Mount Holyoke College Director of Athletics Andrea Ricketts-Preston announced the appointment of Robin Hart, former head women's soccer coach at Cal State East Bay, as the Lyons' new assistant director of athletics prior to the 2024-25 academic year.

Hart is shifting her career direction into athletic administration, following a successful coaching career that began as an assistant coach at her alma mater, San Francisco State University, in 2012. Hart later served as assistant coach at Sonoma State University and as head coach at Menlo College before her appointment as head coach at Division II Cal State East Bay in Hayward, Calif., in 2018.

At Cal State East Bay, Hart raised her team's conference finish from 11th to seventh to third place within her first three seasons, and led the Pioneers to their first CCAA playoff berth and first CCAA tournament championship. At the same time, Hart created an academic plan to give student-athletes the necessary tools to succeed in the classroom, and her team's GPA rose as high as 3.74.

Hart shined as a student-athlete at San Francisco State, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. She won SFSU's Arete Award for the Most Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year in 2009 and was named to the CoSIDA First Team Academic All-District. She went on to earn a master's degree in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia University, Irvine in 2017.