Taylor Bastien

Taylor Bastien is in her 4th season as the head coach of the Bentley University women's lacrosse program in 2020-21.

Bastien has guided the Falcons to a national ranking at season's end by the IWLCA in each of her three years at the helm of the program. Bentley finished the 2020 season ranked 16th, the 2019 season ranked 19th and the 2018 season ranked 22nd. She also led Bentley to the NE10 Playoffs in 2018 and 2019, before the 2020 season was cut short due to COVID-19.

The 2019 Falcons won 11 games and finished T-3rd in the NE10 standings. Under Bastien's tutelage, goalie Eliza Bresler became the program's first ever, first team All-American in 2019. Bresler was also named the NE10 Goalie of the Year that season, and she and midfielder Julia Glavin also received All-Region honors from the IWLCA.

A former standout player at Bentley, Bastien returned to Waltham after she was the head coach at Simmons College in Boston for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. She led the program to the GNAC championship game for the 2017 season.

In her two seasons as the coach at Simmons, Bastien helped eight of her student-athletes receive All-GNAC honors. In 2017, she guided the Sharks to the GNAC title game as the No. 6 seed, the lowest seed ever to reach that conference’s championship game. In her first season, the program achieved its highest win total in four years.

Prior to being named the head coach at Simmons, she was an assistant coach at the University of Bridgeport for one year. There, she focused on developing the team’s attack, and assisted in recruiting, practice planning and designing team workouts.

As a player at Bentley, Bastien was a four-year standout who served as team captain during the 2013 season. She helped lead the program to the NE10 Championship Tournament in all four of her seasons, while she led the team in points in both 2013 and 2014. In 2012, she recorded the second most assists in a single season in program history with 42.

Bastien ranks third all-time in program history with 220 points, on 99 goals and 121 assists. The assists total is second most in program history.

Bastien graduated from Bentley in 2013 with a bachelor of science in management and a minor in sports management. She then earned her MBA from Bentley in 2014 in marketing.