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Barb Jordan

 
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Barb Jordan enters her 19th season as head field hockey coach and associate women’s lacrosse coach at Gettysburg College in 2020-21.

One of just four field hockey coaches at Gettysburg to reach 100 career wins, Jordan has guided the Bullets to a berth in the Centennial Conference playoffs nine times and an ECAC Division III championship in 2005. Gettysburg has won at least 10 games in nine of the past 15 seasons, including tying a program record with 17 victories in 2005.

The Bullets have also been ranked among the top-20 in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III national poll in seven of the last 13 seasons. In 2009, the team posted a record of 14-5, marking the second-most victories under Jordan’s tutelage. Gettysburg was ranked as high as 13th in the national poll that season and reached the semifinals of the CC Tournament.

As an assistant with the Gettysburg women’s lacrosse team, Jordan has played in integral role in one of the top programs in the nation. She has helped lead the team to NCAA Division III championships in 2011, 2017, and 2018. Over the last 16 years with Jordan on staff, Gettysburg is 293-49, has claimed nine conference championships, and has reached the NCAA Tournament every year. The team has made seven appearances in the national semifinals, including a runner-up finish in 2006. In 2011, Jordan was named NCAA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Association (IWLCA).

A 1986 graduate of Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and parks, Jordan came to Gettysburg after compiling a 47-40 record in six years as head coach of the Bucknell University women’s lacrosse team, including a 13-3 mark in 1997. Her 47 victories were the most by a Bucknell women’s lacrosse coach.

In addition, she spent five seasons as an assistant coach with the Bucknell field hockey program, helping guide that squad to a program-record 14 victories in 1999.

Before arriving in Lewisburg, Jordan spent one year as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Division I Vanderbilt University and six years as a physical education teacher and varsity girl’s lacrosse coach at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., serving as the chair of the physical education department from 1993-95.

At Penn State, Jordan was a three-time women's lacrosse All-American, as well as a three-time team most valuable player and team captain in 1985. She also earned varsity letters on the Nittany Lions' field hockey team in 1981 and 1982.