Madison Heck began her duties as the Seahawks women's lacrosse program's 15th head coach in August 2025.
Heck joins the SMCM athletics department following two seasons in the same role at NCAA Division III Virginia Wesleyan University (Virginia Beach, Va.) of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
The Forked River, N.J., native made great strides in her brief time at Virginia Wesleyan. She led the Marlins to a 14-21 two-year record, which included a 3.5 game improvement as VWU went from 5-12 in Heck’s first season to 9-9 in 2025.
Heck also recruited and developed the first Virginia Wesleyan women’s lacrosse player to earn All-ODAC honors since 2019 as
Reese Morgenthaler made Second Team All-ODAC in 2025.
In May 2025, she attended the NCAA WeCoach Academy (WCA) Class #54 in Denver. The WCA, hosted in partnership between WeCOACH and the NCAA, is a multi-day growth and development program available to collegiate women coaches in all sports, collegiate levels, and years experience. WCA is designed for women coaches who are ready to elevate their holistic coaching effectiveness by learning advanced leadership skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success.
She also honed her coaching skills at Barnegat HS in her home state of New Jersey and with the Legacy Lacrosse and 3-Point Lacrosse Clubs.
Heck was a five-year NCAA Division II scholarship athlete at Georgian Court University and East Stroudsburg University. Heck garnered a First Team All-Region selection as well as three All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) awards, including First Team honors in 2019 and 2021, at Georgian Court.
The Lions captured the CACC Tournament Championship three times while posting a 25-0 league record between 2018 and 2021 for three straight CACC regular-season crowns. As a senior, she was named the 2021 CACC Tournament MVP after collecting 14 draw controls, 13 assists, four goals and three caused turnovers over two games for Georgian Court's third consecutive CACC title.
With East Stroudsburg, Heck picked up an NCAA Division II Women’s Lacrosse Championship Tournament runner-up trophy and was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team. The Warriors also won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship and the NCAA Atlantic Region Championship.
She graduated from Georgian Court in 2021 with a B.S. in Marketing before obtaining her M.S. in Management and Leadership/Organizational Behavior from East Stroudsburg in December 2022.
| SEASON |
SCHOOL |
OVERALL RECORD |
CONFERENCE RECORD |
POSTSEASON |
MILESTONE VICTORIES |
| 2024 |
Virginia Wesleyan |
5-12 |
3-6 |
ODAC First Round (No. 8 seed) |
First Career Win (W, 12-1 vs. Sweet Briar, 2/17/24) |
| 2025 |
Virginia Wesleyan |
9-9 |
5-5 |
ODAC First Round (No. 7 seed) |
|
| VWU TOTALS |
|
14-21 |
8-11 |
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Updated: August 19, 2025
