her lone season with the Yeowomen. • While at Wooster, she helped lead the Fighting Scots to 15 victories over two seasons, including a nine-win 2016 season. • At Wooster, Revesz mentored three National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-Great Lakes Region honorees and seven All-NCAC award recipients. Off the field, 18 Fighting Scots were named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad and four were recognized as Scholars of Distinction under Revesz’s watch.   ATHLETIC CAREER • As a player, Revesz was a four-year contributor at Kent State University, a traditional NCAA Division I mid-major field hockey power. • Revesz appeared in 74 games over her career, making 29 starts and totaling 21 career points on eight goals and five assists. • As a senior, Revesz guided the Golden Flashes to 11 wins, a Mid-American Conference title and a berth into the NCAA Tournament.   PERSONAL • Native of Milford, Pennsylvania. • Resides in Hermitage, Pennsylvania with husband Jason, a former baseball student-athlete at Kent State, and children Jack and Charlie. • Revesz received a bachelor's degree in exercise science with a minor in athletic coaching from Kent State in 2015. • Revesz also holds a USA Field Hockey level two coaching certification and has been a member of the NFHCA since 2015.   Missy Revesz Head Coaching Career Year W L Notes 2025 5 12 - Career 5 12 -  

Hopkins helped guide The Rock to a 6-12 record.  She also coached All-PSAC performer Megan McKay, who broke three program records for career scoring, single-season scoring, and single-season goals scored.   Prior to joining The Rock in the summer of 2015, Hopkins played semi-professionally overseas in 2014 and 2015 in Ireland and Australia for a number of clubs. Most recently she was in Dublin as a member of the Old Alexandra Hockey club from January-March of 2015. Before that she spent time with the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.   A native of Philadelphia, Hopkins attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass. and played four years of field hockey and two years of lacrosse for the Pioneers. She earned All-Conference honors all four years in field hockey and served as the team captain as a senior. She received her bachelors degree in history in 2012 and was a member of the Deans List each year.   Hopkins moved into the coaching realm during her undergraduate career as a coach of the U-14 and U-16 teams for the Nomads Field Hockey club in Northampton. She also served as an assistant coach with the U-19 team.   Her start in coaching blossomed after she graduated and was named the head coach of the field hockey and lacrosse programs at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, N.H., where she stayed from August 2012 through December 2013 before making the decision to continue her playing career in Australia.   While playing in Australia, Hopkins served as a coach for the Queensland University of Technology mens field hockey club team and coached the Division I squad in the University Games in Sydney in 2014. She also served as a U-11 coach for Brisbane Representative Hockey.   When Hopkins made the move to Ireland after the 2014 season, she continued her coaching career at St. Andrews College by coaching the first year, U-14 and U-18 teams.   Hopkins returned home after playing in Ireland to focus her career on collegiate coaching in the United States.  

Swiney has led the field hockey team to a success that the program had not seen in more than a decade, as she has guided The Rock to the PSAC playoffs in three of her last six seasons. Prior to 2011, SRU had not reached the PSAC playoffs since 1987. Swiney inherited a Rock program that won seven games in four total seasons before she took over. In her first season with The Rock in 2010, Swiney led Slippery Rock to a 6-14 season. The six wins were the most for Slippery Rock since 1998. Under Swineys guidance in 2011, the Green and White defeated three teams that were ranked in the NFHCA Top-10 and scored 33 goals, the sixth highest total in the programs history. Seven of SRUs losses were just one-goal defeats. The team posted its second-straight six win season in 2011 and the 2012 squad finished with eight wins, tied for the fifth most in school history. For her efforts in 2012, Swiney was named as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division Coach of the Year. The team finished with another six-win season in 2013. 2014 marked another season in which Swiney continued to advance the program as SRU tallied nine wins, the fourth highest win total in program history, while once again earning a spot in the PSAC Tournament. Swiney led The Rock to another six-win season in 2015 and In addition to coaching two All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division selections in 2010 (Gabrielle Malishchak and Erin Moran), Swiney also oversaw a team that led all of Division II with a collective 3.55 grade point average. She replicated the latter feat in her second season, as The Rock once again led the nation in team GPA in 2011. Malishchak earned her third straight All-PSAC honor and Moran was named to the NFHCA Senior All-Star game. In addition to placing 21 student-athletes on the National Academic Squad, The Rock once again led the nation in team GPA in 2013. Swiney also coached two All-PSAC performers (Lindsay Brown and Kelsey Gustafson) and landed Brown on the NFHCA All-America team. The trend of success both on and off the field continued in 2014; SRU posted the highest cumulative grade point average of any NCAA Division II field hockey team, had five NFHCA Scholars of Distinction and one All-American (Kelsey Gustafson). Swiney joined The Rock staff after serving four seasons as American International Colleges first field hockey coach. She led the Yellow Jackets to two wins in each of their first two seasons before increasing the win total to five games in 2008 and six games in 2009. Included in the 2008 win total was a 3-2 victory over No. 6 St. Michaels, the Yellow Jackets first-ever win over a nationally ranked opponent. She also served as Assistant Compliance Coordinator at American International and was a member of the NCAA Division II North Region advisory committee from 2008-10, the National Field Hockey Coaches Associations All-American Committee and the North/South All Star Committee. Prior to being named in May 2006 as head coach at AIC, Swiney served one season as an assistant coach under former Rock student-athlete and head coach Jenny Dumas at Washington & Jefferson College and two seasons as an assistant at Amherst College. Swiney was also the director of the Revolution Field Hockey Camp in Pomfret, Conn., from 2008-10; head coach of U-14 Action Sports in Greenfield, Mass., from 2006-09 and head coach for the USA Field Hockey Futures Program, Great Lakes Region, in the spring of 2005. She has worked at numerous field hockey summer camps, including camps at Amherst, Stanford and William and Mary. A 2003 graduate of The College of William and Mary, Swiney was a three-year starter in field hockey for the Tribe. She led the Tribe to a Top-20 national ranking in each of her three seasons and a pair of appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament. As a senior, Zoolkoski Swiney was named to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) All-Tournament Team and received the CAA Commissioners' Academic Award in 2002. Swiney, a native of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, earned her bachelor's degree. in marketing from William & Mary in 2003 and her master's in education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2005. Swiney is married to Allegheny College head baseball coach Kelly Swiney. The couple resides in Mercer, Pennsylvania with their two children.     Julie Swiney Head Coaching Career