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Coaching Staff


Ellen Howe – Head Coach


Fifth Season


Ellen Howe begins her fifth season overall and fourth full season as the Siena water polo head coach in 2011. Howe enters the season with a 34-69 career record after being elevated to the head coaching position on April 5, 2007. She has led the Saints to


their first two ever MAAC Tournament appearances during her first three full seasons. Howe previously served for two seasons as the team’s assistant coach.


Last season Howe led the Saints to their second ever MAAC Tournament appear- ance. She won a personal-best 12 games during the season and for a second straight year, mentored a MAAC First Team selection in Camille Norman who broke the single-season program record with 84 goals.


In 2009, Howe led the Saints to a 10-17 campaign and fifth-place finish in the MAAC at 3-7. Additionally, Howe mentored MAAC Offensive Player of the Year Lauren Garrigan, who finished the 2009 season with a then-program-record 83 goals.


After posting a 1-9 record, filling out the remainder of the 2007 season, Howe took the program to new heights in 2008. The Saints finished 11-20 overall and qualified for the MAAC Tournament for the first time in program history. For her efforts, Howe was named the 2008 Anaconda Sports MAAC Coach of the Year.


During her assistant coaching tenure, Howe helped guide the Saints through a new era for the program which saw the


team compete against three ranked teams and amass the deepest schedule in school history. Prior to her appointment as head coach, Howe served as an integral part to the Saints 2007 record setting team which posted the most successful start in program history at 11-5.


Prior to her stint in Loudonville, Howe embarked on her coaching career in 2003 while working with age-group athletes through the Greater Philly Water Polo Club. In 2004 she served as the head coach at Friends Central High School in Philadelphia and has also coached at several water polo camps across the country.


Howe also established a brilliant water polo playing career of her own both in high school and collegiately at Villanova. During her playing career at Villanova, Howe


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