NEWARK, DE -- Liz Frengs, who served as a volunteer assistant for the University of Delaware women’s lacrosse squad last spring, has been promoted to the team’s top assistant coaching position, head coach Kim Ciarrocca announced Monday.

Frengs (at right), a former standout player at Temple under Ciarrocca, replaces Alex Kahoe, who left the staff in July to take the assistant coach position at Duke University in Durham, NC. The Blue Hen staff also includes third-year part-time assistant Reid Watson.

Frengs coached during the 2005 season at Marist College before joining the Delaware staff in December, 2005. She helped lead the Blue Hens to a record of 5-12 this past season.

“I am very excited about having Liz remain with our staff in a full-time role,” said Ciarrocca, will enter her third season at the helm of the Blue Hens this spring. “Liz is a great recruiter and and teacher of the game. She understands how to teach the players the fundamentals and is very versatile. As a former midfielder as a player, she is able to coach both the offense and defense. Liz has already made an impact on this program as a volunteer coach last year. She has been a perfect fit for our program and our players.”

After serving as a student assistant coach at Temple under Ciarrocca in 2004, Frengs worked as an assistant under head coach Noelle Cebron at NCAA Division I Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2005. The team went 5-10 overall and lost to Manhattan 11-10 in double overtime in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference semifinals a year ago. Frengs and Cebron were former teammates at Temple.

A native of Collingswood, NJ (Collingswood HS), Frengs was a standout midfielder at Temple in 2000-04, helping the Owls win three straight Atlantic 10 Conference titles as a player and also leading the team to another league title during her stint as a student assistant. The team moved on to compete at the NCAA Tournament each of those league championship seasons.

As a player, she earned first team All-Atlantic 10 honors as a sophomore in 2001 and as a junior in 2002 and was a regional All-American her sophomore season. She earned a spot on the Atlantic 10 All-Tournament team all three seasons that she played in it and was named the tournament Most Outstanding Player in both 2001 and 2002.

She played in 61 career games with 60 starts and recorded 83 goals and 32 assists while adding 141 groundballs and 67 draw controls. She led her teams to a four-year mark of 47-26 under Ciarrocca.

After scoring 13 goals and seven assists as a freshman in 2000, she added 26 goals and six assists as a sophomore in 2001 and a career-high 32 goals and 16 assists to go with 50 groundballs and 31 draw controls as a junior in 2002. She played in just seven games as a senior in 2003 before suffering a career-ending knee injury.