Tara Prosak enters her seventh season with Siena Women's Lacrosse for the 2025 season.
Prosak has helped guide the Saints to the MAAC Championship game on three occasions (2019, 2021 and 2023), producing 25 All-MAAC selections in the process. Among them were two MAAC Players of the Year in Sammy Horton (Goalkeeper, 2019) and Nicole McNeely (Offensive, 2022) as well as the 2023 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year Mary Soures and the 2018 MAAC Rookie of the Year Kerry Gerety.
Academically, the program tied a single-season high for the 2023 season with 20 student-athletes on the MAAC All-Academic Team and five student-athletes on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team, which recognized Hannah Field, Grace Dobrzynski, Colabufo, Bentley, and Kelly Logue. Additionally, Laura Bonomo was named an Arthur Ashe Junior Sports Scholar. As a whole, the team achieved a spring cumulative GPA of 3.65.
In 2022, Siena played host to the MAAC Championships for the first time in program history as they held a share of the MAAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in 17 years.
Under Prosak's mentorship in 2019, the Green and Gold had seven selected to All-MAAC teams, including the program's most-tenured goalie Sammy Horton, who earned MAAC Goalkeeper of the Year and First Team honors. Horton also set the program record for wins in a season with 12, breaking the previous program record of 10. Under the watch of Prosak, Horton maintained one of the highest save percentages in the NCAA throughout the 2019 season.
In 2021, she would help guide the Saints to an 11-3 record, putting up the highest single-season win percentage in program history (.786) while also setting a program-record with eight straight victories through the MAAC Semifinals. Despite the 2020 season being unexpectedly shortened, Prosak helped the Saints finish the year ranked second in the nation in fewest turnovers per game and the MAAC leader in clearing percentage.
During her first year on staff in 2019 with head coach Abigail Rehfuss, Prosak helped bring the Saints from a one-win MAAC team prior to her arrival to a new program record 12 wins in 2019 and a win away from the program's first MAAC Championship.
In the classroom, Prosak has helped promote a strong academic showing from the Saints. Siena was selected for IWLCA Academic Awards each of the last four years, with 2022 being the most successful. The Saints would have 15 individual players named to the IWLCA Division I Honor Roll, a new program record. Siena would also post a 3.67 team GPA. In 2022, the team also set a program record for most selections to the MAAC All-Academic Team and the highest team GPA of any Siena program.
In her time away from Siena, Prosak assists as an assistant coach of the 518 eXcelerate club lacrosse team.
Prosak returned home to the northeast after spending the 2017-18 academic year earning her master’s and playing for Durham University in the United Kingdom, where she assisted the team in capturing the 2018 British University National Championship.
Prosak spent the 2017 season as an assistant coach with Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA, assisting the Gaels in defensive coordination, game strategy and goalkeeper development.
Her work across the pond began in 2014, when she spent two years as the lead development officer for the English Lacrosse Association in Reading, UK. Prosak was responsible for spreading the sport by recruiting players, arranging lacrosse related events and managing up to seven teams at one time, which included a season at Oxford University coaching the school's first and second teams. Additionally, Prosak had the opportunity to work with the U19 Development Team for the English National Academy as a Goalkeeper coach, as well as the Scottish National Team.
Prior to her time in England, Prosak was involved in various youth programs and camps throughout her collegiate career.
A four-year letter winner at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, Prosak started all 64 career games from 2011-14, captaining the squad during her senior season. A two-time Empire 8 Goalkeeper of the Year in 2013 & 14, she earned First Team All-Conference honors in each of her final two campaigns, receiving Honorable Mention nods her first two seasons. A participant in the 2014 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Star Game, she finished her career ranked second in program history with 517 saves.
A native of Jamesville, NY, Prosak received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in sports management in May 2014, graduating with a 3.7 GPA and earning a spot on the Dean’s List each semester. She earned her master’s in business management from Durham in September 2018.
