Alex Malatesta McMahan – Owner

In 2015, Alex left the practice of law to devote her career to empowering young women through field hockey at the Main Line Field Hockey Club (“Mayhem”). The path was paved ten years earlier when she graduated from Gwynedd Mercy Academy High to pursue a full athletic scholarship offer from the University of Richmond. And though law school seemed to mean the end of her field hockey career, a colleague shared one piece of advice that would change her life forever: “Do you what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” In 2019, Alex received USA Field Hockey’s “Grow the Game” Award Winner and opened the Mayhem Athletic Center in 2021. By Mayhem’s 10th anniversary, Mayhem successfully qualified for all three age divisions (U14, U16, U19) at the USFHA National Club Championship.

Alex returned to Gwynedd Mercy Academy to coach the program from 2015 to 2019; she lead the Monarchs to several appearances in the AA District Tournament, the Regional Championship, and the first Round of the PIAA State Play-offs, and has since been inducted into Gwynedd’s Athletic Hall of Fame. In 2023, Alex took the helm of the Radnor High School program alongside of the beloved Coach Margaretha Ehret. In their first season teaming-up together at Radnor High School, the pair took the Raptors to the semi-final round of the PIAA-AA State tournament, as well as to the District Championship, and through the best season the Raptors have ever enjoyed.

After graduating from law school in 2013, Alex married her college sweetheart, Connor, and practiced litigation for nearly two years before deciding to take on coaching and running the Main Line Field Hockey Club full-time. Alex and Connor now live in Villanova, PA, with their three children, Max, Maeve, and Mikey, and their two Australian Shepherds, Phantom & Misty.

Having had the opportunity to work with hundreds of families through travel teams, private lessons, clinics, and Mayhem training programs, Alex hasn’t had to “work” a day since.

“We live in a competitive society. In order to survive man has to compete. The greatest failure a man can have is the failure to compete. This can never be said of you. You’ve shown that you have got what it takes just by going out for the sport…. You may not have been the best, but you were on the team. You made an effort. You made a contribution.”

-Alex’s Dad, Coach & #1 Fan