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Embry-Riddle Aero Univ - Daytona

Embry-Riddle Athletics
 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Division 2 Florida Southeast
Private Medium Competitive team
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Caitlin Villareal Kenahan

Caitlin Villareal Kenahan was named the head coach of the Embry-Riddle women’s lacrosse program in September 2022. She assumed the role after a successful 2021-22 season as the Eagles’ Offensive Coordinator.


Prior to coming to Embry-Riddle, Villareal Kenahan worked as a volunteer assistant coach for one season and as an assistant coach/scouting report coordinator for two seasons at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. She also spent two years as the head varsity lacrosse coach and three years as the assistant varsity field hockey coach at Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island.


Villareal Kenahan comes from a lacrosse family. Her father, Bill, played lacrosse for Navy and was the head women’s coach at Salve Regina for eight seasons before being tabbed as the Seahawks’ acting Director of Athletics in August 2022. Her brother, Ryan, played for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, while her sister, Maddie, played for Salve Regina and her youngest sister, Caroline, played for Saint Anselm.


Villareal Kenahan’s lacrosse heritage translated into successful careers at the collegiate and professional levels. She played collegiately at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, where she was a four-time Northeast-10 Second Team All-Conference selection. She led the Hawks to their first NCAA Tournament bid in 2014 and played in the 2016 IWLCA North/South All-Star Game. She wrapped up her career ranked fourth in points (226), third in goals (184) and ninth in assists (42) in program history.


After graduation, Villareal Kenahan played in the United Women’s Lacrosse League, which was the first professional women's lacrosse league in the United States. She played for the Boston Storm in 2017 and 2018 helping them to the championship game in both seasons.


Villareal Kenahan earned a degree in Business from Saint Anselm in 2016.

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Christina Nikolai

Stetson alumna Christina Nikolai was tabbed as the assistant coach of the Embry-Riddle women's lacrosse program in January 2023.


Nikolai was team captain and a five-year starting defender for the Hatters' women's lacrosse team. As a junior, she was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference first team after leading the team in caused turnovers and finishing sixth in the league in ground balls per game (2.22). She also garnered ASUN Honor Roll and IWLCA Academic Honor Roll honors in 2021 and was an ASUN Academic Honor Roll selection in 2022.


Nikolai spent a year and a half as the coach of the Burning River Lacrosse club program in Ohio. She was also a Student-Athlete Academic Success Specialist and Business Foundations tutor at Stetson.


A native of Medina, Ohio, Nikolai graduated from Stetson with and undergraduate degree in Business Administration in 2020 and earned her MBA in 2022.

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