Michele Madison
​Camp Director
Running owner operated camps for 30 years in San Diego, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, East Lansing and Charlottesville!

Head coach Michele Madison, a member of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame and a former assistant US National Team and Olympic coach, has spent 13 seasons at the helm of the Cavalier field hockey program, leading UVA to 11 NCAA Tournament berths, including national semifinals appearances in 2009 and 2010, and winning the first ACC title in program history in 2016. After leading her squad to the regular season conference title, she was named the 2017 ACC Field Hockey Coach of the Year, becoming just the second Virginia head coach to win the honor.

Madison, who in 2012 became just the 26th head coach in NCAA Division I history to hit the 300-win mark, currently ranks eighth among active coaches in career wins and has accumulated more wins than any other coach in Virginia program history. In 2019, she will be going for the 400th win of her collegiate coaching career, entering the season with a career record of 394-290-8.

During her tenure in Charlottesville, Madison has recruited and coached a three four-time All-Americans, Paige Selenski, Elly Buckley and Tara Vittese, who was the first player in program history to be named to the first team all four years of her career. In all, eight different Cavaliers have earned 22 All-America honors while playing for Madison.

Under Madison’s guidance, Tara Vittese became the first Cavalier and third-ever ACC player to be named the Longstreth/NFHCA National Player of the Year. As the recipient of the honor in 2015, 2016 and 2017, Vittese is the only player to ever be deemed top player in the country by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association three times in her career. Vittese was also a two-time ACC Offensive Player of the Year, the only Cavalier to twice be named the top player in the conference.

Two other of Madison's All-Americans, Selenski and Michelle Vittese, helped the U.S. National Team to its first gold medal at the Pan American Games in October 2011. Vittese, the 2012 USA Field Hockey Player of the year, and Selenski also competed with the US squad at the 2012 London Olympics and have helped elevate the US squad to a world No. 5 ranking in the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Vittese went on to compete in Rio with Selenski, hampered by injuries, named as an alternate to the squad.

Madison, a former member of the NCAA National Field Hockey Committee, has serves as a collegiate head coach for 30 years. She is the only person to take three different Division I programs (Temple, Michigan State and Virginia) to the NCAA Tournament and her teams have consistently been ranked in the top-10 at various times of the past decade. In addition to her experience in the college ranks, Madison also is one of only two active Division I head coaches to be a part of two United States Olympic staffs, having worked as a manager with the 1988 Olympic Team in Seoul and served as the head goalkeeper coach with the 1996 squad in Atlanta.

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 Ole Keusgen
Technical Director and Absolutely the Best Master Coach

Ole Keusgen joined the staff in 2015 as an assistant coach, focusing on the Cavalier defense and technical development.

In addition to serving as an assistant coach for the Cavaliers, Keusgen will also be one of the coaches leading U.S.A. Field Hockey's U-19 Women's National Team and Junior High Performance program in 2017 - 2020.

Keusgen has been playing field hockey since the age of six, including playing professionally in Germany with one of the most successful field hockey clubs in European history, Uhlenhorst Mülheim, winning the German Indoor championship in 2015 and the Euro Indoor Club Cup in 2015. Keusgen also competed with the German National Team, winning a bronze medal at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan.

In addition to playing hockey, Keusgen has also spent the last 10 years coaching the sport, coaching both the men’s and women’s first teams of Oberhausener THC. Keusgen graduated with a bachelor of science in sport science with a focus on training and health from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

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Alyssa Parker
Director Of Player Development​ & Fun

Alyssa Parker joined the field hockey coaching staff on July 19, 2021.
Parker played on the US Women’s Senior National Team from 2016 until she retired earlier this year after collecting her 50th international cap. As a member of Team USA, she competed in the FIH Pro League from 2019-20, including a ninth-place finish in 2019, and participated in the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifier in Bhubaneswar, India.
Parker spent last season working as an assistant coach at Saint Joseph’s. She has also served as a club coach for Powerhouse and has seven years of coaching experience at elite camps at various NCAAI universities.
Parker played collegiately at Maryland, playing her freshman and sophomore seasons in the ACC, including winning the league title in 2013, before closing out her career with the Terps in the Big Ten. She was a two-time NFHCA All-Region honoree (2014-15) and won the Big Ten Sportsmanship award in 2014.
As a prep player, she led Glenelg High to two state championships was just the second player in NFSHSA history to score 100 goals and log 100 assists, finishing her high school career with 114 goals and 108 assists. She was named the Varsity Sports Network’s No. 1 Field Hockey Player of the Decade for the state of Maryland and was inducted into both the Glenelg High School and Howard County Women’s Athletics Halls of Fame.
Parker graduated from Maryland with a B.S. in family science from the School of Public Health in May of 2016.