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Jenny Graap

 
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Jenny Graap returned to Cornell in 1997 with one goal in mind: to build the Big Red women’s lacrosse team into a championship contender.

With the only two Ivy League regular titles in school history, an appearance in the NCAA Final Four, five NCAA appearances, eight Ivy Tournament appearances and a title in 2016 and two ECAC crowns, she only continues to build on a legacy of more than two decades on the sideline at her alma mater.

Now entering her 24th year at the helm in 2019-20, Graap has been honored as the 2002 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Coach of the Year, the 2006 Inside Lacrosse Magazine Northeast Coach of the Year, the 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year and a three-time IWLCA Northeast Coach of the Year (2002, 2006, 2016), while developing the Big Red women’s lacrosse program into one of the most successful in the nation.

Graap, who accumulated 21 wins in four years at George Mason before taking the reigns at Cornell, has built an Ivy League and national title contender in her first two decades. She has posted a 212-144 record at Cornell and a 233-188 mark in 27 years as a head coach. She reached her 200th career win in dramatic fashion, defeating Penn, 11-10, on May 8, 2016, to win the Big Red's first-ever Ivy League Tournament Championship and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

In her tenure at Cornell, Graap has had 97 All-Ivy selections, 55 IWLCA All-Region selections, 18 IWLCA national All-Americans, three CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, four Ivy League Players of the Year and one national player of the year finalist. Her teams have reached postseason play 11 times since she returned to Cornell and have won at least 10 games nine times as well.