Head Coach

Megan Eddinger

Senior Woman Administrator, Head Field Hockey Coach

In her first 17 seasons as head coach, Megan Eddinger has led the Muhlenberg field hockey team to a 156-142 record, six Centennial Conference playoff appearances, a string of wins against nationally ranked opponents and the 2016 ECAC championship.

Eddinger reached the 100-win milestone when the Mules defeated Dickinson, 1-0, in 2015 and became the program's all-time winningest coach with her 110th win, a 2-1 overtime defeat of King's in 2016.

Eddinger coached Muhlenberg to one of its best years ever in 2016. The Mules set school records for wins (18), shutouts (11) and goals scored (61) in a season and won the ECAC championship. They were ranked in the top 20 in Division III for most of the season and tied for first place in the CC with a 9-1 mark, which included a 1-0 upset of Franklin & Marshall, at the time ranked sixth in Division III. One of Eddinger's players became the first player in program history named to the NFHCA All-America first team.

The 2018 squad also scored an upset of a Franklin & Marshall team that was ranked in the top 10 en route to earning a CC playoff berth. Muhlenberg defeated Dickinson in the first round of the CC playoffs before falling to F&M in double overtime in the semifinal rematch.

The Mules went 12-6 in 2014, tying for the second-most wins in program history and earning berths in the CC playoffs and the ECAC Mid-Atlantic Tournament. Muhlenberg's first win of the season was a 3-1 defeat of Montclair State, at the time ranked third in Division III, and the Mules later toppled 20th-ranked Dickinson and received votes in the national poll themselves for five straight weeks.

Despite graduating a large group of seniors, Muhlenberg duplicated many of those feats in 2015, hosting CC and ECAC playoff games and upsetting a Montclair State team that was ranked seventh in Division III.

In 2006, Muhlenberg qualified for the CC playoffs for the first time in six years and earned its first postseason win since 1992. The Mules returned to the playoffs the following season. In 2012, Muhlenberg received votes in the national Division III poll after its 4-1 start and upset of No. 9 Montclair State, and the 2013 Mules toppled No. 15 Ursinus, the eventual CC champion, en route to a playoff berth.

Eddinger, who also is senior woman administrator at Muhlenberg, served as assistant coach for three years before taking over the head reins, helping the Mules to a 34-21 record. The team was ranked as high as seventh in Division III in 2003, a year after tying a school record with 14 wins. Overall, in 18 seasons as a head and assistant coach, Eddinger has guided Muhlenberg to a 175-146 record.

Eddinger is a 2001 graduate of Gettysburg College, where she was a captain and four-year starter on the field hockey team that won three Centennial Conference championships and played in the NCAA Tournament in 1998 and 1999. An All-Centennial Conference selection all four years, she also was named to the All-South Region second team in 1999.

Also Muhlenberg's senior woman administrator, Eddinger spends the offseason coaching with the US Field Hockey Futures program. She also coached a USA Athletes International team in Barbados for two years.