After playing for the program from 2014-2017, Mikayla Panneton will return to the field hockey program in 2018 as a volunteer assistant coach. 

Panneton appeared in 50 career games for the Warriors over four years, notching 10 career points on four goals and two assists. She enjoyed a career season as a senior in 2017, starting in a career-high 17 games. She set career bests with three goals and seven points, while attempting 20 shots. Panneton scored in consecutive games and in three of the Warriors' last seven games, overall. 

During her time as a player, the program won 45 games, including a 16-win campaign in 2015 that saw the Warriors reach that national championship game for the first time in program history. The Warriors made the postseason in each of her final three years as a player, and posted a record over .500 in each campaign. 

The Andover, Mass. native graduated from Merrimack in the spring of 2018 as a health science major.