University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Colleen Fink was named head coach of the University of Pennsylvania's field hockey program in April of 2010 and spent 15 seasons at the helm. Her tenure sparked a resurgence in the Quakers program, placing them among the Ivy League's top programs.

Penn finished above .500 seven times under Fink including 13-win campaigns in both 2013 and 2015, a feat previously accomplished just twice in the first 40 years of the program's history as a varsity program (1973-2012). Those same two seasons, the Quakers entered their final regular-season game at Ellen Vagelos Field playing for a share of the Ivy League title and the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Championship. Fink had a 113-122 overall record and went 52-46 in Ivy League play.

Penn did not have a first-team All-Ivy player from 2008-12; in the 11 seasons since then the Quakers had 13. In addition, Penn had the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2013 (Jasmine Cole) and 2014 (Alexa Hoover), and in both cases they were named first-team All-Ivy as freshmen, the first two times that happened in program history.

Hoover earned NFHCA All-America as both a sophomore and junior, becoming the program's first All-America since 2003, just its third since 1989, and just the third player in Penn history to be a multi All-America selection. At the NFHCA All-Region level, Penn had no players recognized from 2008-12 but has had 14 in the last eight seasons including seven first-team selections. Hoover also became the program's first four-time First Team All-Ivy selection and just the fourth in Ivy League history. In 2019, Alexa Schneck joined Hoover as one of three Penn players to receive an All-Ivy nod in each of their four years with the program. 

Hoover, Schneck, Elise Tilton, Elizabeth Hitti, Emily Corcoran and Allison Kuzyk all participated in the NFHCA Senior All-Star Game during the NCAA's championship weekend from 2014-23. Prior to that stretch, Penn had not been represented at the event since 2004.

Coach Fink installed a fast-paced, high-pressure approach all over the field; the result was an exciting brand of hockey that created an offensive juggernaut. The Quakers tied the program record of 42 goals in 2012 -- a record originally set by the 1988 team, an NCAA Championship semifinalist -- and then shattered the mark in 2013 with 57 goals, finishing sixth nationally in goals per game. In 2015, Penn scored 54 goals and ended the season eighth nationally in goals per game. Additionally, with an annual stacked schedule, she entered the NFHCA Top 25 ranking in 2022 following a 2-0 victory over No. 24 Temple.

Individually, Hitti finished the 2015 season as the national leader in assists per game, while Hoover was second nationally in both goals and points per game. Cole finished the 2013 season second nationally in goals per game and fifth in points per game, while Corcoran was 14th nationally in points per game.

Penn made the inaugural Ivy League Tournament in 2023, playing as the fourth seed after tying for second place with Cornell (2 seed) and Princeton (3 seed). That same season, the Quakers defeated the Tigers, 3-2, in overtime for their first win over Princeton since 2004 and just their second since 1993.

Fink came to Penn from Haverford College, where she spent the four seasons as the head coach. During her tenure, the Fords improved each year, culminating in 2009 when they made their first-ever playoff appearance and gained their first playoff win in the Centennial Conference. (Haverford finished 10th in the Centennial the year before Fink's arrival; in 2009, the Fords finished fourth)

When Haverford went 9-9 in 2008, it marked the program's first season with an overall record of .500 or better since 1991; the Fords then went 6-4 in the Centennial last year en route to their playoff bid. Fink also recruited and coached the only player in program history to earn first-team all-region honors from the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) -- sophomore Roxanne Jaffe.

Prior to her stint at Haverford, Fink spent two seasons as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Saint Joseph's University, where she helped head coach Michelle Finegan lead the program to back-to-back seasons of double-digit wins for the first time in 10 years (11-8 in 2004, 10-10 in 2005). In Fink's second season at Hawk Hill, SJU defeated a nationally ranked opponent for the first time since 1998 when the Hawks beat No. 19 Delaware, 2-1.

Since 2005, Fink has been involved in the Viper Field Hockey club program based in Downingtown. As a club manager and coach, she led Viper's under-19 team to a gold medal at the National Festival, and she qualified under-19 and under-16 teams to the National Indoor Tournament. Fink also owns CQ Sports, which encourages and promotes the continuation of field hockey at the college level with the Field Hockey College Quest.

Fink also coached field hockey for three years at Archbishop Carroll High School, leading that program to a pair of undefeated seasons and Philadelphia Catholic League title in 2001 and 2003; Carroll also reached the league's title game in each of her three seasons.

Fink played her college field hockey at Saint Joseph's, and was captain of the Hawks' 1999 squad. She graduated in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in marketing.

Fink lives in Wynnewood, Pa. with her husband Mark and their two sons, Beau and Toby.
 

YEAR	OVERALL RECORD	IVY RECORD	IVY FINISH
2010	3-14	1-6	T-7th
2011	4-13	2-5	6th
2012	9-8	3-4	T-4th
2013	13-4	5-2	2nd
2014	8-9	3-4	T-5th
2015	13-3	5-2	T-2nd
2016	11-6	4-3	T-3rd
2017	9-8	4-3	T-3rd
2018	9-8	5-2	3rd
2019	7-10	4-3	T-3rd
2020	N/A (COVID-19
2021	9-7	5-2	3rd
2022	7-10	4-3	T-3rd
2023	7-10	5-2	T-2nd
2024	4-12	2-5	7th
CAREER	113-122	52-46