Lacrosse
Cockerille, Sierra
Sierra Cockerille
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- cockerilles25@ecu.edu
Sierra Cockerille was named East Carolina lacrosse assistant coach on August 19, 2025.
Cockerille joins the Pirates after two seasons at UMBC where she helped the Retrievers earned consecutive berths in the American East Conference Championships. During her two seasons, she helped guide six players to First Team All-Conference honors with four more earning Second Team nods. In 2025, the Retrievers earned two major awards with Katana Nelson and Emily Knapp earning Midfielder of the Year and Rookie of the Year nods.Prior to UMBC, Cockerille concluded a decorated career as a midfielder at Syracuse. With the Orange, she finished with 76 career goals and 53 career assists in 73 games played. In her final season in 2023, the Baltimore native not only earned All-America recognition from both the IWLCA (third team) and Inside Lacrosse (honorable mention), but she helped her team to the NCAA Final Four where they fell in a tight battle with Boston college.
Outside of her collegiate career, Cockerille is a member of the Haudenosaunee Women's National Team with which she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Sixes Cup in 2021. In 2023 she and the Haudenosaunee Nationals won the PALA Sixes Cup in Jamaica. Most recently, in 2025 Cockerille helped the team to a bronze medal finish at the Pan-American Women's Lacrosse Championship where she was coached by a staff which included Dipper serving as an assistant coach.
Cockerille earned her undergraduate degree in 2022 in Human Development and Family Science.
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Cockerille joins the Pirates after two seasons at UMBC where she helped the Retrievers earned consecutive berths in the American East Conference Championships. During her two seasons, she helped guide six players to First Team All-Conference honors with four more earning Second Team nods. In 2025, the Retrievers earned two major awards with Katana Nelson and Emily Knapp earning Midfielder of the Year and Rookie of the Year nods.Prior to UMBC, Cockerille concluded a decorated career as a midfielder at Syracuse. With the Orange, she finished with 76 career goals and 53 career assists in 73 games played. In her final season in 2023, the Baltimore native not only earned All-America recognition from both the IWLCA (third team) and Inside Lacrosse (honorable mention), but she helped her team to the NCAA Final Four where they fell in a tight battle with Boston college.
Outside of her collegiate career, Cockerille is a member of the Haudenosaunee Women's National Team with which she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Sixes Cup in 2021. In 2023 she and the Haudenosaunee Nationals won the PALA Sixes Cup in Jamaica. Most recently, in 2025 Cockerille helped the team to a bronze medal finish at the Pan-American Women's Lacrosse Championship where she was coached by a staff which included Dipper serving as an assistant coach.
Cockerille earned her undergraduate degree in 2022 in Human Development and Family Science.
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