Peri Steere will be entering her fourth season with the Mount Ida College women's lacrosse team after heading up the club program.  She has been recently named Assistant to Athletic Director Matthew Burke.    

Steere spent three years as assistant coach for the Wheaton College Women's Lacrosse team and helped lead the Lyons to their fifth straight New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament championship game in 2006.   

In 2005, Steere was the junior varsity lacrosse coach at Weston High School after a one-year stint at the Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire, England. At Westonbirt, Steere coached and trained three teams comprised of girls in different age groups.

Steere was a Wheaton Athletic Mentor (WAM) from 2001-04, during which time she also served as president. The WAMs chose her for the NCAA Leadership Committee in 2003, and Steere received the Caroline Cutler Metcalfe Leadership Award from Wheaton in 2004.

Steere, a two-time captain for Wheaton, helped her team capture their first two NEWMAC titles.  She missed only one game during her career and started all 68 games in which she played. She helped the Lyons to a 20-4 mark in NEWMAC play and was Wheaton's co-captain her junior and senior seasons, when the Lyons won the NEWMAC regular season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.

Steere totaled 53 goals, 23 assists and 76 points during her career and was twice named to the NEWMAC All-Conference team.

She graduated from Wheaton in 2004 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy.

Jennifer Daly enters her first season as the goalkeeper coach for the Mount Ida College women’s lacrosse program under the direction of fourth year head coach Peri Steere.  

Daly started her coaching career with Albany Elite Lacrosse in Albany, New York as the Head Goalkeeper Coach.  Daly trained and coach middle and high school girl’s lacrosse goalies’ focusing on proper techniques and creating practice plans.

In the spring of 2008, Daly was the assistant girl’s varsity lacrosse coach at Guilderland High School in Guilderland Center, New York.   Daly aided in an impressive 22-1 overall record leading the girls to a Section II championship.

Daly graduated from the University of Albany in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science.  In December 2008, Daly received a Master of Science in Second Education in Mathematics as well.

She was a member of the University of Albany’s women’s lacrosse program from 2003-2007 as a goalkeeper.  She was named to the America East All-Rookie team in 2004 as well as a first team league selection in 2006 and a second team honor in 2007.  Daly is the school’s all-time saves leader. 

Currently Daly teaches Mathematics at Gateway Regional High School in Huntington, Massachusetts.  She resides in Easthampton, Massachusetts.