I didn’t need this week to ebb away earlier than giving a tackle the retirement of Carol Cantele, the pinnacle coach of Gettysburg School.
Cantele has put collectively a powerful physique of labor over her three a long time on the helm of the Bullets, which incorporates three Division III nationwide championships, a lot of all-People, and election to the IWLCA Corridor of Recreation.
However I need to level to 2 features of her profession that put her within the firmament of collegiate girls’s lacrosse coaches.
First off, in 2013, she was employed as an assistant coach for the U.S. girls’s World Cup lacrosse staff, one thing which was unthinkable for a Division III coach. Cantele was introduced into the U.S. staff as a specialist to show zone protection. And boy, did it work.
The USA, in seven video games on the World Cup in Canada, yielded a mere 4 objectives per sport in a dominating march to the championships in Oshawa, taking down host staff Canada by a rating of 19-5 within the gold-medal match. A variety of this may be attributed to the defensive educating of Cantele.
The second side of her profession is that she will likely be leaving NCAA lacrosse third all-time in teaching victories. The one two coaches forward of her are Cindy Timchal (Northwestern/Maryland/Naval Academy) and Sharon Pfluger (Trenton State/School of New Jersey), who dominated the world of girls’s lacrosse within the Nineties and early 2000s.
This truth alone speaks to Cantele’s longevity, dedication to glorious, and success.
