Jessica Kennedy (formerly Mulhern) was named the eighth head coach for Stonehill field hockey on Feb. 19, 2026.
Kennedy was most recently the head coach for field hockey at her alma mater, Adelphi, for the 2022-2025 seasons.
Kennedy owns an overall career record of 106-69, after going 4-4 in the NEC (4-12 overall), good for a tie for fourth in the conference standings in her first year with Stonehill in 2026. Under Kennedy's leadership, Siena De Roeck and Isabelle Morton were honored on the All-NEC second team.
In her four seasons at Adelphi, she was 44-34, going 36-15 in the Northeast-10. She coached three National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-Americans, Conference Player of the Year and Regional Player of the Year, as well as15 All-Conference athletes at Adelphi. In just her first year as Adelphi head coach in 2022, she guided the Panthers to win the Northeast-10 Championship for the first time in program history. She also led the program to the NCAA Division II Tournament Quarterfinals in the same year, only the third time since the program emerged back in 2008.
Kennedy excelled as a two-sport athlete at Adelphi from 2008-12. Not only was she a four-year starter on the field hockey team, Kennedy also was a three-time NE10 All-Conference runner in indoor track and field.
She tallied 21 career points as a midfielder for the Panthers and earned inclusion on the 2009 and 2010 NFHCA National Academic Squad. Kennedy also helped to set school-record relay times in the 4x800 indoor and outdoor event during her track tenure.
Kennedy spent the previous eight years at fellow Division II school Limestone University in Gaffney, S.C.
She first worked as an assistant for the Saints, before being elevated to head coach in 2017. Kennedy served at the helm for five seasons and led the program to a 58-23 record. She helped Limestone to back-to-back South Atlantic Conference Carolinas Tournament Championships in 2018 and 2019. In the postponed COVID spring season, Kennedy was SAC Coach of the Year in 2021.
Additionally, the Saints won a South Atlantic Conference Carolinas regular season championship in 2018 and finished as finalists for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II title after winning the ECAC regular season title in 2017, under Mulhern.
Kennedy earned her Level 1 Certification and worked and coached with the USA Field Hockey Futures Program from 2016-2019. She attended the NCAA Women's Coaches Academy in 2016 and 2024, and she was invited back to attend the Women's Coaching Academy 2.0.
Kennedy's Year-by-Year Coaching Record
2017- Limestone - 15-4 (9-1): ECAC Regular Season Champions, Tournament Finalist
2018- Limestone - 14-4 (9-1): SAC Regular Season & Tournament Champions
2019- Limestone - 15-5 (8-4): SAC Champions
2020-21- Limestone - 5-2 (5-1): SAC Semifinals (Postponed Spring Season)
2021- Limestone - 9-8 (7-5): SAC Finalist
2022 – Adelphi - 13-9 (9-4) : NE10 Champions; NCAA Quarterfinals
2023 – Adelphi - 10-9 (8-5) : NE10 Semifinals
2024 – Adelphi - 9-10 (9-4) : NE10 Quarterfinals
2025 – Adelphi – 12-6 (10-2) : NE10 Semifinals
2026 – Stonehill – 4-12 (4-4)
TOTAL: 106-69 (78-31); 10 Seasons; 2 SAC Titles; 1 NE10 Title; 1 NCAA Appearance
