🐾 COACH Mentoring: Powered by Panthers. Driven by Purpose. 


Giving Back Through Time, Talent, and Presence

The COACH Mentoring Program is a longstanding Hanover tradition that connects alumni and students through meaningful relationships and shared experience. COACH offers alumni a powerful way to give back—not just through financial support, but through time, talent, and presence.

Now powered by HanoverConnect, mentoring is easier, more flexible, and designed to fit your life—wherever you are.

🤝 Why COACH Matters

As a COACH mentor, you support the next generation of Panthers by:

  • Sharing professional and personal experience
  • Offering guidance that builds confidence and clarity
  • Supporting holistic growth—from careers to work-life balance
  • Strengthening the value of a Hanover education through connection

Even one conversation can make a difference.

✨ Mentoring Made Simple with HanoverConnect

HanoverConnect allows alumni to mentor in ways that feel manageable and meaningful. As a mentor, you can:

  • Create or update a mentor profile with interests and availability
  • Choose how you want to engage (career chats, résumé reviews, identity-based mentoring, and more)
  • Message students directly through the platform
  • Access mentoring resources and stay organized with match updates and reminders

You set the level of involvement—HanoverConnect supports the connection.

🎓 How Alumni Support Students

Through COACH, mentors may connect with students for:

  • 💼 Career exploration and professional development
  • 📝 One-time needs like résumé reviews or mock interviews
  • 🌈 Identity-based mentoring (LGBTQIA+, multicultural, international students, student-athletes)
  • 🎯 Guidance tied to majors, class year, or post-graduate goals
✅ Get Started or Reconnect

Interested in becoming a COACH mentor?
Sign up for an account today, and our team will follow up with the next steps.

Already a COACH mentor?
Log in to HanoverConnect to review or update your profile.

Please note:
HanoverConnect access is currently available to active COACH mentors and G.O.L.D.S. (Graduates of the Last Decade). We are in the process of introducing this to the broader alumni base soon.

A Shared Mission

COACH reflects Hanover College’s commitment to lifelong learning, service, and community. By giving your time and talent and by being present, you help shape the future—one Panther at a time.

Program Contacts
  • Jenny Siepler Moss ’06, Executive Director, Levett Career Center
  • Christy Hughes, Director of Alumni Relations

📧 coachmentoring@hanover.edu

Testimonials

We discuss goals every Monday afternoon to set for the upcoming week and celebrate outstanding accomplishments. Having a mentor has been helpful. Lauren has given me advice on all sorts of things, such as how to approach a roommate about various topics, how to make it through quarantine (and share my experience with the school), how to speak up to a professor, and, most importantly, finding time to give myself a break and relax. One of my biggest goals this year was expanding my social network, and Lauren has helped me find opportunities to take advantage of, as well as connect me with people she knows. She has also helped me draft emails to different people, making me feel confident in the message I was sending. Ultimately, she has been exceptional at lending a listening ear when I needed to rant about chemistry and providing a different point of view to see the situation.

Last semester has been by far my most enjoyable semester during my time here at Hanover. Partly because I loved my classes, but mainly because my mentor was there to help me feel and act my best. We plan to meet face-to-face in June and possibly again in October, which I am deeply excited about.

- Maddie Mann '23

Questions

Do you have any questions or are interested in learning more? Send an email to coachmentoring@hanover.edu.

 

Jenny Siepler Moss '06
Executive Director 
Levett Career Center

Christy Hughes
Director
Alumni Relations​

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