Tia Pydynowski begins her third season as an assistant field hockey coach at Salve Regina University in 2012.

Pydynowski graduated with Bryant University in May 2010 with a bachelor's in communications. She was a four-year member of the Bulldogs field hockey program who completed the LEADstrong leadership program. Pydynkowski was named to the Dean's List in the Spring of 2008.

She has spent time as a field hockey official for the Seacoast United Field Hockey Club (2003-07), a coach and counselor at the Warriors to Be Summer Camp (2004-07), and an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut Elite Field Hockey Camp (2008-09). In spring of 2010, she completed an internship as a production assistant with the Fox Providence Radio Show.