Staff
Emily Heller
High School:
West Babylon 2019
College:
University of Florida
- High School All American 2019
- Invited to try-out for U.S. Under-19 women’s lacrosse team
- Named a “On the Rise” recruit by ILWomen
- Selected as one of Newsday’s Top 100 girls lacrosse players for 2018
- Finished the 2018 season with 31 goals and seven assists
- Played for West Babylon High School
- Played club for LI Top Guns
- Started in all 2020 games as a Freshman Midfielder at the University of Florida where she has logged 7 goals and 3 assists in 8 games.
Paula Schmidt
Career:
Special Education Teacher at West Babylon Middle School
Coach:
- West Babylon Middle School Field Hockey
- West Babylon High School JV Basketball Coach
- West Babylon High School JV Lacrosse Coach
University of North Carolina
Four Year Member of the University of North Carolina Women's Lacrosse Team
High School:
Wantagh High School
- High School 2x All American
- Played on the Senior 2011 Under Armour All-America game,
- Tallied 59 goals, 39 assists and 45 ground balls as a senior at Wantagh HS in Wantagh, N.Y.
Hannah Heller
High School:
West Babylon 2019
College:
University of Massachusetts
- Named Second-Team All-America in 2019
- Played on the Under Armour All-America Senior Game 2019
- Selected to the 2019 U19 USA Training Team ‘
- Scored 29 goals and added 23 assists as a senior
- Finished career with 126 goals and 45 assists
- Wow the High School State Championship title in the 4x4 relay in 2017
Mikaela Brightman
Hi my name is Mikaela Brightman and I am from Bay Shore, New York. I started playing lacrosse in 5th grade and I continued to play throughout middle school, high school, and college. I played summer league for Long Island Top Guns as well as Premier Lacrosse. I committed to LIU Post where I went on to play for two and half years. During my two seasons as a pioneer, we won the ECC Division II Conference Championship in 2015 and 2016.
Andrea Fernecsik
ABOUT ME
Hi my name is Andrea Ferencsik and I'm from Holbrook, NY. I first started playing lacrosse in 7th grade and went on to play in high school at Sachem North where I spent 3 years on varsity earning captain as well as all county. During high school I played travel lacrosse for Long Island Yellow Jackets. Soon after I committed to LIU Post where I went on to play for two years becoming a part of the division two semifinal team as well as winning an ECC championship. Following LIU, I began coaching with Doc's NYC lacrosse.
2015
- Played in 15 games
- scored her first career goal in 20-2 victory over UDC (Apr. 10)
- added an assist in 18-1 lashing of Queens (N.Y.) on Apr. 26
- scooped up five total ground balls on the season, including three against the Knights.
2014
Red-shirted the season.
Prior to LIU Post
- Went to Sachem North High School
- played three seasons of varsity lacrosse.
Personal
- Has one brother, Danny
- daughter of Joe and Theresa Ferencsik
- majoring in physical and health education.
Emma Lemanski
Playing Career
- senior goalie from Wantagh
- a starter since freshman year
- Goals against average ranked second in NE10 and save % ranked seventh for 2019 season
- ECAC Goalkeeper of the Month – April 2019
- 2019 national championship
Honors and Awards
- NE10 All-Rookie Team (2018)
- NE10 Academic Honor Roll – Academic Distinction (Fall ’18, Spring ’19, Spring ’20)
- NE10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall ’17, Spring ’18)
- NE10 Academic Honor Roll – Academic Honors (Fall ’19)
- D2ADA Academic Achievement Award (2019-20)
Leigh-Ann Zimmer
Coach
- Massapequa High School Varsity girl’s lacrosse coach (2005-2019)
- 4X Nassau County Champions
- Coached and developed numerous HS All-Americans
- Physical Education teacher at Massapequa HS for over 15 years
College: Syracuse University
- 2X IWLCA All-American
- 2004 Big East Attacker of the Year
- 4X IWLCA Division 1 North Region All-America First Team
- 4X All-Big East Selection
- 2X Tewaaraton Top 20 Candidate
Megan Zimmer
Postseason honors candidate 2001
Named to the America East Academic Honor Roll 2000
1999
High School
Personal
STATS
| Year | GP | G | A | Pts. | GB |
| 1999 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| 2000 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 48 |
| 2001 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 24 | 38 |
Chris Kalinoglu
COACH
- Current Long Beach PAL Lacrosse coach for the 2030 Girls team
- Coached Old Westbury Academy Middle School Boys Lacrosse and Basketball 1996 – 2010…Goalie trainer until 2015
- Coached at 1on1 Lacrosse Camp/Clinic(Old Westbury Academy) 1999 – 2015
PLAYED
- 3 years of varsity at Hicksville High School
- 2 years at SUNY Farmingdale under IMLCA Hall of Fame coach Fred Acee
- 2 years at Alfred University compiling a 25-6 record serving as a Captain
- 1993 EAA/ICAC First Team
- 1993 USILA North-South All Star Game Participant
- NCAA Playoff Participant
- 2 years Town of Oyster Bay Club Lacrosse Club
PERSONAL
- Originally from Hicksville, currently resides in Island Park
- US Lacrosse Certified
- Supported by wife Nicole and daughters Isabella (2029,) and Tessa (2030)
Kayla Downey
I am from Babylon, New York and I attended West Babylon High School. I began playing lacrosse when I was in second grade for the youth program in West Babylon. I haven't put my stick down since then. I was a five year varsity starter at West Babylon where I was named captain and earned 3X All County, along with being named All American in my Senior year. During the summer I played for LI Top Guns for eight years. I decided to continue my lacrosse career at Stony Brook University where I am currently a freshman on the team.