Monmouth University Athletics

Campus and Location

Located just a mile from the beach, Monmouth University is also only an hour’s train ride from New York City and is an hour and a half from Philadelphia. Additionally, Monmouth offers about 6,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students, in over 40 programs of study, including top programs in business, criminal justice, communications, chemistry, biology, and education. Our business department is one of the best, which offers a five-year MBA program.

What we stand for, who we are! Better people make better Hawks.  

Family: Working for each other no matter what, Team First

First 2: Start off consistent for first two minutes of every game/quarter, bounce back after goal against/on us

Intensity: Hard work, 3 sec win backs, recovery runs, quick set ups, quick free hits, 2 touch, play hard and  smart

Respect: team, coaches, opponents, program, our fitness

Selfless: hard truths, off ball running

Trust: communicate and respond, coachable (listening), our fitness

Program History

Monmouth Field Hockey, competing in the NCAA Division I Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), has transformed into a national contender under longtime head coach Carli Figlio

Program Highlights:

• No. 14 national ranking in 2026 (highest in program history)
• CAA Regular Season Championship title in 2026 (first since moving to the CAA) 
• 3 straight conference final appearances 
• 3 Conference Championship titles (in the MAAC)
• 3 NCAA Tournament Appearances 
• 22 All-CAA selections since joining in 2022, including Rookie, Coach and Player of the Year honors in 2025)
• 3 CAA Coach of the Year honors for head coach Carli Figlio 
• 2 CAA Rookie of the Year selections
• 2 CAA Defensive and Offensive Player of the Year selections
• 97 NFHCA All-Academic selections since 2018
• Hawks finished with top GPA in the nation in 2024, including program record 22 NFHCA All-Academic selections

Monmouth University - Home of the Hawks at the Jersey Shore

Monmouth University in the National Rankings

In 2025, Monmouth University once again earned a spot on Money magazine’s Best Colleges in America list, the 11th consecutive time the University has been named to the roster.
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Inside Look at Monmouth Academics

Monmouth University offers a welcoming and dynamic setting for student development. Monmouth has a 12:1 student-to-teacher ratio, centers for distinction and has consistently earned national recognition as an exceptional higher-education institution.

Head Coach Carli Figlio

Entering her 19th season at the helm of the Monmouth University field hockey team, Carli Figlio’s program has consistently excelled both on the field and in the classroom. Figlio’s squad won three conference championships and made three NCAA Tournament appearances during its tenure in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference before continuing the winning-ways this past season in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA).

Figlio led the Hawks to a regular season CAA title in 2025, going 5-0 in the regular season while also notching a 12-3 overall mark where the team most notably earned a 4-2 road victory over No. 17 nationally ranked Rutgers which helped establish a program-best No. 11 NFHCA national ranking. In turn, Figlio was named to her third CAA Coach of the Year honor and coached six CAA All-Conference selections including Rookie of the Year Florence van Doorn and the program's first CAA Defensive Player of the Year, Eulalie Brouwers. Both van Doorn and Brouwers, along with teammates Claire Campen and Mila Frye were also recognized as Mid-Atlantic All-Region picks including a first-team nod for van Doorn. Figlio also celebrated her 200th career victory, which came in a 7-1 win Sept. 7 over Rider, as she additionally guided the 2025 Hawks to a CAA Championship appearance. In the classroom, 20 Hawks were honored to the NFHCA All-Academic squad.

Figlio is a 2005 graduate of Kent State University, where she was a Dean's List student and earned a degree in Communications Studies. As a player, she led the Golden Flashes to three Mid-American Conference regular season field hockey championships, as well as the 2002 MAC Tournament title as a midfielder. She served as team captain from 2002-2004, and was named to the National Academic Team in 2003 and the All-Region Academic Team in 2004. Kent State made three appearances in the NCAA tournament during her career.