Columbia University Athletics

Carey Fetting-Smith was named the first assistant coach in February 2009 after previously serving as the second assistant for the last two years.  She helped the Lions to back-to-back 11-win seasons in 2007 and 2008.

"I am very excited to have Carey join our staff.  She will be a great asset to our program," said Woolley.  "Not only is she an outstanding hockey player, she is an exceptional role model, teacher, and mentor.  She understands the culture of the Columbia Field Hockey program, and she knows how to win."

Fetting-Smith currently works as a Program Director for Teach For America and will join the Columbia Field Hockey staff full-time on July 1. As a Program Director, Fetting-Smith works to manage and develop 31 Teach For America teachers to achieve ambitious results with their students and to inspire these teachers to become lifelong advocates for educational equity.  During the interim period she will continue to work full time with Teach For America.

A two-year captain of the University of North Carolina field hockey program, Fetting-Smith led the Tar Heels to the 2004 ACC Championship with the best record in the country. She played on the USA U-21 National Team from 2000-2004, participating in the Junior World Cup and Junior Pan Am Games. The Baltimore, Md. native was also a two-time National Futures Tournament and Junior Olympics selection.

Most recently, Fetting-Smith was a member of the USA Field Hockey High Performance Training Team, and was selected to represent the Pennsylvania/New Jersey team at the National Championships in 2007 and 2008.  Last spring Fetting-Smith was invited to compete in a training series with the USA National B Team.

In 2005, upon graduating from UNC, Fetting-Smith was accepted from more than 17,000 applicants nationwide to join Teach For America – a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools.  She served as an elementary special education teacher at PS 202 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Fetting-Smith graduated from North Carolina in 2005 with a B.A. in comparative literature, and earned her M.S. in teaching from Pace University in 2007.