St. Bonaventure

LeighAnn Stauffer, '17, returned to her alma mater when she was named St. Bonaventure's women's lacrosse head coach on June 28, 2022. Stauffer enters her fifth year at the helm for the 2027 season. 

Stauffer has led a resurgence in Bonnies lacrosse during her tenure, directing the program into the upper echelon of the Atlantic 10. In her first four seasons as head coach, Stauffer has guided the program to three A-10 Tournament appearances while the Bonnies have earned 17 All-Conference and 22 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selections. 

Bona's has tallied back-to-back 10-win campaigns and scored the first A-10 Tournament victory in program history as part of an 11-win season in 2026. A program record six players earned All-Conference accolades, highlighted by senior Brooke Piper who was named the A-10 Midfielder of the Year and classmate Brit Colangelo who was honored as A-10 Defensive Player of the Year. 

St. Bonaventure tallied its first 10-win season since 2006 by finishing the 2025 campaign with a 10-8 record including a 6-4 mark in Atlantic 10 play. The Bonnies set their all-time program record for goals in a season (239) with over 13 scores per contest. SBU also established a new school record for Atlantic 10 victories in a single season. 
 
In 2023, Stauffer led the team back to the Atlantic 10 Tournament for the first time since 2007. Her debut season also included the program's first conference win since 2017.
 
Stauffer’s historic efforts led to her being named the Atlantic 10 Co-Coach of the Year, the first for the program in 20 years.
 
An Atlantic 10 All-Conference performer as a student-athlete at St. Bonaventure, Stauffer brings previous coaching experience both at the head coach level as well as within the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Stauffer returned to St. Bonaventure after spending the 2021 and 2022 seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at fellow A-10 member George Washington.

While at GW, Stauffer served as the Colonials offensive coordinator, helping the team to a 6-6 record in her first season with the program followed by a spot in the Atlantic 10 Tournament in 2022. She spearheaded the team’s recruiting and led the program’s alumni relations as well as aided fundraising efforts. During her time in Foggy Bottom, the Colonials had two Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team selections.

Prior to her stint in the nation’s capital, she gained head coaching experience at the Division II level with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, guiding the Fighting Scots program for two seasons. She was promoted to the head coach position after first arriving in Edinboro as a graduate assistant coach for the 2018 campaign.

A native of Rochester, she also served as head coach with Pride Girls Lacrosse Club and Rochester Elite Lacrosse Club while also working as an official for the Rochester Board of Women’s Lacrosse Officials.

Stauffer played for the Bonnies from 2013-17. During her collegiate career, she was a two-time All-Atlantic 10 honoree and she ranks top-15 all-time in program history for total goals with 95 as well as top-20 in total points at 115. Her 135 career draw controls also rank top-10 in program history.

She captured all-conference accolades for the first time as a sophomore in 2014, scoring a team-high 32 goals with a team-best 51 draw controls and 26 groundballs. She repeated as an All-Atlantic 10 performer in her junior season with team-highs in goals (30) and draw controls (58), a mark that stands second in SBU single-season history. Injuries limited her final two seasons including 2016, when she scored six goals in four games, but she returned for a redshirt campaign in 2017 and posted 16 goals and 24 points along with 25 draw controls in nine games.

When she graduated in 2017, Stauffer was honored with the department’s female Letterwinner Award, presented every year to one senior male and female student-athlete who has assembled outstanding records of athletic accomplishments over their careers.

Stauffer earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology with a minor in criminology from St. Bonaventure. She went on to earn a Master’s of Education from Edinboro in 2019.