Maddie Passarella joined the Wittenberg University field hockey coaching staff in 2024. She serves as the team's goalkeepers coach.

A 2019 graduate of Miami University, Passarella also obtained her master's degree from Miami in 2021. As a student-athlete in the RedHawks' program, Passarella was named first-team All-Mid-American Conference in 2017 and second-team All-MAC in 2018. She also earned MAC All-Tournament team honors in 2017 after earning MAC Player of the Week twice during that season. In 2018, Passarella's goals against average of 1.05 ranked sixth in the nation as she recorded nine shutouts and two shared shutouts, including one in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament against nationally ranked Boston University. Her GAA in 2018 ranks sixth in program history, and she also ranks second in shutouts for a season.