Naomi Radio was named the head lacrosse coach at Shippensburg on July 17, 2006 and is set to begin her third full season at the helm of the Lady Raiders. She has guided the team to 12 victories during her tenure while directing five all-conference selections over the past two seasons.
Radio was an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders in 2006 under Bertie Landes and worked extensively with Michelle Mangle and helped Shippensburg return to the PSAC Women's Lacrosse Championship after the team posted a 1-14 record in 2005.
Her playing career was spent at Mount St. Mary's, where Radio was named All-Northeast Conference (NEC) three times, including being named to the First Team twice and earning Player of the Year honors in 2004. She finished her career as the all-time leader in saves at The Mount, totaling 770 from 2002-05, a mark which is ranks 18th in Division I history.
Radio is also The Mount’s career leader in minutes (4,342:50) and wins (41) while leading the NEC in saves percentage three consecutive years from 2003-05. In addition to being named All-NEC First Team and NEC Player of the Year in 2004, she led the conference in goals against average and saves percentage and totaled a school-record 225 saves.
A starter in 74 of the 75 games she played in at Mount St. Mary’s, Radio currently holds four of the top-six record for saves in a single-season.
A two-sport athlete at the Mount, Radio was also a goalkeeper on the women’s soccer team, starting in 50 of the 55 games she played in. She finished her career as the school’s leader in minutes played with 4,011:51, second in saves (267) and third in wins (12). Radio also had a .737 save percentage for her career.
Radio also excelled in the classroom. A 2004 graduate of Mount St. Mary’s with a bachelor of arts degree in political science and minors in history, philosophy and legal studies, she boasted a 3.98 grade point average. Radio was a two-time Academic All-America First Team selection in lacrosse from 2004-05 and an Academic All-District II First Team honoree in soccer in 2003.
Radio was selected as the NEC Student-Athlete of the Year in 2004, was a three-time member of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Academic Honor Roll and was a two-time NEC women’s lacrosse scholar-athlete. She received numerous honors and prizes for her excellence in the classroom.
She later received her master of arts in teaching with a concentration in secondary social studies from Mount St. Mary’s in May 2006. At Shippensburg, Radio has taught introduction to government and politics courses while also assisting with Tau Kappa.
A native of Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, Radio graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School where she was a four-year letterwinner in soccer and a recipient of the Kuderer Prize for full tuition to Mount St. Mary’s. She has also been a coach and instructor at numerous lacrosse and soccer camps along the East Coast.
Naomi and her husband Tim live in Fayetteville with their son, Noah, and dog, Ike.
