University of Denver Athletics

Megan Zeman is in her seventh season on the Denver women's lacrosse team's staff in 2024 and is in her third as the Director of Lacrosse Operations. The former Pioneer player first joined Liza Kelly's staff in 2018 as a Volunteer Assistant Coach.

In her time on staff, Denver has won three Big East Conference Tournament Championships and four regular-season titles. DU has also reached the NCAA Tournament each season and made its first final four in 2023.

During her first season with the Pioneers and leading the draw specialists, Zeman helped guide Maddie Baum to unparalleled program success.  The junior brought in 108 draw controls in 2018, the only Pioneer to break the 100-draw control threshold and set a school record for the most draw controls in a single season. Baum broke the record by 15 draw controls, and set the program record for single-game draw controls with 16 against Niagara on March 10. In that same game versus the Purple Eagles, the Pioneers won 24 of 31 draw controls, tying a school record for the most draw controls by a team.  On April 7, Baum went on to record 11 draw controls, which put her tied for fourth all-time for the number of draw controls in a game. 

In the first round of the NCAA Tournament versus High Point, Denver won the draw control battle 21-10, with the 21 draw controls tied for seventh all-time in program history. On the year, Denver had the edge in draw controls in 11 games, going 7-4 in those games, and averaged 12.05 draw controls a game. 

In 2021, Zeman helped lead the Pioneers to a 16-2 record, including a Big East regular season title, Big East Tournament title and a trip back to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In the draw game, graduate student Molly Little became the second player to reach 200 draw controls in the program's DI history. 

Zeman attended the University of Denver from 2007-10, appearing in 72 games for the Crimson and Gold. During her career, she scored 15 goals, had three assists, 67 ground balls, 47 draw controls and 49 caused turnovers.

In 2010, she started all 18 games as a defender and finished fifth on the team in caused turnovers with 17. Prior to that season, she played midfielder, where she was second on the team in ground balls in with 25 and fourth in caused turnover with 15 while starting all 18 games in 2009.

Her sophomore year, in 2008, Zeman was fourth on the team in draw controls with 21, led the team in face-off percentage at .582 (32-55) and was third in shot percentage at .615 (8-13) while playing in all 19 games that season and starting in nine. Her freshman year, she appeared in 17 games, scoring six goals on 13 shots, with a .769 shots on goal percentage (10-13). That season, she took six face-offs, winning five of them.

From Littleton, Colorado, Zeman attended Mullen High School, where she earned All-America and Rocky Mountain News "Best of the Best" honors as a sophomore and junior. A three-time all-conference honoree, Zeman was named to the all-state team her junior season.

Zeman graduated from Denver in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in communications.