Molloy University Athletics

Bonagura enters her fifth season at the helm of the maroon and white headed into the 2021 season.

In her four years with the Lions, Bonagura has tallied a 13-42 record, including leading the Lions into the Northeast-10, one of the nation's top field hockey conferences, in 2019. 

At the conclusion of 2018, Bonagura had developed two players to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game in Zoe Norton and Tara Byrnes. In addition, her success on the season, turning the team around from a winless record in 2017 to a 12-7 clip in 2018, earned her the Synapse Sports Division II Coach of the Year award.

A Rockville Centre native, Bonagura has spent over a decade coaching at the collegiate level. She spent seasons as an assistant coach for the LIU Post, Molloy, and Queens College women’s lacrosse teams.
 

Career Record (2017-Pres.) 13-42 (.236)

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In 2011, she was named the head coach of the Queens program, leading the Knights to three straight winning seasons before being named Head Coach at Whittier College in California. Bonagura returned to Long Island as a member of Stony Brook University’s coaching staff. She also served two stints as an assistant coach of the Molloy women's lacrosse team.

A 2004 graduate of LIU Post, Bonagura was inducted into the Pioneers’ Hall of Fame in 2013 as an accomplished member of both the field hockey and women’s lacrosse programs, winning a National Championship in 2001.As a member of the Pioneers, she was a two-time NCAA Division II Statistical Champion in points per game and was named in Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association's Attacker of the Year in 2004. 

A four-time All-American, Bonagura was also inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2016.