MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College women’s lacrosse coach Kate Livesay, a Middlebury native and a 2003 Middlebury graduate, capped off a tremendous third season guiding the Panther program by being named the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division III Pilgrim Region’s Coach of the Year.
The laurel marks the second time while at Middlebury that Livesay has earned the regional honor after also being selected following the 2016 season.
Livesay helped guide the Panthers to the NCAA Division III championship game. The Panthers finished with a 20-3 record and a NESCAC Championship. The 20 victories marked the second-highest total in the program’s history. 
Prior to returning to her alma mater, Livesay served as a graduate assistant coach for lacrosse and field hockey in 2004-2005 at Trinity College before being named the school’s head women’s lacrosse coach in the summer of 2006. From 2010 to 2014, Trinity compiled a 94-10 record, and her 2012 Bantam squad won the school’s first women’s NCAA title. In 11 seasons as a head coach, Livesay has a career mark of 185-35, including a 58-9 record in three years at Middlebury.
Livesay earned a bachelor’s degree in American civilization at Middlebury, where she was a four-year starter in field hockey and lacrosse, earning All-American status in lacrosse. She captained both of those squads during her senior year. She earned her master’s degree in history from Trinity in 2007.
While Livesay played defense for the Panthers, her lacrosse teams went 64-3 over her four seasons and won NCAA titles with perfect seasons in 2001 and 2002.
Her Middlebury Union High School teams won one field hockey and three lacrosse Division I titles.