Coach Sallila begins her fifth year on the Worcester State bench in 2009 and fourth in the capacity of head coach after being promoted following the 2006 season. Sallila also spent a year as an assistant coach for the Worcester State women's lacrosse team in 2007. She began her coaching career as an assistant coach at Springfield College from 2001-2003 under head coach Dottie Potter Zenaty.

In September of 2009 Coach Sallila started serving in the position of Coaching Director of Region 2 for the futures program as she supervises coaches at 12 different sites around the state of Massachusetts. The program is apart of the US Field Hockey Association to regionally develop the best athletes for the purpose of identifying talented 'future' Olympic level athletes and to strengthen the level of field hockey throughout the United States.

Coach Sallila also represents the LEC and MASCAC on the ECAC Division III New England Field Hockey Tournament selection committee.

As a 2001 graduate of Springfield College where she was a standout sweeper for the Pride for four years, Coach Sallila helped lead Springfield to the NCAA Division III National Championship game where the Pride fell to national champion William Smith, 1-0. She was voted to the Championship All-Tournament Team following the tournament.

For her efforts in 2000, the team captain was named to the Astroturf/NFHCA Division III All-American First team, New England Regional East FirstTeam, NEWMAC Player of the Year as well as being selected as an ECAC First Team All-Star and chosen to play in the North/South Senior All-Star Game at Old Dominion. In addition to her exploits on the field, she was named to the NFHCA Division III National Academic Squad, NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team and granted a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

Coach Sallila's other collegiate accomplishments included an Astroturf/NFHCA Division III New England East First team selection as well as a Division III National Third team selection in 1999. She was also selected to the NFHCA Division III National Academic and NEWMAC All-Conference teams after that season. Also in 1999, the Sallila helped the Pride reach the Final Four with a fourth place finish. Sallila ended her career at Springfield with 28 goals, which is seventh on their all-time list and she was nominated to the NCAA Division III “Quarter-Century Team” in November of 2005.

In high school, Coach Sallila was a member of three-time Massachusetts State Champion Walpole High School field hockey team in 1994, 1995 and 1996 where she finished her career having never lost a high school game. She was an All-Scholastic selection for both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald her senior year. As an undergraduate Sallila helped out her alma mater as a summer league coach from 1997-2000 and as a summer field hockey coach from 1996-1998.