AMHERST, MA - After sharing head coaching duties with Christine Paradis for the past two seasons, Carol Knerr will assume sole control as head coach of the Amherst College field hockey program in 2003. Knerr spent one season as a field hockey assistant before joining forces with Paradis, who will remain with the program as an assistant coach and continue on as head coach of Amherst's national champion women's lacrosse team. 

Knerr helped lead Amherst to a 13-4 record in 2001 and a 7-8 mark in 2002. The Jeffs finished 14-3 and advanced to the NCAA Regional Quarterfinals in 2000, her only season as an Amherst field hockey assistant. Before coming to Amherst, Knerr spent a year and a half as a two-sport assistant coach at Ivy League power Dartmouth College, where she helped lead the Big Green to an ECAC Field Hockey Championship - and an Ivy League title and subsequent trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals in women's lacrosse - in 1999. 

The Wyndmoor, PA native was a standout women's lacrosse and field hockey player at the University of Richmond, where she was a four-year starter and captained both sports before graduating in 1998 with a degree in leadership studies and a minor in sports science. 

Knerr has also served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach since arriving at Amherst, helping guide the team to the NCAA title game in 2001, the NCAA Semifinals in 2002 and the program's first-ever NCAA Championship in 2003. 

Paradis finishes her nine-season Amherst field hockey tenure with eight consecutive postseason appearances, including a trio of NCAA Tournament berths and a trip to the NCAA Championship final in 1999. She was twice named New England Region Field Hockey Coach of the Year.