Breanna Cavanaugh ’19, MA ’20 is back with the Cardinals for her third season as an assistant coach in the 2027 season.
Cavanaugh helped lead the Cardinals to another sensational season in 2026, winning a single-season program record 19 games while the Cardinals won 15+ games for the fourth straight year. Wesleyan went on to finish as the NESCAC Runner-Up for the third straight year while the Cardinals advanced to the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament for just the second time in team history and later the NCAA Championship game for the first time.
A familiar face to campus, Cavanaugh graduated from Wesleyan with a bachelor’s degree as a double major in biology and neuroscience & behavior in 2019 and later earned a master’s degree in neuroscience in 2020.
She played lacrosse all four years of undergrad at Wesleyan (2016-19) and was a member of the 2019 team that advanced to the Final Four (national semifinal round) of the NCAA Tournament. She was a two-time Scholar Athlete at Wesleyan while also earning IWLCA Academic Honor Roll and NESCAC All-Academic Team awards in 2018 and 2019. She was the winner of the Jones’ Leadership Award in her senior year.
Prior to Wesleyan, Cavanaugh coached for a New Jersey travel team and at the middle and high school levels. After graduation, she was certified as a high school lacrosse referee in 2024 and while in PA school in Manhattan, she did 1-on-1 personal training for four different girls for lacrosse speed and agility.
Cavanaugh currently works in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery with Hartford Healthcare and has served in this role since 2023 after graduating from the PA program at Weill Cornell Medical College that same year.
