Kerry Kiddoo prepares for her fifth season as a member of head coach Meghan Dawson's coaching staff.

Kiddoo joined Dawson’s staff before the 2015 season after spending 2014 as a volunteer assistant coach at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C.

Kiddoo helped the Saints to finish with a 17-3 record including an unblemished mark of 6-0 in Division II’s Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Limestone then went into the ECAC Tournament and took the title after two wins, but didn’t qualify for the NCAA Championship.

Prior to South Carolina, the Chapel Hill native played collegiately as a defender at Hofstra University (2009-13) and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations and a minor in sociology.

There, she played the most minutes of anyone on the team. In 2011, Kiddoo helped the Pride’s defense to a No. 3 ranking in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in defensive saves as well as a No. 21 raking in the NCAA in that category. She was also a two-time NFHCA Academic All-American, a four-time recipient of the CAA commissioner’s Academic Award and a four-time member of the Hofstra Athletics Academic Honor Roll.

Before Dawson brought her on as an assistant, Kiddoo had also been a coach for the Carolina All-Stars Field Hockey Club in Chapel Hill, N.C. since August of 2013. There, she coached both indoor and outdoor tournaments and games with players whose ages ranged from 7-18.

She was an assistant coach at her high school from August of 2013 to May of 2014, but her longest coaching stint came with the TarDevils Field Hockey team in Chapel Hill. That tenure lasted from December of 2010 through May of 2013. While with the TarDevils, she assisted with indoor and outdoor tournaments, clinics and practices and conducted private lessons with the players.