Jenny Rizzo begins her first season on College Hill in 2021.
Rizzo was a standout player at Penn State from 2015-19, winning a Big Ten Tournament Championship in 2016 and leading her squad to a 12-6 record and an NCAA Tournament appearance as a senior captain in 2018, earning First-Team All-Big Ten honors. Following graduation, she played professionally at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, U.K. and Beeston Hockey Club in Beeston, U.K., leading Beeston to the club's first-ever Ladies Championship.
Since 2019, Rizzo has served under multiple coaching roles with the USA National Futures Program in State College, Pa., Penn State and Davidson in Davidson, N.C. During the 2019-20 srason at Davidson, she was the Volunteer Assistant Coach, charged with technical and tactical development for the team's goalkeepers, as well as leading training sessions for goalkeepers and the defensive unit.
Prior to coming to College Hill, Rizzo founded the Beeston Flyerz Hockey League in Nottingham, U.K. in August of 2020. She launched the Flyerz disability hockey training program at the Beeston Hockey Club, the first of its kind in the East Midlands region of the U.K. Rizzo planned sessions and coached youth players with Down Syndrome, Autism and other developmental disabilities.
Rizzo's undergraduate degree is in Biobehavioral Health with a minor in Global Health Studies from Penn State. In September of 2020, she earned her masters in Public Health from Nottingham Trent.
