Bio

The 2024 season will be Taylor Bastien's 7th as the head coach of the Bentley University women's lacrosse program.

A 2013 graduate of Bentley and a former standout player for the Falcons, Bastien has compiled a 52-35 record in six seasons. She has led the team to the NE10 Playoffs each season and the Falcons have been ranked in the IWLCA Division II Top-25 Coaches Poll at the end of each of her six previous seasons.

2023 saw the Falcons knock off No. 2 ranked Florida Southern and No. 9 ranked Adelphi in the regular season. Goalie Ashlee Wargo was twice named the IWLCA Div. II Defensive Player of the Week. And at the end of the season, six players were named All-Conference and two earned All-Region honors; Maeve Johnson (2nd Team) and Caroline Affolter (2nd Team).

Since taking over as head coach prior to the 2018 season, Bastien has coached 22 All-Conference selections and eight All-Region selections. Goalie Eliza Bresler was a two-time, first team All-American under her guidance.

In 2021 Bastien led the Falcons to the first Northeast-10 Championship in program history with a 9-8 victory over Adelphi. The team was then selected to the NCAA Tournament for the first time and advanced to the East Region final. 

The Falcons ended the 2021 campaign with a 12-3 record and a final national ranking of 12th by the IWLCA, the highest ranking in program history.

A number of Bastien's student-athletes were recongized for their outstanding 2021 seasons, including goalie Eliza Bresler, who was named a first team All-America for the second time in her career. Bresler was also named the Division II Goalie of the Year and the NE10 Goalie of the Year (Northeast Division), and became the program's first CoSIDA Academic All-America. Attacker Julia Glavin and midfielder Cara McCarthy were also recongized with All-Region honors by the IWLCA.

The 2019 Falcons won 11 games and finished T-3rd in the NE10 standings. Under Bastien's tutelage, Bresler became the program's first ever, first team All-American in 2019. Bresler was also named the NE10 Goalie of the Year that season, and she and midfielder Julia Glavin also received All-Region honors from the IWLCA.

The program also excells academically. They earned the 2022-23 Team Academic Excellence Award from the NE10 for having the best combined GPA of women's lacrosse teams in the conference.

In the latest Academic Success Rate report from the NCAA, released in December 2023, the women's lacrosse program had a perfect 100% graduation rate.

The Falcons have also been named an Academic Honor Squad by the IWLCA for having a team GPA of 3.0 or better in each of Bastien's six seasons.

Prior to being named the head coach at Bentley before the 2018 season, Bastien was the head coach at Simmons College in Boston for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. She led the program to the GNAC championship game for the 2017 season.

In her two seasons as the coach at Simmons, Bastien helped eight of her student-athletes receive All-GNAC honors. In 2017, she guided the Sharks to the GNAC title game as the No. 6 seed, the lowest seed ever to reach that conference’s championship game. In her first season, the program achieved its highest win total in four years.

Prior to being named the head coach at Simmons, she was an assistant coach at the University of Bridgeport for one year. There, she focused on developing the team’s attack, and assisted in recruiting, practice planning and designing team workouts.

As a player at Bentley, Bastien was a four-year standout who served as team captain during the 2013 season. She helped lead the program to the NE10 Playoffs in all four of her seasons, while she led the team in points in both 2013 and 2014. In 2012, she recorded the second most assists in a single season in program history with 42.

Bastien ranks third all-time in program history with 220 points, on 99 goals and 121 assists. The assists total is second most in program history.

Bastien graduated from Bentley in 2013 with a bachelor of science in management and a minor in sports management. She then earned her MBA from Bentley in 2014 in marketing.

Career Record

*At Simmons

** Season cut short due to COVID-19