Kara Cecchini joined the University of Maine staff in the fall of 2025.
Prior to joining the Black Bears, Cecchini served as strength & conditioning coach for Bando Performance in Woburn, Mass. where she designed and implemented customized strength and conditioning programs for college, high school, and middle school athletes. Cecchini served in this role from December 2023 through the summer of 2025.
For one season (2024-25), she was a strength and conditioning graduate fellow at Merrimack College, working closing with the Warriors' men's and women's ice hockey, track & field, golf, and women's bowling programs.
Cecchini fulfilled sports performance internship roles with men's hockey at UMass Lowell, men's hockey and baseball at UMass, and men's and women's ice hockey at Boston University.
Cecchini earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from UMass before obtaining her Master of Science in Exercise and Sports Science from Merrimack College.
