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Ana Heneberry will enter her ninth season as a member of the University of Michigan women's lacrosse staff in the 2024 season and her third as the associate head coach after being elevated in June 2022.
Heneberry works primarily with the Maize and Blue defense and coached a defensive cohort that led the nation in scoring defense for the entirety of the 2024 season, ending the year allowing just 7.55 goals per game. The Wolverines followed up the impressive 2024 campaign ranked seventh nationally, allowing just 9.05 goals per game.
The Wolverines made their fifth NCAA Tournament appearance in 2025 with a veteran goalie in the cage. Senior Erin O'Grady repeated as the Big Ten Goalie of the Year, breaking the Michigan career wins record with 25. The Massapequa, N.Y., native is the third goalie in program history with more than 300 saves, ending her career with 351 to rank third all-time in Michigan annals. She ranked second nationally and led the Big Ten with a .534 save percentage under Heneberry's tutelage.Â
Heneberry helped raise the bar for Michigan women's lacrosse as the team has made four NCAA Tournament appearances with its first coming in 2019 as the Wolverines hosted the first and second rounds. Individually, Erin O'Grady was named U-M's first-ever IWLCA Goalie of the Year and Big Ten Goalie of the Year, while earning National Defensive Player of the Week honors and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors on three occasions. The junior goalie also was an IWLCA, Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine first team All-America honoree and an all-region selection. Furthermore, senior Maddie Burns broke the U-M career ground-ball record with her 101st pickup against Northwestern on April 21 as she closed out her career with 111 ground balls. She was the first Big Ten Defender of the Year for U-M, an IWLCA first team All-American and also earned Inside Lacrosse All-America honors as well as first team all-region honors.
Following up the stellar 2022 season, Heneberry's defense ranked 17th nationally, giving up just 9.35 goals per game. Heneberry helped Maddie Burns to a Tewaaraton Watch List accolade after she led the Wolverines with 23 caused turnovers and 34 ground balls. She was also instrumental in Maya Santa-Maria becoming just the fourth Wolverine to eclipse 100 saves in a season as she ended 2023 with 136 and led the Big Ten Conference with a .489 save percentage.Â
Heneberry also was instrumental in goalie Arielle Weissman becoming the first Wolverine to earn IWLCA Third Team All-America honors and Maddie Burns notching IWLCA All-Region honors, while Mira Shane became Michigan's all-time career leader in saves (370), save percentage (.453) and wins (24) under Heneberry's tutelage.
The 2024 season will mark Heneberry's 13th year as an assistant coach at the Division I level, while as a player, she was an All-America defender at Loyola University Maryland.
Prior to Michigan, Heneberry served as an assistant coach at Boston University for three seasons (2015-17), working primarily with the Terriers' defense. Heneberry helped BU reach the Patriot League semifinals in each of her three seasons. On an individual level, she coached the Patriot League Defender of the Year in 2017.
In addition to her assistant coach responsibilities at BU, she also participated in the Jansen Leadership Academy and served as a member of the IWLCA Convention Planning Committee.
Heneberry transitioned to Boston University after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at High Point University (2013-14), where she was the defensive coordinator and also worked one-on-one with the goaltenders. Heneberry helped guide the Panthers to back-to-back Big South championships and consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. In both seasons at HPU, she helped coach the Big South Defensive Player of the Year.
A native of Timonium, Maryland, Heneberry was a four-year standout defender at Loyola University Maryland from 2009-12. During her senior season in 2012, she helped lead the Greyhounds to their second straight Big East Conference title and second consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. That same season, Heneberry represented Loyola as a team captain, was recognized individually as the Big East Preseason Defender of the Year, and was a member of the Tewaaraton Watch List. She became the second player in school history to record 100 caused turnovers and 100 ground balls. She was also named a Third Team All-American following her junior season in 2011.
During her playing career, she also served as the head coach of Diamonds Lacrosse Club in Baltimore, Maryland, and provided one-on-one instruction sessions to youth players.
Heneberry graduated from Loyola in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in communications with a specialization in public relations and advertising.
