Allison Kwolek
Head Coach
- 114-40 (.740) record in last 9 seasons at two schools
- Led Clemson to Back-to-Back Sweet 16 and ACC Semifinal Appearances
After finishing third in the ACC and coming off back-to-back ACC Semifinal appearances and Sweet 16 appearances, Allison Kwolek has turned Clemson women’s lacrosse into a national power at warp speed. And that should not be a surprise.
Kwolek has now led two different programs to top-10 national rankings in 4 of her last 6 seasons. And that is leading two programs that combine for just one top-10 ranking without Kwolek as the head coach. The U.S. National Team alum started the program at Clemson after leading Richmond to back-to-back Atlantic 10 Championships and NCAA berths, and a top-10 ranking in 2020.The Tigers started making noise in year one, earning a top-15 ranking and have the fourth-best ACC conference record over the last two seasons, winning 13 of 19 conference games.
The 2026 Tigers had five wins over ranked opponents, came just one goal short of an ACC title game appearance and advanced to their second-straight Sweet 16. Clemson finished the season 15-6 and 7-3 in ACC play. Clemson had three All-Americans in 2026, with defender Teagan Scott earning First-Team, attacker Lex Spallina named Second-Team and midfielder Emma Penczek. The Tigers led the nation in shooting percentage, ranked second in the country and assists and caused turnovers, and third in points per game. Spallina was third in the nation in assists and fifth in points, while Scott ranked fifth in caused turnovers.
Clemson has had 16 All-ACC selections over the last three seasons and Spallina was named the ACC’s Freshman of the Year. Kwolek has had the Tigers ranked in the Top 20 in all four seasons, including as high as No. 14 in their inaugural season, No. 6 in 2025 and No. 8 in 2026.
The Annandale, Va. native has a 114-40 (.740) record in her last 9 seasons as a head coach.Clemson’s rise has been driven not just by Kwolek’s developing of talent, but her recruiting. It’s no secret, she is a coach that players want to play for, not just because of how she impacts their success on the field, but because of how she cares about the person off the field.
After recruiting a top-10 class to Richmond, Kwolek has recruited four-straight top-10 classes to Clemson, including top-5 classes in three of the last four years. The 2025 class was ranked No. 1 in the nation, led by No. 1 ranked Alexa Spallina and No. 2 ranked Emma Penczek. The class of 2026 is ranked No. 4. Kwolek recruited Sam Geiersbach to Richmond, where she set the Richmond career points record as a freshman, and after transferring to North Carolina for her final year of eligibility, was the 2022 Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Championship. Kwolek’s success in the postseason continued in 2026 as she picked up two more postseason victories, giving her five in four seasons at Clemson and the 16th postseason victory of her career.
In 2025, the Tigers reached their first ACC Semifinals with a 15-7 win over NCAA Quarterfinalist and No. 9 ranked Duke, and then defeated No. 15 ranked Navy 11-8 to advance to the program’s first NCAA Sweet 16. Clemson finished the 2025 season with a 14-7 record, with four of those losses coming to Final Four teams. The Tigers had 4 top-15 wins, including 2 top-10 victories. Clemson went 6-3 in the nation’s top league, the ACC, finishing in a tie for fourth place. Clemson featured two All-Americans in 2025, Natalie Shurtleff and Summer Agostino.
In her last five seasons at Richmond, Kwolek went 64-16 (.800), 27-5 in Atlantic 10 play, won two conference tournaments and two regular-season championships. Richmond was nationally ranked in the top-10 each of her last two seasons and qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2 of her last 3 years. That doesn’t include the 2020 season, when the Spiders started 7-0 and defeated No. 6 UVa before the season was cut short due to COVID-19. Kwolek coached five Atlantic 10 Players of the Year at Richmond.
Prior to her time at Richmond, Kwolek served as an assistant at the College of William and Mary, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College, helping lead the Big Green to an Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament berth. The former Allison Evans was an All-CAA midfielder at William & Mary and defender on the US National Team. She was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Potomac Chapter in February 2015 and named to the William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020. Kwolek and her husband Mark have a daughter Olivia.
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“Allison’s created this family environment. I think it speaks to me more than any of the state-of-the-art facilities that they have at their fingertips. When they are having a bad day, a salt pod is great, but it’s even better to open your coach’s door and say ‘I’m going to cry, I need a tissue.’ It’s very likely she’s going to cry with them.” – Kristie Masaracchia, mother of senior defender Paris Masaracchia
Bill Olin
Associate Head Coach
Associate Head Coach Bill Olin is in his fifth year with the Tigers, helping lead the team to back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16s and ACC Semifinal appearances in 2025 and 2026. The Tigers finished third in the ACC and Olin’s defense ranked second in the nation in caused turnovers Olin joined Kwolek for the inaugural season of Clemson lacrosse and has helped lead Clemson to a top-25 ranking in all four seasons, including top-10 rankings in each of the past two seasons.
The Tigers were ranked as high as No. 6 in the nation in 2025, and took down 4 top-15 teams, including No. 5 Syracuse and No. 9 Duke. Clemson went 14-7 with four of those losses coming to Final Four teams.
He coached 2025 All-Americans Natalie Shurtleff and Summer Agostino, along with 16 All-ACC selections over the last three seasons.
Olin helped secure the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, which took the field for Clemson in 2026. His defense ranked 13th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing just 8.43 goals per game.
Clemson is 52-26 in Olin’s three seasons on the sideline, taking down 10 NCAA Tournament teams over the past two seasons. In Olin’s first season in Clemson, the Tigers went 12-6 and finished the year ranked in the top-25. The Tigers ranked 6th in the nation in scoring offense and 8th in the nation in assists per game in their inaugural season.. Clemson was ranked as high as No. 14 during its first season of lacrosse.
Olin came to Clemson after five years as the Associate Head Coach at Cornell. During his time at Cornell, Olin and Big Red won an Ivy league Championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
His team qualified for the Ivy League Tournament in two of his four seasons on the sidelines, and he helped develop six All-Ivy League defensive players, including 2017 conference Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-American Catie Smith.
Olin was a head coach at Capital University from 2014-16. His 2015 squad won the OAC regular season championship in just the second year of the program’s existence. The team finished with a regular season record of 14-3, including 6-0 in conference play, before finishing as league’s tournament runner-up. Prior to his tenure at Capital, he was an assistant coach at SUNY Potsdam men’s lacrosse immediately following his playing career.
As a player, he was a four-year starting goalkeeper for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, where he was a three-time ECAC Defensive Player of the Week, two-time Big East Defensive Player of the Week, and three-time All-ECAC Academic team member.
Christina Esposito
Assistant Coach
Christina Esposito enters her third season at with Clemson, coaching the offense and draw and helping the Tigers to back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16s and ACC semifinal berth in 2025 and 2026. Clemson finished third in the ACC in 2026 and ranked second in the nation in points per game and second in the nation in assists per game. The Tigers led the nation in shooting percentage.
Alexa Spallina ranked second in the nation and led the ACC in assists and fifth in the nation and second in the ACC in points.
Clemson finished 14-7, tied for fourth in the nation’s best conference, the ACC, and were ranked as high as No. 6 in the nation. Clemson posted four top-14 ranked wins, including top-10 victories over No. 5 Syracuse and No. 9 Duke.
Esposito coaches the offense and draw units for the Tigers. She coached All-American midfielder Natalie Shurtleff and mentored freshman Kira Balis to an outstanding freshmen year on the draw.
During the 2024 season with the Florida Gators, Esposito played a pivotal role in Florida’s outstanding campaign, where the Gators advanced to the NCAA semifinals with a 20-3 record. Under her guidance, Florida’s offense was one of the most prolific in the nation, scoring 405 goals (17.61 per game). Additionally, she coached a draw control unit that ranked among the top ten nationally, showcasing her ability to effectively develop offensive and midfield strategies.
Before her successful Stint at Florida, Esposito served as an assistant coach at Stony Brook, leading the Seawolves to a 15-4 record and an impeccable 7-0 run in the CAA in 2023. Her coaching career also includes being the Director and Head Coach of the Long Island Girls United Lacrosse Club and the Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at St. Dominic High School, where she guided the team to its first-ever New York State Championship. Additionally, Esposito served as the Head Coach of the Long Island Jesters 2026 Team, which ranked among the top five club teams in the country during her tenure.
A native of West Babylon, New York, Esposito’s collegiate career was equally impressive. She was a five-year letter winner for the Northwestern Wildcats, earning IWLCA Second Team All-West/Midwest Region selection, and was a member of the All-Big Ten Team and the Big Ten All-Tournament Team in her final season.
“Christina is highly regarded nationally and knows how to win at the highest level as a player and a coach. She understands our landscape extremely well, and her enthusiasm for the game is contagious,” said Head Coach Allison Kwolek.
Esposito earned her Master’s of Sport Administration in 2017 and Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies from Northwestern University.
Landyn White
Assistant Coach
Landyn White is entering her third season as an assistant coach at Clemson, having helped the Tigers to back-to-back NCAA Tournament Sweet 16s and ACC Semifinal appearance in 2025 and 2026. White coaches the goalies and helps with the Tiger defense, which ranked 13th in the nation in goals per game.
Before beginning her coaching career at Clemson, White was the Big East Goalkeeper of the year during a 5-year career at UConn.
Under White’s tutelage, freshman goalkeeper Tessa DeLuca ranked 13th in the nation in goals per game and had a career-high 11 saves against No. 1 ranked North Carolina.
In 2025, White coached All-ACC goalkeeper Emily Lamparter to the best season of her career, holding opponents to a 9.67 goals against average. Lamparter had a 46.4% save percentage, which ranked top-five in the ACC and top-25 nationally.
White was a standout player at UConn, White earned numerous accolades, including 2024 Big East Goalkeeper of the year, Inside Lacrosse All-American Honorable Mention, USA Lacrosse All-American Honorable Mention, IWLCA All-Northeast Region Second Team and Big East All-Tournament Team. As a goalkeeper, she recorded over 700 saves, with 217 coming in her fifth year, setting a single-season program record for the Huskies.
“Landyn obviously was a tremendous goalkeeper on three-straight NCAA Tournament teams at UConn, but she also has been coaching at the youth and club level throughout her collegiate career. As an Atlanta native, Ladnyn already has an understanding of what makes this place so special and will be a tremendous addition to the staff. We’re thrilled to add two women of this caliber to our staff,” said Head Coach Allison Kwolek.
The Alpharetta, Georgia native graduated from UConn in May 2024 with her Master in Business Administration and Master of Public Health. Additionally, White earned her Bachelor of Science in Applied Science from UConn in 2022.
SAM SORRELL
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Clemson alumnus Sam Sorrell is in his fifth year as the Director of Operations for the Clemson women’s lacrosse program.
A 2020 graduate of Clemson, Sorrell spent two years as a Football Operations Student Assistant, including the National Championship season of 2018. Sorrell assisted with the day-to-day operations of the Clemson football program, including scheduling and logistics. The Tigers went 29-1 while Sorrell worked with the program, the one loss coming in the 2019 National Championship game. He is the proud owner of a 2018 National Championship ring.
The Durham, N.C. native assisted with football recruiting game day operations, including junior days, prospect camps, official visits and unofficial visits. He worked with the Director of Football Operations to create the travel packets for each home and away game, and assisted with the day-to-day operations of the Dabo Swinney Football Camps.
As an undergraduate at Clemson, he also spent time as an intern in the Duke Athletic Ticket Office, and as a statistician for the Duke Sports Information Department.
Sorrell’s father Bobby, worked in the Duke Athletic Department for 30 years, including spending time as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Duke Women’s Basketball team.
Camp Staff Includes Coaches From:
Elite Summer Camps 1 & 2
College coaches confirmed as of now: Campbell, Davidson, Furman, Mercer, Rollins, Vanderbilt, Wofford