Soccer, Girls: Varsity

Carly Barbato

Head Coach

Carly Barbato joined the Deerfield community from the University of New Hampshire, where she served in many roles during her tenure, including assistant women’s soccer coach, academic support coordinator for student-athletes, and assistant athletic director for compliance.  At Deerfield, Barbato works in the Athletics Office as the Sports Information Director and coaches the girls varsity soccer team.  Barbato has ten years combined coaching experience.  A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Barbato played collegiately at St. Lawrence University, starting at goalkeeper in all 66 games from 2003-06.  She helped captain the team in her senior season and earned All-Liberty League honorable mention in her junior and senior years.  She later earned her master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Loyola University Maryland, where she also served as an assistant women’s soccer coach - specifically coaching the goalkeepers.  She helped the Greyhounds to a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference title and automatic NCAA tournament appearance with Greyhound goalkeeper earning MAAC Defensive Player of the Year. She and her husband Brian live on campus in Field Dorm with their two sons, Charlie and Teddy.

Molly Nickerson

Assistant Coach

Molly came to Deerfield in 2018 after three years in the science department at The Hotchkiss School. She was a UPenn Teaching Fellow while at Hotchkiss, earning her M.S.Ed. before joining the Hotchkiss faculty full-time at the end of the Fellows program. At Deerfield, Molly teaches AP Biology and Biology I Accelerated, lives in the dorm, and is a member of the Varsity Soccer and JV Lacrosse coaching staffs. As a Brown University graduate with a degree in biology, Molly also found a love for running and rock climbing in college and trained for long distance races. As a Boston area native, she is looking forward to finding new routes to run and climb in the western half of the state.

Caroline Stedman

Assistant Coach

Caroline is entering her third season as the head coach of the Girls’ Varsity Basketball program after serving two years as the assistant to the Girls’ Varsity Basketball team. Before arriving at Deerfield, Caroline was a varsity standout for the women’s basketball program at Amherst College. Throughout her four years, Caroline helped lead Amherst to four “Final Four” appearances as well as the 2011 Division III National Championship. She left Amherst the most decorated player in program history, earning All-American honors during her sophomore, junior and senior campaigns and being named the Division III National Player of the Year her senior season.

Caroline is a native of Walpole, Massachusetts where she was a three-sport captain in soccer, basketball and lacrosse at Walpole High School. At Deerfield, she is also an Associate Director of Admission and dorm resident of Shumway.