Nicole Matos
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Nicole Matos is the assistant field hockey coach at Hamilton College.
Nicole Matos, previously the head field hockey coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School since 2018, joined the Hamilton College staff as an assistant coach in July 2023. She was also an assistant coach for the girls' varsity lacrosse and girls' varsity hockey teams and an assistant athletic director at Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH).
In 2021 Matos guided NMH to a 13-5 record and the quarterfinals of the New England Prep School Athletic Council Class A tournament for the first time since 1995. The 13 wins were a program record. Her players went on to compete at Amherst College, Williams College and Boston University, among others.
Matos was an assistant coach at Smith College in 2016 and 2017 and at Williams during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. She helped lead Smith to 19 wins and in 2016 the Pioneers finished 6-2 in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. The Ephs went 19-13 in her two seasons in Williamstown.
Matos was a four-year starter at goalkeeper for the St. Lawrence University Saints from 2010 to 2013. She finished her career with a program record 530 saves to go along with an .800 save percentage. Matos was a two-time Liberty League all-conference first team selection, and she made the all-region team and played in the senior all-star game in 2013.
The Greenwich, Conn., native earned her bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence and has a master's degree in exercise and sports science from Smith.