Women's Lacrosse Release (2006) - Young Named Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach for Quakers - Guilford College
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YOUNG NAMED ASSISTANT WOMEN'S LACROSSE COACH FOR THE QUAKERS
Greensboro, NC (8/26/05) -- Guilford College Athletics Director Marion Kirby announced the addition of assistant women's lacrosse coach Susanna Young to the Quakers' staff Friday. Young also joins the Guilford College community as an Area Coordinator for Campus Life. The Cleveland Heights, OH, native will assist Quakers' head coach Matthew Grosso in his second year at the helm of Guilford's women's lacrosse team.
This
will be Young's first collegiate coaching job after three years as a club
coach for the Team Ohio high school squad from 2003-05. A 1998 graduate of
Cleveland Heights High School, she also assisted her alma mater's lacrosse team in
2004 and 2005.
Young, a standout midfielder for Coach Pat Genovese at William Smith, started all 61 games of her college career and helped the Herons to an impressive 54-7 mark over her four years. A captain of the 2002 team, Young helped William Smith to four consecutive appearances in postseason play, including trips to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 1999, 2000, and 2002. The team won the 2001 ECAC Mid-Atlantic Championship. The 1999 squad reached the national semifinals before falling to eventual champion Middlebury. In 2001 and 2002 she earned IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-New York Region, All-New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association and All-Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association honors. Young was also honored as a Verizon Academic All-American in 2001 and 2002. She graduated from William Smith in May of 2002 with a degree in studio art.
Young was a four-year starter for Coach Terry Saylor at Cleveland Heights. While playing for the Tigers, Young garnered All-Midwest Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association honors and was named First Team Northeast Ohio in 1997 and 1998. She was the team captain and MVP in 1998, and played for the Midwest/Great Lakes National Tournament high school team. Young concluded her high school career as an honorable mention All-American in 1998.