Giovanna Fasanello

  • Title
    Volunteer Assistant Coach
Fasanello's collegiate coaching career began at Wesleyan University in Middletown, C.T. as an assistant from 2018 to 2020. Between her time at Wesleyan and Nazareth, Fasanello was an assistant coach at Hamilton College from 2020 to 2022. In both of these roles, she lead and instructed student athletes at the Division III level while formulating and carrying out practice plans, analyzing game film, completing scouting reports, and assessing and recruiting prospective student-athletes.

Fasanello started her collegiate playing career at Division I Central Michigan University where she appeared in all but one game and made eight starts at midfield in 2014. She was credited with two assists and helped Central Michigan to its first Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season title since 2002 and the No. 1 seed in the MAC tournament for the first time in program history.

Fasanello went on to play at SUNY Geneseo from 2015 to 2017. Despite playing just three years with the Knights, she is tied for third place on the team's all-time list in career points, third in career goals and fifth in career assists. She is one of four Geneseo players with three assists in one contest and was a two-time team captain. She made the all-region first team as a forward and was a three-time member of the all-SUNYAC team, including a first team selection in 2016 and 2017. As a junior she helped lead the Knights to a SUNYAC tournament title and their second NCAA Championship appearance. She was named the Most Valuable Player of that conference tournament and picked up the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Offensive Player of the Week award for her performance in the event.

Fasanello competed with USA Field Hockey form 2012 to 2014 sas she trained with Futures Elite and Futures Level 1. She played in the 2014 Futures Elite Championship and the 2012 U16 National Futures Championship. In 2013 she was part of a team that won a gold medal at the U19 National Futures Championship, and she earned a silver medal at the 2012 AAU Junior Olympics. Her team received the 2012 Barbara Longstreth Award for teams that exemplify good sportsmanship.

The Clarance, N.Y., native received her bachelor's degree in psychology with a legal studies minor from Geneseo. Fasanello completed her master's degree in liberal arts and sciences from Wesleyan in 2020.