Former Blue Jay Leads Wheelock Women
from press release
BOSTON -- Wheelock College has hired Elizabeth
Sullivan as its first women's lacrosse head coach, Director of
Athletics and Sport-Based Initiatives Diana Cutaia announced on
Tuesday. An experienced lacrosse coach and instructor, Sullivan
played collegiately for a Division I program at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
"I am very much looking forward to joining the Wheelock community,"
said Sullivan, whose squad begins its first varsity campaign during
the spring. "I know that there will be a lot of excitement around
this inaugural season, and it will be great to be a part of that.
I'm excited to build a roster of women who will comprise the
college's first women's lacrosse team."
Sullivan provides a strong background as a lacrosse instructor,
having coached for four years on Long Island at the MVP Lacrosse
Camp for girls between sixth and 12th grade and working for two
years at a girls' lacrosse camp at her alma mater, Kellenberg
Memorial High School, in Uniondale, N.Y. In the Boston area,
Sullivan has coached seventh and eighth graders through Brookline
Youth Lacrosse.
"What really struck me with Elizabeth is that her philosophy is so
in line with ours," said Cutaia. "In addition to wanting her
student-athletes to be successful on the field, she has a genuine
commitment to them being whole people. She also has a remarkable
lacrosse background, from playing on Long Island, a hotbed of
lacrosse, to playing at Johns Hopkins, and has translated that
success to her professional career. Elizabeth will be a tremendous
role model to our student-athletes."
A three-year member of the Blue Jays, Sullivan helped the squad
make the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament
title game each season, winning the championship in 2001. Johns
Hopkins posted a 33-20 mark during the defender's career. Sullivan,
a Dean's List student who graduated with a degree in political
science in 2003, earned a Juris Doctor degree at Boston's New
England Law in 2007 after also drawing Dean's List honors.
