Pattie Gillern - Field Hockey Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

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Pattie Gillern

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Alma Mater:
Iowa ’04
Email:
Patricia.A.Gillern@dartmouth.edu
Phone (603):
646-1046
At Dartmouth:
8th Season

Pattie Gillern will be in her eighth season on the Dartmouth sidelines in 2019. She was elevated to associate head coach prior to the 2016 campaign after four years as an assistant. In her seven seasons in Hanover, Gillern has proven to be a valuable asset to the program in both recruiting and on-field coaching.

In the summer of 2018, Gillern represented the United States in the in Spain as part of EXIN Masters World Cup in Terrassa. Gillern served as team captain and led the Americans to a fifth-place finish.

Gillern, a former All-American and All-Big Ten player at Iowa, came to Dartmouth after having spent two seasons at West Chester University in Pennsylvania where she helped lead the Rams to the 2011 Division II National Championship.

As a part of the Big Green's coaching staff, Gillern's serve as the team's recruiting coordinator, a role she also held at West Chester. Although she will work in the development and preparation of the entire team, Gillern will focus primarily on Dartmouth's attacking structure and efficiency.

As part of the staff in her first season, the Big Green posted the highest single-season Ivy League wins total in program history, going 6-1 in conference play and earning a second-place finish.

Prior to her two-year stint with the Rams, Gillern spent six years as an assistant at Rutgers from 2004-09. While with the Scarlet Knights, in addition to on-field coaching responsibilities, as she planned recruiting visits, produced correspondences with parents and alumni, as well as video operations and managed the team's travel and equipment.

Like her time at West Chester, Gillern will also oversee video editing, analysis and exchanges with Dartmouth's opponents.

No stranger to year-round dedication to the sport, Gillern has as worked at numerous field hockey camps over the last decade, including two camps at Dartmouth in that time. While in New Jersey, she was the assistant director of the Rutgers University Field Hockey Camp, a position that had her oversee marketing, finances and the everyday activities of hundreds of campers each summer.

As a player with the Hawkeyes, Gillern earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and was named a team captain as a senior in 2003.

A 2004 graduate of the University of Iowa, Gillern completed her Masters of Public Administration with a focus in Sport Management at West Chester in 2013.