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Gator Lacrosse - 6/23/07
Gators hire Yale's Amanda O'Leary as first women's lacrosse coach
Dave Curtis - Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
As a lacrosse player, Amanda O'Leary won a national championship and
two World Cups. As a collegiate head coach, she's won better than 70
percent of her games.
Together, those careers have earned her a spot in the National Lacrosse
Hall of Fame.
"She has achieved," Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley said, "everything
we hope to achieve at the University of Florida."
That, then, made it pretty easier for Foley and senior women's administrator
Lynda Tealer to tap O'Leary from about 25 applicants to become the
Gators' first women's lacrosse coach.
O'Leary, the head coach at Yale for the past 14 seasons, will spend the
next three years building a program that will begin varsity competition in
2010.
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