A 2011 Loyola graduate, Caroline Hager enters her 14th season on the Greyhounds coaching staff in 2025. She has been a part of 11 conference championships and 13 NCAA tournament appearances during her playing and coaching career on campus.
Hager’s senior season marked the program’s return to the national stage, as she all started all 20 games for a team which finished 17-3, won a Big East championship and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals. She was selected to the Division I North vs. South All-Star Game that spring, and totaled 59 goals, 34 assists and 35 ground balls overall as a student-athlete at Loyola.
In her first season as a coach, Hager helped guide the Greyhounds to a second-straight Big East title and a return trip to the national quarterfinals. Loyola has since added five Patriot League tournament championships in six completed seasons since joining the conference in 2014, and the Greyhounds’ 57-0 record against conference opponents during the regular season is the longest active winning streak in Division I.
Hager has coached 32 IWLCA All-America selections, 26 conference major award winners and 80 all-conference selections in her 13 seasons on the sidelines. Loyola has posted an overall record of 188-36 (.839 winning percentage) during that span.
Prior to joining the Greyhounds, Hagar won three PIAA State Lacrosse Championships during a standout career at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. She was a first team All-State, first team All-Central League and All-Main Line performer as a senior.
Hager graduated from Loyola with a bachelor’s degree in speech language pathology and audiology.
