Parcelluzzi is entering into her 21st season as the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Montclair.
The all-time winningest coach in program history, Parcelluzzi has compiled an outstanding record of 206-111, a .649 winning percentage. She has led the Red Hawks to seven conference championships, six NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and has coached all eight of Montclair State’s All-American selections.
During her time, Parcelluzzi’s squads have won no fewer than nine games in a season and registered 12 or more wins nine times including three 15-win campaigns. During the 2021 campaign, the Red Hawks claimed the NJAC Regular Season Championship and up-ended perennial nationally-ranked TCNJ for the first time in program history during the regular season.
Taking over the team in July 2005, all Parcelluzzi did was guide MSU to a 15-3 mark, setting the season record for victories. The Red Hawks won their final 12 games of the year - another record and their .833 winning percentage was one of the best in Division III. In addition, Montclair posted a perfect ledger during the regular season in the Skyline Conference and remained that way as it captured its first league title by outscoring its opponents, 40-11 in the Skyline Tournament. The Red Hawks then put the exclamation point on its banner season by winning the ECAC Division III Upstate Championship in just its second postseason appearance. In addition to its team success, Montclair also had eight players named All-Conference and four chosen to the IWLCA Boardwalk All-Region Team. For her efforts, Parcelluzzi and her assistants were named the Skyline Conference’s Coaching Staff of the Year.
Parcelluzzi followed up her sensational first season with an even better one in 2007. For the second consecutive year MSU dominated its Skyline and claimed the conference title. This time, the league crown came with an automatic bid and put the Red Hawks into the NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship for the first time where they made the most of it topping Eastern Connecticut in the first round before falling to Hamilton College in the second round. The Red Hawks finished the year at 14-4 and produced the first two All-Americans in program history in Brianna Gillin and Dina Morrone.
Montclair State would earn a third Skyline Conference championship in 2008 and claimed four the next five while compiling an overall mark of 71-41 along with an impressive 43-3 in league contests. The Red Hawks made four straight trips to the NCAA Tournament from 2010-13. In 2012, the Red Hawks upended York College (PA) in the first round at Sprague Field scoring the last two goals in a 14-13 victory.
The next year, Montclair State capped off its appearance in the Skyline Conference with its sixth and final championship. The win was a special one for Parcelluzzi who earned her 100
th career victory in the 16-13 triumph at Farmingdale State.
Seven times in her brilliant career Parcelluzzi has been named Coach of the Year. The first five coming in the Skyline Conference with the other two from the NJAC, which Montclair State became a full-time member of in 2014 after five campaigns in a dual role. She swept the honor in both leagues in 2012 and 2013.
In 2025, Parcelluzzi earned her 200th career victory, as Montclair defeated UMass Dartmouth on March 10 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Parcelluzzi came to MSU from Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland where she spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the Mount under head coach Courtney Martinez Connor. During her tenure, the Mountaineers won back-to-back Northeast Conference regular-season and tournament titles, and advanced to the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament.
Prior to her two seasons at the Mount, Parcelluzzi was an assistant coach for the women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams at Marist for two years. At Marist, Parcelluzzi helped the Red Foxes reach the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament each season, including the championship game in 2003.
A four-year letterwinner on the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, she helped the Scarlet Knights to its first NCAA tournament appearance in her senior campaign (1999). That year, Parcelluzzi was named to the Mid-Atlantic Regional first team All-America and Most Valuable Player and participated in the annual North/South game.
Parcelluzzi Through the Years
