St. Bonaventure University Women's Lacrosse

Mike Smiechowski was named head men's and women's swimming and diving coach in July 2022 and enters his fourth season at St. Bonaventure in 2025-26. He has led the Bonnies men's team back to the top of the Atlantic 10 as Bona's placed second at the 2025 A-10 Championships, the highest finish for the program since 2016. Under his leadership, the program has earned four CSCAA Scholar All-America selections as well as five Atlantic 10 All-Academic picks. On the women's side, nine program records have been established during his tenure. Both teams have been crowned with CSCAA Team Scholar All-America honors in each of the past three years.  Smiechowski joined the Bonnies after three seasons at the helm of the Alfred State men's and women's swimming programs. During his time at Alfred State, Smiechowski guided the Pioneers to their first three Alleghany Mountain Collegiate Conference Championships in program history. Alfred State captured the 2022 AMCC/Empire 8 Men's Championship, 2022 AMCC Men's Championship and 2020 AMCC Women's Champions. Smiechowski has earned multiple Coach of the Year honors, including 2022 Men's AMCC Coach of the Year, 2022 AMCC/E8 Combined Coach of the Year and the 2020 Men's and Women's AMCC Coach of the Year. He helped his student-athletes to 32 individual AMCC Championships and 10 AMCC/E8 Championships while at Alfred State. In 2021-22, he led the Alfred Sate to the school's first-ever undefeated regular season with a record of 7-0. He touted a combined 26-11 dual meet record during his tenure. Smiechowski's teams were also successful in the classroom. The women's team earned College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Academic All-American honors in 2020 and 2022 while the men's team received the accolades in 2020. Prior to his time at Alfred State, Smiechowski served as head coach of the Saint Martin National Swim Team and was the Director of Operations at the Carib Swim Club in 2018-19. He trained the first ever Saint Martin athlete to participate in the 2018 World Championships in Hangzhou, China. Smiechowski also spent time as the head afe group coach at the Coral Springs Swim Club in 2016-17. He also has previous Division I coaching experience including stints as assistant coach and men's recruiting coordinator at Towson (2014-15) and Villanova (2013-14). Smiechowski earned a bachelor's degree in criminology from UNC Wilmington in 2012, helping the Seahawks to four consecutive Colonial Athletic Association championships as a student-athlete and served as the team captain. He went on to earn a master's degree in higher education from Iowa State in 2013.

Alejandra Fuentes joined the St. Bonaventure Athletics staff in August 2024 as head diving coach for the Bonnies men's and women's squads. Fuentes was named the 2026 Atlantic 10 Women's Diving Coach of the Year after guiding sophomore Dhavgely Mendoza who captured gold on both the 1 and 3-meter boards to become just the third A-10 Women's Most Outstanding Diver award winner in program history. On the men's side, Ben O'Neill earned silver in the 1-meter dive at the 2026 Atlantic 10 Championships. Mendoza owns the school records on both boards while O'Neill set a new 1-meter men's record in 2026. In her first season on staff, Bonnies divers achieved success as both O'Neill and Mendoza qualified for NCAA Diving Zones. Mendoza won silver in the 1-meter at Atlantic 10 Championships and O'Neill captured silver in the 1-meter at the conference meet as well.  Fuentes brought Olympic diving and 18 years of coaching experience to St. Bonaventure. During her diving career, she competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, representing her native Venezuela. She placed third at both the Rome Grand Prix and Madrid Grand Prix in 2006 while also taking fifth in the 2005 World Championships in Montreal. In her coaching career, Fuentes served as the Venezuelan National Team assistant diving coach for seven years before moving to Seattle where she most recently has worked as the Alpha Diving Club head coach where she has prepared her team for AAU and USA Diving National competition. She also has worked as a high school diving coach in Washington state. She is a certified international diving coach and safety training certified by USA Diving.  

Bob Macfarlane enters his 15th year in charge of both the men’s and women’s running programs in 2025, and during that time the St. Bonaventure graduate has made vast improvements to both squads. Since his return to St. Bonaventure in 2010, both teams have enjoyed successful seasons and continue to improve year after year.  Nine of the Bonnies' top-10 all-time women's individual 5K cross country times have been turned in since Macfarlane took over the program while all of the women's top-10 6K marks have come under his watch. On the men's side, all of the program's top-10 5K and nine of the top-10 8K times have been set during his tenure. A total of nine Bonnies achieved PRs at the 2023 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Track Championships on the men's team while on the women's side, the Bonnies set six program records and 19 student-athletes re-wrote the school's individual top-10s a total of 29 times in nine separate events during the 2023 indoor campaign. During his time at the helm of the program, Macfarlane has coached two-time All-Conference runner Kerry Caher and guided the women's team to their first-ever Little Three Invitational championship in school history. He also led the women's team to a top-10 finish at the Paul Short Invitational which was the best finish in program history.  Macfarlane has grown the program not only in success but in number as well - he took over a pair of teams that had nine combined runners on the men's and women's teams, but over 40 runners have made up the program each season following the addition of men's and women's track teams in 2016. In 2019, Bona's men's cross country team earned victory in Erie's Race in the Park while freshman Logan Caruso became the program's first student-athlete to take multiple Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors in the same season. Following the shortened 2020-21 season, sophomore Darion Gregory earned a spot on the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team for his efforts in competition and the classroom. During the 2021-22 season, Gregory was named Academic All-District while freshman Clay Peets set a program record by being named Atlantic 10 Cross Country Rookie of the Week three times. Gregory finished his career with A-10 All-Academic honors in 2022-23 for cross country, indoor and outdoor track, becoming the first athlete in program history to do so, while Peets was named an A-10 Performer of the Week in cross country.  Academically, the Bonnies have enjoyed a wealth of success during MacFarlane's tenure. The men's cross country team was honored by the NCAA in Spring 2016 after ranking in the top 10 percent of the nation in Academic Progress Rate (APR) for the previous year. In Spring 2017, the NCAA honored the women's cross country program for ranking in the top 10 percent of the nation in APR. The women's team took the NCAA APR honors again in Spring 2019. In 2023, Bonnies men's cross country owned a 997 APR, tied for the best on campus. Since 2012, Bonnies men's cross country has recorded a score of 994 or better all but one year, including three perfect scores. In 2017, MacFarlane guided the rebirth of the men's and women's track programs as the Bonnies officially competed in track for the first time since 1990. The Bonnies added indoor track to their program in 2020.   Before joining SBU in the summer of 2010, MacFarlane served as the head varsity girls cross country coach at the Bradford Area School District for seven years.  There he led the cross country team to a 66-4 dual meet record as well as five Pennsylvania District IX AAA titles and coached four individual district champions. MacFarlane coached five state qualifying teams and one state medalist. MacFarlane served as the Bradford Area head girls track and field coach in 2008-09, but was the assistant coach for the girls’ team for 13 years prior. During his time at Bradford, he assisted the team to eight Pennsylvania District IX AAA Championships including a Pennsylvania State title in 1996. MacFarlane was also the distance coach for the Bradford Indoor Track and Field team for eight years. In 2003-04, MacFarlane had the chance to be the head coach for Team New York/Pennsylvania when they traveled to Australia for international meets. Under his direction, the 2003 team won the international title. MacFarlane is retired from the Bradford (Pa.) School District after teaching social studies for 34 years. He also retired from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford after 10 years in which he taught world regional geography and methods of social studies teaching. MacFarlane took an early retirement from both positions to concentrate on his coaching duties at St. Bonaventure. He graduated with a bachelor’s in elementary and secondary education with a concentration in history from St. Bonaventure in 1977 and also received his master’s of education from St. Bonaventure. MacFarlane’s daughter, Heather, resides in New York City and his son, Kyle, lives in Los Angeles.

LeighAnn Stauffer, '17, returned to her alma mater when she was named St. Bonaventure's women's lacrosse head coach on June 28, 2022. Stauffer enters her fourth year at the helm for the 2026 season.  Stauffer has led a resurgence in Bonnies lacrosse during her tenure, leading the program into the upper echelon of the Atlantic 10. In her first three seasons as head coach, Stauffer guided the program to a pair of A-10 Tournament appearances while the Bonnies earned 11 All-Conference and 16 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selections.  St. Bonaventure tallied its first 10-win season since 2006, finishing the 2025 campaign with a 10-8 record including a 6-4 mark in Atlantic 10 play. Bona's set the all-time program record for goals in a season (239) with over 13 scores per contest. SBU also established a new school record for Atlantic 10 victories in a single season.    In 2023, Stauffer led the team back to the Atlantic 10 Tournament for the first time since 2007. Her debut season also included the program's first conference win since 2017.   Stauffer’s historic efforts led to her being named the Atlantic 10 Co-Coach of the Year, the first for the program in 20 years.   An Atlantic 10 All-Conference performer as a student-athlete at St. Bonaventure, Stauffer brings previous coaching experience both at the head coach level as well as within the Atlantic 10 Conference. Stauffer returned to St. Bonaventure after spending the 2021 and 2022 seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at fellow A-10 member George Washington. While at GW, Stauffer served as the Colonials offensive coordinator, helping the team to a 6-6 record in her first season with the program followed by a spot in the Atlantic 10 Tournament in 2022. She spearheaded the team’s recruiting and led the program’s alumni relations as well as aided fundraising efforts. During her time in Foggy Bottom, the Colonials had two Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team selections. Prior to her stint in the nation’s capital, she gained head coaching experience at the Division II level with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, guiding the Fighting Scots program for two seasons. She was promoted to the head coach position after first arriving in Edinboro as a graduate assistant coach for the 2018 campaign. A native of Rochester, she also served as head coach with Pride Girls Lacrosse Club and Rochester Elite Lacrosse Club while also working as an official for the Rochester Board of Women’s Lacrosse Officials. Stauffer played for the Bonnies from 2013-17. During her collegiate career, she was a two-time All-Atlantic 10 honoree and she ranks top-15 all-time in program history for total goals with 95 as well as top-20 in total points at 115. Her 135 career draw controls also rank top-10 in program history. She captured all-conference accolades for the first time as a sophomore in 2014, scoring a team-high 32 goals with a team-best 51 draw controls and 26 groundballs. She repeated as an All-Atlantic 10 performer in her junior season with team-highs in goals (30) and draw controls (58), a mark that stands second in SBU single-season history. Injuries limited her final two seasons including 2016, when she scored six goals in four games, but she returned for a redshirt campaign in 2017 and posted 16 goals and 24 points along with 25 draw controls in nine games. When she graduated in 2017, Stauffer was honored with the department’s female Letterwinner Award, presented every year to one senior male and female student-athlete who has assembled outstanding records of athletic accomplishments over their careers. Stauffer earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology with a minor in criminology from St. Bonaventure. She went on to earn a Master’s of Education from Edinboro in 2019.  

Kirsten Parker joined the St. Bonaventure University women's lacrosse program in July 2023 and is in her second season with the program. Parker joined the Bonnies from Kentucky where she was both a student-athlete and began her coaching career. Most recently, Parker served as varsity head coach at Mercy Academy where she led the program to its first winning season since 2008 and first state tournament appearance since 2018. Her work earned her the 2023 Coach of the Year award from the Kentucky Scholastic Lacrosse League. Prior to taking the head coaching reins at Mercy, she was assistant club director for Cardinal Elite Lacrosse Club and assistant coach for Maryland United Lacrosse Club, working with young athletes ages 10-18. Parker played four seasons at the Division I level for Louisville where she appeared in 48 career games before graduating in 2022. A midfielder for the Cardinals, she logged a career-high 18 games including four starts as a freshman and concluded her career with 14 games played as a senior when she was also a team captain for the squad. A Maryland native, she was a three-year letterwinner at Elizabeth Seton High School and was named team captain of her lacrosse squad while earning all-conference honorable mention accolades.  

Amanda Monahan is in her first season with the Bonnies women's lacrosse program where she works with the defensive unit and goalkeeepers. Monahan joins the Bonnies staff after working most recently at Xavier in 2024-25 where she guided the Musketeers goalies. She worked on the coaching staff at Furman during the 2023-24 academic year, helping three of their players earn First Team All-Conference honors as well as coached a Co-Defensive Player of the Year honoree. A native of Marblehead, Mass., she played collegiately at Davidson where she was an All-Atlantic 10 First Team pick in net twice. She also earned a spot on the 2023 USA Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America honorable mention lists and was picked to the A-10 All-Tournament Team while ranking third nationally among all goalies for save percentage while with the Wildcats. In 2022, she was key to helping Davidson to its most wins in program history (13) and also was in the cage for the Wildcats’ first-ever win over a nationally-ranked program when she picked up the victory with 15 saves vs. No. 16 Virginia Tech in 2021. She finished her career fourth all-time in Davidson history with 452 saves and compiled 34 victories. She got her start in the coaching ranks giving private lessons in her hometown while as an undergrad, and also served as a camp coach at Davidson. A Class of 2023 graduate, she earned her bachelor's degree from Davidson in communications as a member of the Atlantic 10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

Mikaela Snayczuk is in her first season as an assistant for the St. Bonaventure men's and women's swimming and diving coaching staff. She previously served as an assistant coach for  Alfred State swim and dive during the 2024-25 academic year where she was part of the Coaching Staff of the Year in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. During the season, Alfred State's women's team broke 13 school records, seven open conference records and six conference championship meet marks.  As a student-athlete at Alfred State, she was part of the program for five years including serving as a team captain for four seasons.  Snayczuk was part of Alfred State's first-ever AMCC conference championship in 2020, repeating as champs in 2023.  She graduated as the program's record-holder for the 100-breaststroke and 200-IM.   

Matt Walter joined the Bonnies running program coaching staff in the Summer of 2025 and is in his first year with the teams. Walter's focus will be on Bona's sprinters and hurdlers as the program continues to expand in those events for both indoor and outdoor track. He was a collegiate track student-athlete at Lock Haven University where he was a two-time member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference All-Academic Team. Following graduation, the Bradford, Pa. native returned to the area as athletic director for Johnsonburg (Pa.) Area School District, overseeing the operation of seven junior high programs and 12 high school teams. He also has over a decade of experience in the business sector working with area banks.