Bridget Ballard

Bridget Ballard is in her first season as an assistant coach with the Cal lacrosse program and her first campaign as a collegiate coach in 2023. Ballard previously worked as a club coach for Building Blocks Lacrosse and also served as an assistant coach for one season at Chatham High School, where she helped lead her alma mater to the 2017 New Jersey state finals after being a two-time US Lacrosse All-American as a prep.

Ballard spent four seasons as a collegiate lacrosse student-athlete at Loyola University Maryland (2017-20), where her four teams racked up a combined 48-18 record and made a pair of second-round appearances in the NCAA Tournament in her final two full campaigns in 2018 and 2019. The Greyhounds' 2020 season was ended by COVID after a 5-0 start.

Ballard also spent one month in July of 2015 as a volunteer, coach and mentor with the South African Lacrosse Project that worked in conjunction with the Waterberg Welfare Society to provide meals to orphans and at-risk children in Limpopo, South Africa.

Ballard received her bachelor's degree from Loyola University in PR/Advertising in 2020 and has worked in the field since her graduation most recently as an account executive in New York City for Nike Communications, Inc.