Stacey Bean
Head Coach - First Season
Laurentian '93
Email Coach: sbean@francis.edu  Stacey Bean enters her first season as head coach with momentum in getting the program to sustain success on a year-by-year basis.
The Red Flash won four matches in the Northeast Conference last year to make the conference tournament for the first time in the program’s seven-year history. Bean’s 10 years of coaching experience is littered with success, and her experience and work ethic will be pivotal in helping SFU reach a top level in the NEC.
Bean comes to Saint Francis after a one-year hiatus from coaching. She most recently served as the head coach at the University of Rhode Island from 2002 through 2006. Bean guided many of her former student-athletes to accolades in the classroom on the turf.
She oversaw the development of the first student-athlete in URI history to receive the prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship. She also had 22 National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Academic All-Americans, three NFHCA Regional All-Americans, 12 Atlantic-10 All-Stars, two A-10 All-Rookie Team honorees, an A-10 Defensive Player-of-the-Year and an A-10 Rookie-of-the-Year, in addition to numerous other academic and athletic honorees. Bean was named the 2006 A-10 Coach-of-the-Year when she guided URI to an 8-10 overall record, and a second place conference finish with a 4-3 mark. She also served as the 2002 NFHCA Senior All-Star Game head coach.
Prior to her time at Rhode Island, Bean was an assistant coach at Boston College, where she helped oversee the development of five NFHCA Regional All-Americans, one NFHCA National All-American, 10 Big East Conference All-Stars, one Big East Defensive Player-of-the-Year, one Big East Goalkeeper-of-the-Year, and one USA senior national team member in two seasons of work.
She joined the Eagles after five seasons as head coach at the University of New Brunswick, where she compiled a 65-15-7 record, and earned four Atlantic University Athletic Association Coach-of-the-Year awards (1995, ’96, ’97 and ’99). Bean was also a finalist for National Coach-Of-The-Year honors in each of those four seasons. During her tenure at UNB, she recruited and developed the first CIAU National All-Canadian honoree in the history of UNB athletics. At New Brunswick, Bean coached 18 CIAU Field Hockey all-Canadians, three national Player-of-the-Year honorees, 26 Conference All-Stars and 24 Academic All-Canadians. She also served in several other roles at New Brunswick, including Assistant Director of Campus Recreation, Academic Advisor for the faculty of Kinesiology, course instructor in Kinesiology and as an Advanced Practicum Supervisor in Kinesiology.
Bean has also remained active at other levels of field hockey. She was a regional selector for various regional USFHA National Futures Tournament Teams (2000-04), the Massachusetts Futures Elite Site head coach from 2000-02, and was an assistant coach with the Canadian Junior National Squad Identification Camps from 1996-99.
Bean earned her bachelor’s degree in physical and health education at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, graduating with honors in 1993. She played field hockey at Laurentian for four years (1989-92), and earned all-conference honors in 1992 from the Ontario Women’s Inter-University Athletic Association. She was a two-time team captain and a player-assistant coach in 1992.
Bean moved on to graduate school at New Brunswick, where she led the Varsity Reds to a conference crown and the national title match in her fifth year of eligibility in 1993. She was a CIAU Field Hockey all-Canadian and a CIAU Academic all-Canadian at New Brunswick in 1993. She became the team’s assistant coach the following season.
Bean has been a Level 3 certified field hockey coach since 1994, and graduated from the NCAA women’s coaching academy in 2005.
Kristen Healy
Assistant Coach - First Season
Maine '08
Email Coach: khealy@francis.edu  Kristen Healy comes to Loretto after a playing for the University of Maine in Orono. While at Maine, Healy was a letterwinner for the Black Bears field hockey team from 2003-2007, and was a co-captain during her senior campaign. A defensive leader, she played in 58 career games with one goal, two assists and a defensive save. She received numerous accolades including ZAG/NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad, America East Academic Honor Roll, America East Second Team, UMaine Scholar Athlete Award and the Mary Snow Scholarship, among many others. Healy received a bachelor’s degree in Child Development & Family Relations in May 2008
“I am pleased to welcome Kristen to the Saint Francis field hockey family,” said Bean, who is in her first year at the helm of the Red Flash team. “Having competed at the Division I level at the University of Maine, Kristen is fully aware of the level of commitment and sacrifice that will be required by our student-athletes. Her experience and knowledge will help us continue to build the SFU Field Hockey program.”
Prior to coming to Loretto, Healy worked as a counselor at the University of Maine summer field hockey camp and as a mentor/tutor for UMaine Academic Support. She will be in charge of on-field coaching, administrative support, and travel coordination among other duties for the Red Flash.
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