Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 9/10/18
Staff Report
There are 24 NCAA Division I women’s college programs in 2018-19 being coached by women that graduated from Philadelphia/South Jersey high schools. Meanwhile four are new to their schools as head coaches.
One newcomer is Jill DePetris Batcheller, an Archbishop Carroll grad who takes over at Drexel after spending 6 years as head coach at Bryant.
Lauren Morton, a Gwynedd Mercy Academy alum, is the new head coach at Boston University after serving as an assistant at Duke for 5 years.
Also, Chelsea Gamble (Moorestown) takes over at Oregon and fellow South Jersey native Michelle Tumolo (Clearview Regional) is the new head coach at Wagner.
The list of returning coaches is headed by Navy’s Cindy Timchal (Haverford High, West Chester University), who won eight National titles at Maryland and is the winningest coach of all time (509 victories). Now starting her 38th year as a head coach, she was inducted in 2012 year as a member of the US Lacrosse National Hall of Fame.
Princeton’s Chris Sailer (Haverford High) has won three National titles and was selected to the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2008. Sailer begins her 33rd season at Princeton and has guided the team to three NCAA championships, 11 national semifinal appearances, 25 NCAA tournament appearances and 14 Ivy League titles. Sailer ranks second in NCAA history among Division I coaches in victories behind Timchal, with 399 career wins, and has earned the national Coach of the Year award on three occasions, and has won six Mid-Atlantic regional Coach of the Year awards.
Temple’s Bonnie Rosen (Harriton) was inducted into the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2009 and the US Lacrosse National Hall of Fame in 2010.
Duke’s Kerstin Kimel (Haverford High) is the only coach the Blue Devils have had and in her 23 seasons at the helm she has compiled a 284-150 record, leading the Blue Devils to six national semifinals, four ACC regular season titles, an ACC Tournament Championship and 20 consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
Virginia’s Julie Myers (Harriton) has the rare distinction of being a player, an assistant coach and a head coach for Cavaliers teams that won the NCAA crown.
Amanda O’Leary (Spring-Ford, Temple) has taken Florida to the NCAA quarterfinals (four times) and semifinals after launching the program just 9 years ago. She has a career record of 316-109, including 16 years at Yale.
Cornell’s Jenny Graap (West Chester East) has built an Ivy League and national title contender in 21 years. She has posted a 201-135 record at Cornell and a 222-179 mark in 24 years as a head coach. She reached her 200th career win in dramatic fashion, defeating Penn, 11-10, on May 8, 2016, to win the Big Red’s first-ever Ivy League Tournament Championship and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Philly graduates coaching Division I lacrosse in 2017
Amy Bokker (Phoenixville grad, coach at Stanford)
Laura Brand-Sias (Radnor, Rutgers)
Laura Cook (Penncrest, Sacred Heart)
Jill DePetris Batcheller (Archbishop Carroll, Drexel)
Alison Fisher (Hatboro-Horsham, Lafayette)
Chelsea Gamble (Moorestown-NJ, Oregon)aQQQ
Jenny Graap (West Chester East, Cornell)
Heather Holt (Radnor, Old Dominion)
Alex Kahoe (Agnes Irwin, St. Joseph’s University)
Kerstin Kimel (Haverford High, Duke)
Kateri Linville (Moorestown-NJ, Delaware)
Katie McConnell (Holy Cross-NJ, Manhattan)
Lauren Morton (Gwynedd Mercy Academy, Boston University)
Julie Myers (Harriton, Virginia)
Amanda O’Leary (Spring-Ford, Florida)
Regina Oliver (Pottstown, Cincinnati)
Bonnie Rosen (Harriton, Temple)
Chelsie Rosiek (Wissahickon, St. Bonaventure)
Chris Sailer (Haverford High, Princeton)
Kristen Selvage (Boyertown, Coastal Carolina)
Cindy Timchal (Haverford High, Navy)
Michelle Tumolo (Clearview Regional-NJ, Wagner)
Lisa Vacca Evans (Downingtown High, Duquesne)
Julie Young (Germantown Academy, Villanova)
