Hudson (Ohio) Coach Takes Reins at Mt. Union
from press release
ALLIANCE, Ohio – The University of Mount
Union has named Emily Fisher head women's lacrosse coach. Fisher
will be the first-ever women's lacrosse coach at Mount Union. The
newly-added women's team will be a club sport in 2011-12 and then
begin as a varsity sport in the 2012-13 academic year.
"We are all confident Emily is the right person to build our
women's lacrosse program," commented senior women's administrator
Sandy Douglas. "Between her playing and coaching experience, she is
uniquely qualified to lead our program."
Since 2009, Fisher has been coaching lacrosse at Hudson High School
in Hudson, Ohio. In 2009 and 2010, she served as an assistant coach
before taking over as the head coach this past season. In 2011,
Hudson was ranked No. 1 in Ohio during a season in which they went
14-3-1 and lost in the Ohio High School Girls Lacrosse Association
state semifinals.
Fisher was a three-year lacrosse letterwinner at The College of
Wooster and, as a junior in 2007, earned North Coast Athletic
Conference All-Tournament team honors as she helped lead the
Fighting Scots to the NCAC title and an NCAA Division III
Tournament appearance.
Off the field, she spent the past year as a reading intervention
specialist at Stanton Middle School in Kent and, prior to that,
held fifth and sixth grade teaching positions at Hawken Middle
School in Lyndhurst and Urban Community School in Cleveland.
"I look forward to meeting the opportunities and challenges of
building and coaching the women's lacrosse team at Mount Union,"
commented Fisher. "There is such a great energy on the campus and
the women's lacrosse program will compliment the superb facilities,
programs, faculty and staff. I look forward to getting
started."
A native of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, she attended Walsh Jesuit High
School, graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications from
Wooster then went on to earn a master's degree in education from
John Carroll University.
Her post-graduate studies are not her only connection to the Ohio
Athletic Conference as her father, Tim Baab, was the head men's
basketball coach at John Carroll for 11 seasons.
