COLCHESTER, Vt. - We take a glance at a sampling of student-athlete alumni who continue making headlines even after their time on campus.
   
Alexis Sherard '93 was named Liberty (Va.) University women's basketball head coach in August after spending more than 25 years as a men's and women's college assistant coach, including the prior 18 at Liberty. The Lady Flames made eight NCAA Division I Tournament appearances during his time as an assistant mentor. Liberty is 8-5 during Sherard's debut season at the helm, earning the new coach his inaugural victory on Nov. 7 against Frostburg State University. Sherard capped four years on the Saint Michael's men's basketball team by serving as a captain in 1992-93 before returning as an assistant coach for the next two seasons.
   
Women's basketball alumna Jessica (Hanchette) Neuweiler '04 picked up her 100th career win as a high school basketball head coach in late December. Neuweiler is in her fourth year guiding the North Haven (Conn.) High School varsity girls following a stint at Plainville High School, where she turned a 3-17 squad upon her arrival into a top 10 team in the Central Connecticut Conference. North Haven is 6-1 this winter after a victory on Tuesday night, and 52-21 overall under Neuweiler's tutelage.
   
Women's ice hockey alumna Michelle Roach '07 was named head coach of the Arlington (Mass.) Catholic High School varsity girls' ice hockey program over the summer; the Cougars are off to a 2-3-1 start while fielding a team that includes eighth graders. For the prior decade, Roach led the Peabody Veterans Memorial High School varsity girls' ice hockey program to a 139-59-13 record and five Northeastern Conference titles while garnering numerous coach of the year accolades. Roach was inducted into the Saint Mary's (Lynn, Mass.) High School Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016.
   
Lindsay Phenix '14, a senior aquarist at the New England Aquarium in Boston, is featured in a recent New England Aquarium commercial underwater in full scuba diving gear. A member of the aquarium staff since 2017, the same year she completed a master's degree in marine biology and biological oceanography from Boston University, Phenix was a women's volleyball captain as a senior and remains in the program's career top 10 in both total blocks (155) and blocking assists (106).
   
Former men's basketball captain Jontai Williams '22 is amid his first season as a women's basketball assistant coach at Rhode Island College, helping the Anchorwomen begin the year 9-2. During a career that was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the point guard handed out 122 assists in 61 contests as a Purple Knight.
   
Two-year Nordic skiing captain Grace Erholtz '23 has been chosen by U.S. Biathlon as a coach for the Youth and Junior World Championships in Germany in February and March, and is among eight U.S. Biathlon Women's Coaching Initiative participants for 2025-26, joining Saint Michael's Nordic skiing head coach Annika Martell. She is also among five Trail to Gold coaching grant recipients, and recently worked with the U.S. Ski Team in Italy. Erholtz, who also ran cross country as an undergrad, earned the prestigious George "Doc" Jacobs Award and Roger F. Keleher '15 Award during the 2023 Block 'M' Awards Banquet. Since graduating, she was a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wyoming, where she helped the men's team win the 2025 United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) Championship and the women place second. Erholtz is currently a Nordic skiing assistant coach at Southwest High School in her native Minnesota.
   
Two-time All-America Alpine skier Helene Kristoffersen '25 recently joined Green Mountain Valley School as the U18 Alpine Girls' Coach and a science instructor. The three-time captain and two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) giant slalom points champion, also a 2025 Saint Michael's Outstanding Senior Student-Athlete Award winner, follows in a long line of Alpine skiing alums who have broken into coaching.
 
Former captain Mary Joyce '16 is in her seventh year as an assistant coach at the University of Utah, which has won four NCAA Championships and garnered 32 individual All-America accolades during her tenure. Amber McHugh '03, captain of both Alpine skiing and women's soccer as an undergrad, is the fourth-year Alpine skiing head coach at Williams College, which sent two qualifiers to the 2025 NCAA Championship. Former captain Nathan Bryant '12 is back for another year as the U.S. Alpine Ski Team World Cup men's tech coach.
 
Jamie Bender '17, whose three-year stint as a Saint Michael's assistant coach began during his senior year, is the U16 Men's Alpine coach at Killington Mountain School following stops at Mount Mansfield Academy and Green Mountain Valley School. Andrew Keating '13 and Ian Hanbury '14 have both coached in Vail, Colo., and are currently coaching at Apex2100 in France. Former captain Austin Lilley '22 was recently hired as a police officer in Tinton Falls, N.J., after coaching at Burke Mountain Academy and Stratton Mountain School.