Meet the Team
Meet Phoebe
Meet Mike
Michael Spinner joins the Varsity Pathways team having spent the last 25 years working with student-athletes in a variety of capacities at the youth, high school, college, and international levels. Currently the Director of International Tours for Student Athlete World USA, Mike is also Director of the Jersey Thunder Girls' Lacrosse Club, and coaches girls' lacrosse at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut.
Mike has been involved in women's lacrosse for 25 years as a coach, program director, and administrator. He was previously the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Pace University, having started the program from its inception in 2014, and winning 27 games over its first three seasons, two of which were spent ranked in the nation's top-20. Under his leadership, Pace captured the 2015 ECAC Championship, and produced the first two All-Americans in program history. While coaching at Pace, Mike was also Director with the Yellow Jackets North Girls' Lacrosse Club.
Mike also spent more than a decade as a college athletic administrator, serving as Director of Athletics at Albertus Magnus College, and Notre Dame of Maryland University. He was also Associate Director of Athletics at Yeshiva University, and Assistant Director of Athletics/Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.
Mike began his career as an Assistant Coach at the Division III level, working at both Manhattanville College and Salisbury University.
A 1999 Pace University graduate, where he was a lacrosse goalie, Mike has a Masters in Sports Management from SUNY Cortland. He resides in Trumbull, CT where his favorite hobbies include rooting for New York Sports teams, cooking, and shuffling his 13 year-old son from hockey rink to hockey rink.
PHOEBE KNOWS THE RECRUITING PROCESS INSIDE AND OUT. AS A FORMER COLLEGE COACH, SHE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT COACHES ARE LOOKING FOR IN A STUDENT-ATHLETE.
Phoebe served for three years as the Assistant Field Hockey Coach at Slippery Rock University, a NCAA Division II University in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. At SRU, Phoebe was heavily involved with the recruitment of student-athletes. She was the primary contact person for all interested field hockey players; she evaluated hundreds of athletes and assisted the head coach with scholarship and roster spot decisions. Phoebe's role at Slippery Rock, as well as her previous experience as the head coach of Daniel Webster College (2012, 2013) has helped her develop into an expert in the college recruiting process.
Phoebe is an alumna of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Along with her coaching experience, Phoebe has an impressive playing resume. She was a four year starter at Smith College where her name still lingers in the record books for all-time points, goals, and shots on goal. She has traveled around the world to play competitive hockey with a year long stint in Brisbane, Australia on the Queensland University of Technology Hockey Club's Women's Division I team (2014) and a pair of three month stints in Dublin, Ireland with Old Alexandra Hockey Club's Division I and II teams (2015, 2018). Phoebe’s most recent international hockey trip was to Buenos Aires, Argentina in August of 2018.
Phoebe started Play College Field Hockey in March 2018. In 2021 Phoebe started hearing from more and more athletes in different sports as field hockey parents began referring her to friends outside of field hockey. In 2022 Phoebe launched Play College Sports to bring her recruiting expertise to all sports. Don't let contacting coaches, deciding which camps and tournaments to attend, or even narrowing down your search overwhelm you. Phoebe is here to help you with each step along the way.
