Ellen Newton is in her third season as an assistant coach for the D'Youville women's lacrosse program.
Newton joined the Saints after wrapping up a four-year playing career for Canisius College's women's lacrosse team. During her time in the Blue and Gold, she compiled a 10.65 goals against average along with a 0.461 save percentage. Newton capped off her career with an incredible performance on Senior Day, recording a career-high 15 saves in a Griffs win.
As a junior in 2018, Newton was selected as a national finalist for the Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award, which recognizes six women's lacrosse players througout all of Division I who help their teams achieve success in ways that cannot be measured in goals, saves, or ground balls. She also earned the atheltic department's Community Service Award in 2018, as well as the Heart of a Griffin Award in 2019.
Off the field, Ellen has worked at Cradle Beach in Angola with children from disadvantaged communities and children with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Newton was pushed towards the field of Occupational Therapy after she led mission trips to Krakow, Poland, where she worked at the Dzielo Pomocy Dzieciom, a Children's Home for abandoned, abused and neglected children.
Newton is a 2019 graduate of Canisius, where she earned her bachelor's degree in health and wellness. She is currently in her second year of the master's program for occupational therapy at D'Youville.
