Greensboro, NC (07/27/00) -- Guilford College Director of Athletics Mike Ketchum announced the appointment of Tara Caminiti-Raggett as the Quakers' head women's lacrosse coach Thursday. Caminiti-Raggett becomes Guilford's first full-time women's lacrosse coach and succeeds Forrest Collier, who filled the post on an interim basis for the 2000 season.

Caminiti-Raggett comes to Guilford following four years as the girls' soccer coach at Orange High School in Hillsborough, NC. A physical education teacher at Orange, she also coached the girls' basketball, varsity boys' soccer and junior varsity boys' soccer teams in her tenure. In 1997 the North Carolina Soccer Coaches' Association awarded Caminiti-Raggett a regional Coach of the Year Award for her work with the girls' soccer team. Orange's program grew from 15 to 50 participants in her tenure.

The Central Islip, NY, native played club lacrosse at St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, NY, before the school added a varsity team. Caminiti-Raggett picked up lacrosse coaching experience by assisting the boys' lacrosse team at Phillips Middle School in Chapel Hill, NC, and by working camps in and around Long Island, NY.

Caminiti-Raggett graduated from Stony Brook in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in social sciences. She lettered four seasons with the soccer team and helped the Division III Seawolves to the 1987 New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association championship. She began her coaching career in 1991 at her high school alma mater as St. Anthony's girls' soccer and basketball coach. She moved to North Carolina and coached Chapel Hill High School's girls' soccer team from 1994-96. The Tigers achieved a number-three national ranking in 1995.

Caminiti-Raggett lives in Mebane, NC, with her husband Christopher, and their one-year-old daughter, Casey. She inherits 13 letter winners from last season's 1-13 women's lacrosse team.