Molly Devilbiss enters her second year as an assistant coach for the Frostburg State women’s lacrosse team in 2016-17.
Devilbiss helped guide the Bobcats to a 6-8 record during a season where the team faced five opponents listed in the IWLCA Top-20 national ranking. Under Devilbiss’s guidance, FSU Bobcats finished third in the Capital Athletic Conference in free position goals (13-of-41), free position percentage (31.7), and clears (89-of-136). Goalkeeper Dylan Teitelbaum finished with a second-best 83 saves in league play, and off the field, eight players were named to the Academic All-CAC team.
A four-year women’s lacrosse player at Messiah College, Devilbiss comes to Frostburg after graduating from Messiah in May with a bachelor’s of arts degree in psychology. As a two-time All-Commonwealth Conference defender, Devilbiss tallied 11 goals and nine assists while picking up 98 ground balls, winning 49 draws and causing 44 turnovers during her career. Devilbiss was named the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Conference Scholar Athlete for women’s lacrosse and was also selected to play in the IWLCA North-South Senior All-Star Game.
Devilbiss spent time as a coach for the Messiah Women’s Lacrosse Camps and Clinics during her four years of college. She also served as a member of two mission’s teams that traveled to the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica through Messiah’s sports ministry program AROMA.
In the fall of 2014, Devilbiss spent time at Highland Elementary School as a guidance counselor intern. For the past three summers, she has worked as the assistant director of the Westminster City Recreation Summer Camp.
While at Frostburg, she is her master’s degree in the school counseling program.
