We take Pride in our coaching staff
All Venom Lacrosse coaching staff are background checked and SafeSport trained in addition to many years of playing, coaching and refereeing girls/ women's lacrosse.
Owner Team
Erica and Kelly have been working together to continue to grow and develop lacrosse in the South Central PA area since 2017, forming Venom Lacrosse in 2020.
Within the first year of operation, the program has grown from one team of 16 players to a community of over 100 players participating in travel teams, indoor teams, developmental programs and skill specific clinic programs. Many of these programs are working in conjunction with local high level college coaches and players.
Erica Winpigler
Owner/ Admin/ Coach
Kelly Altland
Owner/ Admin
Coaches
Michael Winpigler
Travel Team Coach
Coach Mike has been coaching since 2012. In that time he has coached at the U-9 to U-15 level girls both recreational and club level. He currently coaches at New Oxford High School. He is USA Lacrosse Level 3 Certified. He has been coaching competitive travel lacrosse since 2017.
Erica Winpigler
Travel Team Coach
Coach Erica helped start the New Oxford Girls Youth Lacrosse Program along with her husband Mike in 2014. That program has grown into one of the largest Girls Youth Lacrosse programs in York and Adams counties. Erica is a certified girls lacrosse Official with the York/Adams Women's Lacrosse Officials' Association. She is also a USA Lacrosse Level 2 certified coach and President of the York/Adams Girls Lacrosse Association.
John Beal
Travel Team Coach
Coach John has been coaching for several years in many different youth sports including soccer and softball and added girls lacrosse to his resume in 2018. He is currently USA Lacrosse Level 2 certified. John was also an active athlete himself playing football, soccer and baseball.
Savannah Winpigler
Travel Team Coach
Coach Savannah has been assisting coaching youth girls lacrosse since 2020. Savannah has been playing lacrosse since she was 7 years old including 6 years of competitive travel lacrosse. She was a freshman starting attacker at Misericordia University before transferring to Hood College where she started/ played in all season games. Savannah is pursuing a career in education and has been on the Deans List every year of her college career.
Sophie Mace
Travel Team Coach
Coach Sophie started out coaching with the Venom Little Fangs program. She has played lacrosse since 3rd grade for Southwestern and was elected Captain during her senior year. Sophie also played collegiate lacrosse for 3 years at Mary Washington University. She was an attacker and middie but also played defense for her club team during High School. She is very excited to get to work with the girls!!
Jen Krouse
Travel Team Coach
Coach Jen was previously the President for the Southwestern Girls Lacrosse program for many years. She has been coaching since her girls were in youth lacrosse. Jen obtained her USA Lacrosse Level 1 certification and has been coaching with Venom since the fall of 2021.
Emma Restivo
Travel Team Coach
Emma is a former Venom defender/ midfielder that has chosen to return to help the next generation of lacrosse players. Emma is a 2023 graduate of Francis Scott Key High school and plans to continue to play lacrosse at McDaniel College.
Stephanie Morgan
Travel Team Coach
Coach Steph has been coaching girls lacrosse for Venom Lacrosse since 2021. She is Level 1 USA Lacrosse certified and currently assisting with the Gettysburg High School girls lacrosse program. Steph is a former collegiate lacrosse player at University of MD- Notre Dame.
Scott Gable
Travel Team Coach
Scott has been assisting coaching lacrosse since 2021 at both the club and rec levels. He is currently USA Lacrosse Level 1 Certified.
Anna Ridlon
Travel Team Coach
Anna started playing lacrosse when she was 8 years old and has played for both rec and club level for 11 years. She has played for Venom since the program started in 2020 and has coached a team for her local rec league for 3 years. She graduated high school in 2023 from Francis Scott Key where she played lacrosse and volleyball all 4 years. She is attending Lebanon Valley College where she will continue her lacrosse career playing for the Dutchmen! She has been accepted into the Honors program at college and will be studying to become a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
She is excited for this opportunity and to stay with our Venom Family!
Becca Woods
Travel Team Coach
Coach Becca played women's lacrosse since elementary school for Warrior Lacrosse. She continued to play throughout High School and then played club lacrosse at Bloomsburg University while pursuing her Bachelors Degree. After graduating from Bloomsburg, she went on to pursue her Masters Degree at West Chester University. While at West Chester, Coach Becca coached several lacrosse teams from 3 years old to 8th grade for West Chester Lacrosse Association. Becca is now working as a Speech Language Pathologist for Southern York County School District and is excited for the opportunity to coach for Venom!
Jordyn Altland
Goalie Coach
Jordyn has been playing lacrosse since she was in 5th grade. She was a collegiate goalie for Messiah College/ Lycoming College and has been working as a goalie coach since 2017. Jordyn is also USA Lacrosse Level 1 certified and the Head Coach for the Gettysburg High School Girls Lacrosse team.
Morgan Scott
Goalie Coach
Morgan has helped coach our Little Fangs program in the summer of 2021. She also is a current collegiate goalkeeper at Millersville University and has been playing lacrosse since she was a freshman in high school. Morgan was also the starting goalie for her HS field hockey team.
She was able to hit the 100 save mark and 100 ground balls during her sophomore college season!