Bio

Smullen, who has been at Bridgeport for nearly 15 years, has held seven different positions within the athletic department.  Most recently, she was promoted to UB’s Senior Associate Athletic Director in the fall of 2021.

In this role, Smullen serves as Bridgeport’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator and is a member of the University’s CARE team. She also served as UB’s SAAC advisor up until this past fall.

Before her promotion, Smullen served as UB's Associate Athletic Director for Business since 2017.

Smullen’s wide-ranging resume also includes being appointed Bridgeport’s Interim Director of Athletics during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. She helped the department navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Smullen, who originally arrived in The Park City as the Purple Knights’ head women’s lacrosse coach, became the department’s Assistant Compliance Director and was named an Assistant Athletic Director/Senior Women’s Administrator in October of 2012.

In addition to her administrative duties, Smullen served as UB’s first-ever head women’s lacrosse coach in 2010 and continued through 2015. She returned to the sidelines as head coach for the 2017 and 2021 campaigns. She is still currently an assistant coach with the Purple Knights.

Smullen was named the ECC and ECAC Coach of the Year in 2015 after posting a 12-4 record in her final season.

Prior to Bridgeport, Smullen worked at Quinnipiac University where she served as assistant women’s lacrosse coach in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, the QU women’s lacrosse team won the Northeast Conference regular season title and had the most successful season in school history with an .812 winning percentage.

A native of West Haven, Conn. and a graduate of West Haven High School where she was a four-member of the soccer and lacrosse teams plus a team captain, Smullen earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Central Connecticut State University in 2006. 

During her time at CCSU, she was a four-year standout for the Blue Devils’ lacrosse team and served as a team captain.  In 2008, Smullen received her Master of Education degree from the University of New Haven.