Kenzie Kent

Personal: Kent was named the assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Harvard on August 28, 2023, after spending the previous two years at Syracuse and also coaching at Harvard from 2020-21. Her greatest achievement was winning the Mary Garber Award as the 2016-17 ACC Athlete of the Year. Kent's mother, Jen, is an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Boston College and served on the Eagles’ staff during her college career. Her younger sister, Callahan, is a graduate assistant on the Boston College women’s lacrosse staff.

2023 Season: Kent earned 15th place in the final league standings after accumulating 1,058 leaderboard points. She compiled 105 MVP points to share fifth place in the league rankings with Izzy McMahon and Ally Kennedy. Kent tied for 10th in the league with Sam Fiedler by collecting 835 win points. Additionally, she was one of five players to register multiple two-point goals. Kent ranked fourth in the league with eight assists and started in all 12 games, scoring 14 goals, including a pair of two-point markers. She also notched 10 ground balls and 16 draw controls. Kent was a three-time Game MVP honoree and earned MVP 1 recognition against Team Read on July 29, after scoring three goals, including a two-point marker, with three draw controls. She opened Week Three with an MVP 1 performance against Team Moreno, scoring two goals with two assists en route to a season-high 206 leaderboard points. Kent closed Week Three with two goals, including a two-pointer, against Team Glynn to secure MVP 3 distinction. Furthermore, she posted 100 or more leaderboard points in five games.

2022 Season: Kent started in all 12 games and earned 1,010 leaderboard points. She ranked third in the league with 135 MVP points and second with 26 goals. She also had 33 points, which placed her fourth in the circuit. Kent was sixth in the league for ground balls (20) and draw controls (26). She scored at least one goal in 11 out of 12 games, including five goals against Team Moreno in Week Three. During Week Four, she scored 10 of her 26 goals, with at least three goals in each game. She finished the season with four goals on four shots against Team Apuzzo and opened Week Two with three goals against Team Moreno.

2021 Season: Kent collected 1,164 leaderboard points while appearing in 15 games. She tied for third in the league with seven game MVP selections. She was the third-leading scorer in Athletes Unlimited with 45 points, including a league-high 23 assists. She also tied for eighth in the circuit with 22 goals. Kent accumulated 32 ground balls, ranking her fifth in the league, with a season-high of six ground balls against Team Ohlmiller on August 8. She tied for ninth in Athletes Unlimited with 53 shots, including a season-high seven attempts on August 6 against Team Wood. She had seven games with 100 or more leaderboard points, including six of the first eight outings. Kent became the first player in league history to score an overtime goal with her game-winner against Team Warden on July 31. She set a league individual season high with eight points against Team Wood on August 6, scoring four goals with four assists. She also tallied two goals with three assists against Team Read on August 7, in addition to two ground balls and two caused turnovers.

International Experience: Kent made her United States National Team debut last summer and participated in the 2021 USA Lacrosse Fall Classic. She served as an alternate on Team USA's 2022 World Championship Gold medal squad. She also competed for the Team USA Under-18 ice hockey team and earned a pair of Silver medals at the IIHF Under-18 World Championship. In 2014, she served as captain for the USA U-18 Select Team. 

Other Professional Experience: Kent spent two seasons with the New England Command of the Women's Professional Lacrosse League. During the 2019 campaign, she scored six goals with three assists and six ground balls.

At Boston College: Kent was a two-sport athlete at Boston College, competing on the lacrosse and ice hockey teams. She accumulated 131 goals with a school-record 133 assists during her lacrosse career from 2015-2019. She started in 48 out of 53 career games for the Eagles and also registered 60 ground balls with 76 draw controls. Kent was a nominee for the 2019 Tewaaraton Award and earned First-Team IWLCA All-America recognition as a senior. She was a three-time IWLCA All-Region pick and a two-time selection on the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team, including being named the 2017 Most Outstanding Player. Kent earned First-Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference recognition as a sophomore and fifth-year senior. She tied for fifth in program history with 255 career points and tallied 127 points during her final season at Boston College, the second-highest mark in school history. She holds the school record with 75 assists during the 2019 campaign. Kent also played a school-record 157 games for the Eagles' ice hockey team, scoring 40 goals with 98 assists. She served as the Eagles' captain during the 2017-18 ice hockey season and the 2019 lacrosse season. She led the Eagles to three NCAA Tournament appearances in ice hockey.