The Patriot Athletic Department would like to welcome new head field hockey coach Emily Ritonia and assistant field hockey coach Jessica Balsano to the coaching staff.  Coach Ritonia brings a wealth of field hockey knowledge and game experience to Patriot.  Emily is a local product and played prep field hockey and lacrosse at Middleburg Academy, formerly Notre Dame Academy.  She was All-Conference and All-Met in field hockey during that time.  She graduated from Virginia Tech and also received her Master's Degree in Secondary Education from St. John's University.  She was the head girls’ lacrosse coach at James Madison High School in New York this past season.  She will be a member of the Language Arts Department at Patriot as well as an assistant girls' lacrosse coach.  Coach Ritonia will be moving to the area this summer and is excited to start working with the student-athletes at Patriot.  Coach Ritonia will also be joined by Jessica Balsano from Bridgewater College where she played varsity field hockey and also coached JV softball at Spotswood High School during her student teaching.  Coach Balsano will also teach in the Language Arts Department at Patriot next year.  We are extremely happy to have Coach Ritonia and Coach Balsano join the coaching staff at Patriot.

We plan to have an interest meeting with Coach Ritonia on June 27th 9:00am at Patriot.  Please check back for more details about the interest meeting and summer workouts.