Maddie Buechli completed her fourth season on the sidelines for the Ducks in 2026 and second as Head Coach after serving as an assistant coach in 2023 and 2024.
In her two years at the helm, the Ducks have posted a 33-10 record, including a perfect 14-0 mark in MAC Freedom play. In postseason play, Buechli has guided Stevens to back-to-back MAC Freedom Tournament Championships (running the team's streak to five dating back to the 2022 season), and led the team to the Third Round of the 2025 NCAA Championships, the team's best finish in program history.
Buechli, a 2021 alumna of St. Thomas Aquinas, arrived on Castle Point prior to the 2023 season and helped pilot the Ducks to an 18-3 record, matching a program record for wins in a season. The Ducks went 7-1 in MAC Freedom play and captured their second conference title with a 10-5 win over Misericordia. The Ducks then topped Scranton 7-5 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament before falling at No. 10 York by a narrow 8-6 margin.
Under Buechli’s guidance, the Ducks ranked fourth in Division III in scoring defense in 2023, allowing just 6.24 goals per game to opponents, which led to the eighth-best scoring margin (+9.43) in the country. Additionally, the Ducks excelled in transition, finding success on 89% of their clearing attempts to rank eighth in D-III.
Buechli also coaches for the STEPS Lacrosse Club as a Head Coach for the past 2 years and coached for Prime Time Club Lacrosse from 2018-22. The Piermont, New York native graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas in 2021 with a degree in communications arts with a focus in public relations.
- 2026: Second Round
- 2025: Third Round
- 2026 Coach of the Year
- 2026: Alina Friz -- Attacker of the Year
- 2026: Stefanie Sellitto -- Midfielder of the Year
- 2026: Lauren Sullivan -- Defender of the Year
- 2026: Emily Leiby -- Attacker of the Year
- 2026: Stefanie Sellitto -- Midfielder of the Year
- 2026: Lauren Sullivan -- Defender of the Year
- 2026: Lauren Sullivan -- CSC First Team Academic All-America; Academic All-MAC
- 2026: Stefanie Sellitto -- CSC Third Team Academic All-America; Academic All-MAC
- 2026: Alina Friz -- Academic All-MAC
- 2026: Eran Gleason -- Academic All-MAC
- 2025 IWLCA Academic Honor Squad
- 2025: Emily Leiby -- IWLCA Division III Scholar-Athlete of the Year; Academic All-MAC
- 2025: Lauren Sullivan -- Academic All-MAC
- 2025: Stefanie Sellitto -- Academic All-MAC
- Guided the Ducks to MAC Freedom titles in 2025 and 2026 following perfect 7-0 regular season marks in league play in each season
- Named MAC Freedom Coach of the Year in 2026
- Led Ducks to Third Round of 2025 NCAA Championships, the team's best finish in program history
