Brooke DellaValle is in her third season as the head lacrosse coach at Shippensburg University in 2026.
DellaValle was named the 2025 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division Coach of the Year after leading the Raiders to an 8-9 record – the team’s best mark in 11 years. SU improved its win total by four games and produced a five-game win streak - its longest in a single season since April 2004.
Additionally, Shippensburg posted its first positive goal differential in 13 seasons, scoring 207 goals while allowing 202 (48 fewer than the 2024 campaign).
DellaValle is just the third Raider lacrosse coach to be recognized by the PSAC with its top honor, joining Bertie Landes (2006) and Deb Tweed (1995).
In 2025, senior attacker Sara Vosburg and junior defender Grace DeMarzio were named to the All-PSAC Eastern Division First Team, while junior midfielder Ali Pioli and senior goalkeeper Kayla Vosburg earned All-PSAC Eastern Division Second Team honors.
SU’s four All-PSAC honorees were its most in a single season in 12 years. It was the first time that Shippensburg had two All-PSAC First Team performers in the same season since Gayle Kuntzmann (midfield) and Katie Brewer (attack) in 2010.
Through her first two seasons, DellaValle has compiled a 12-22 record.
DellaValle arrived at Shippensburg after two successful seasons as the head coach at nearby Wilson College (NCAA Division III). Wilson reinstated women's lacrosse as a sport in 2021, the year before DellaValle became head coach. She inherited a four-win team and guided the Phoenix to an 18-14 overall record in her two seasons.
In 2023, Wilson posted a 12-5 record, reached the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Championship game, and had nine All-CSAC players. The Phoenix also had two players earn College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors.
DellaValle instructed an array of top performers including Jill Ahlgren, who led NCAA Division III in 2023 with 4.2 caused turnovers per game. Ahlgren ranked third in the nation with 6.3 groundballs per game and led the CSAC in goals (62), points (92), draw controls (130), caused turnovers (72) and groundballs (107). Goalkeeper Krystal Kienast ranked third in the nation with 6.54 goals-against average (GAA).
The Phoenix reached the CSAC Semifinals in DellaValle's first season, winning four of six conference matches in 2022. In her two seasons at Wilson, her teams combined to post an 8-3 record in CSAC play.
Before her appointment as the head coach at Wilson, DellaValle spent four seasons as an assistant coach at her alma mater, Shepherd. DellaValle's coaching specialty is offense, and among the standout performers she mentored with the Rams include two-time Mountain East Conference (MEC) Offensive Player of the Year Lillian Funke. The Rams won two MEC titles with DellaValle on staff before transitioning to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) in advance of the ill-fated 2020 season that was derailed by the pandemic.
As a student-athlete, DellaValle was a four-year letterwinner at Shepherd from 2014-17 who finished with 94 career goals and 112 career points. As a senior, DellaValle earned All-MEC First Team honors after ranking second on the Rams with 39 goals and 13 assists. She earned All-MEC honorable mention as a junior.
As a prep athlete, DellaValle played at Linganore High School in Frederick County, Maryland. She was a four-year letterwinner in lacrosse and a three-year letterwinner in field hockey.
DellaValle also has experience on the club circuit, serving as the head coach of ThinkLax for the past four years.
A native of Frederick County in Maryland, DellaValle and her husband Tony are the proud parents of a newborn daughter, Summer. The family still resides in Frederick.
DellaValle earned her bachelor of science in therapeutic recreation from Shepherd in 2017 and her MBA (sports management concentration) from Shepherd in 2021.
