Marisa Didio

Marisa Didio, born in 1956, is a former United States women's national field hockey coach who also played at national level herself. She represented the United States in field hockey from 1978 to 1980 and in lacrosse in 1978. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1978 she moved quickly into coaching, serving as an assistant at New Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts before becoming head coach of lacrosse and field hockey at Tufts University at the age of 22. She returned to New Hampshire, where her 1985 lacrosse team won the national championship and her 1986 field hockey team finished second in the NCAA tournament. She later coached at Northwestern University, where she was voted Big Ten Coach of the Year, and at Yale University, whose women's field hockey team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference title in 1998. She coached teams at the U.S. Olympic Festivals of 1989, 1990 and 1991.