Keene State College

Already inducted into the Keene State Hall of Fame for her accomplishments on the field, Lyons took over the Owl program in 1992, immediately taking the Owls to the NCAA tournament in her first season.

When Keene State moved into NCAA Division III and the Little East Conference in 1997, the Owls kept on rolling, including a 2002 season that saw the Owls rank as high as 12th in the nation in the NSCAALyons Coaching 2 Coaches Poll, and finish with a perfect 7-0 record in LEC play.   Facing Western Connecticut State in the LEC tournament game, KSC overcame a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2 on a goal from Jenna Jezierski with 53 seconds remaining.  The Owls then took down nationally ranked No. 17 Tufts 1-0 in the second round before falling to No. 4 Wheaton 3-1 on a rain soaked field to finish the season 20-3-1.  

Two years later, the Owls were LEC Champions again, rolling past Eastern Connecticut State 3-0 in the title game.  KSC knocked off Worcester State, 1-0, in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, before bowing out to No. 12 Middlebury.

The Owls returned to the NCAA tournament again in 2013, with a 1-0 win over Eastern Connecticut State in the LEC championship game, going on to beat Haverford in the first round of the tournament and facing eventual national runner-up Williams College in the second round.

The next year, KSC repeated as champions, winning penalty shootouts over WestConn in the semifinals and UMass Boston in the final to become the lowest seeded team to ever win the LEC women's soccer championship.

Lyons has been named Little East Conference Coach of the Year seven times (1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2013, and 2019), and has coached 113 All-LEC Players.  Amy Zombeck and Jessica Williams were LEC Players of the Year on her watch, while Erin Lester and Katie Bradford were named LEC Offensive Players of the Year.  Beth Vachon, Megan Dempsey, Kelsie Bailey, and Nicole De Almeida were all named the LEC Defensive Player of the Year, with Vachon and De Almeida both winning the award twice.   Breanne Lucey, Molly Brunelle, Bradford, Patricia Norton, and De Almeida were all named the conference's Rookie of the Year.