Tanner Ridgely - Field Hockey Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

Tanner Ridgely

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
tanner.l.ridgely@dartmouth.edu
Phone:
contact via email

Tanner Ridgely begins her second season on the Dartmouth sidelines in 2023.

Ridgely came to Hanover from Towson after spending the 2021-22 academic year as volunteer assistant coach. During the 2021 season, she helped the Tigers to four wins, their most since 2011. The wins came over La Salle (1-0), LIU (1-0), William & Mary (2-1 in overtime) and Davidson (4-3 in a shootout).

Early in Ridgely’s time at Dartmouth, the Big Green picked up three straight victories from Sept. 9 to Sept. 18 — marking the program’s longest winning streak since 2017. It was the first time the Big Green won three straight in regulation since 2013. Dartmouth began the streak by beating Northeastern, 4-3, for the Big Green’s first win over the Huskies since 1987. The other wins came against Sacred Heart (4-2) and Merrimack (2-1).

Dartmouth lost each of its last five Ivy League games by a single goal — which included a 1-0 defeat at No. 8 Princeton and 3-2 loss vs. No. 15 Harvard — as the Big Green are inching closer to breaking through.

Ridgely works with the goalkeepers and in the Princeton game, senior goalie Hatley Post made 19 saves, which was tops in the nation at the time, earning her Ivy League Goalkeeper of the Week and national recognition. She was just the second Ivy League goalkeeper to stop 19 or more in 13 seasons. Post had a third-quarter sequence that earned No. 10 on ESPN SportsCenter’s Plays of the Day.

Post, along with classmate Holley Cromwell earned Ivy League weekly awards in 2022, with Cromwell garnering Offensive Player of the Week following the weekend sweep of Northeastern and Sacred Heart. It was the first time since 2012 that two Big Green student-athletes received a weekly award during the same season.

At the end of the year, Cromwell and junior Bronwyn Bird were named second team All-Ivy while Post and freshman Olivia Galiotos garnered honorable mention laurels. The four recognized were the most for the Big Green since 2011. Bird was also named NFHCA second team All-Region.

Dartmouth made major strides offensively, scoring a goal in each of its first seven games of the season, its longest streak to begin a year since 2015. The Big Green also scored 4+ goals in back-to-back games vs. Northeastern and Sacred Heart, marking the first time they’ve done that since September of 2017. Against reigning Final Four qualifier Harvard, Dartmouth scored twice, this against a Harvard team which entered the day second nationally in goals against average (0.79). Dartmouth would fight until the very end in 2022, scoring the equalizer with just 3:01 remaining in regulation to force overtime in the season finale against Penn.

Defensively, the Big Green allowed just over two goals per game in Ivy League play. Allowing only 16 in total, that was eight fewer than any other year since 2015.

Ridgely graduated with a bachelor's degree in sport and recreation management with a minor in general business from James Madison University in 2021. While at James Madison, Ridgely spent three seasons on the field hockey team after transferring from Stevenson. She has also been a head coach for the Warhawks Field Hockey Club since November 2020.