Wesner has played a vital role in the growth of field hockey and women’s athletics at Kutztown over the past 27 years. She has compiled a record of 275-213-15, posting winning seasons in 18 of those 27 years.

Last season, Wesner’s team was 10-10. Three players were named to the All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) teams and two were named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II All-America team.

In the previous two seasons, Wesner’s teams combined for 29 wins and back-to-back trips to the PSAC Playoffs. In 2005, the Golden Bears were ranked as high as third among NCAA Division II teams and second in the South Region. In 2004, KU ranked as high as fourth in Division II and third in the region. Wesner, the 2004 PSAC Coach of the Year, recorded her 250th career win vs. Shippensburg in 2004.

From 2000-03, the Golden Bears won 32 games. During the 1999 season, Wesner recorded her 200th career victory, an overtime decision over Mercyhurst, with the winning goal scored by her daughter, Sarah. In 1998, Wesner’s team reached the PSAC Playoffs.

In 1997, the Golden Bears reached the pinnacle of success, advancing to the NCAA Division II Championship game for the first time in school history. For her effort, Wesner was named NFHCA Division II Coach of the Year, as well as NFHCA South Region, PSAC and Kutztown University Women’s Coach of the Year.

Wesner was named PSAC Coach of the Year after her 1988 squad recorded a school-record 18 wins and finished fifth in the national tournament. She has captured three PAIAW conference crowns, while coaching one national player of the year, 38 national All-Americans, eight all-regional selections, 19 PAIAW all-stars, and 52 All-PSAC honorees.

Her team has earned the NFHCA Team Academic Award each of the past four seasons, finishing in the top five in Division II in team GPA each year.

Wesner has taken her team on international tours to Great Britain, Holland and Australia to compete against some of the best teams those countries have to offer.

Wesner served as head women’s lacrosse coach at KU from 1984-90. She was the director of equal opportunity in sports from 1985-1987 and has served as the department’s compliance officer. Prior to KU, Wesner taught health and physical education and coached field hockey in the Twin Valley School District. Her 1975 squad won the Berks County title.

Wesner serves on several field hockey committees, including that of the PSAC, NFHCA and the NCAA national selection committee. She has served as the president of the Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

Wesner received a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from West Chester in 1971. Wesner and her husband, Doug, reside in Exeter Township. Their son, Joshua, passed away in April 2000 after a courageous battle with Hodgkin’s Disease. Their daughter, Sarah, was a member of the field hockey team from 1997-2000, and was a team captain in 2000. She graduated with a degree in social work and a minor in anthropology from KU in 2002. Sarah returned to KU in 2007 as the head women’s lacrosse coach, after serving as head field hockey coach and assistant lacrosse coach at Gwynedd-Mercy College.

Beth Wheeler enters her first year as the assistant coach of both field hockey and women’s lacrosse at KU. She was a four-year member of the Roanoke College field hockey team and a three-year member of Roanoke’s lacrosse team. Wheeler comes to KU from Saint James School, a boarding school in Saint James, Md., where she coached the girls varsity field hockey team to a 12-3-2 record and a league championship.