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Kerri Whitaker

 
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Kerri Whitaker has spent nine seasons on the sideline as an assistant coach for Penn Women's Lacrosse.

Since joining the coaching staff, Whitaker has been a part of seven Ivy League championship teams, two Ivy League Tournament championship teams and nine NCAA Tournament appearances.

Working primarily with the attack, Whitaker has guided Penn players to 14 of the top 23 single-season goal-scoring marks in program history since arriving at Penn in 2011.

The Quakers have posted the top-two goal-scoring marks in program history as a team in 2018 and 2019, including a record 261 in 2018. Offensively, Gabby Rosenzweig set the single-season Penn record in both points (98) and assists (63) in 2019, joined by midfielder Erin Barry as an IWLCA All-American.

In 2018, All-American Gabby Rosenzweig tied the program record with 85 points, while freshman Zoe Belodeau set a new program record for goals (45), assists (35) and points (80) in a season by a rookie. 2018 produced three of the top goal-scoring seasons in program history, led by All-American Erin Barry whose 51 goals were third-most ever in a season by a Quaker. Five of Penn’s nine All-Ivy selections in 2018 played key roles in the attacking unit.

In 2017, Whitaker worked with a pair of All-Ivy attackers in first-team All-Ivy selection Emily Rogers-Healion and second-team All-Ivy choice Caroline Cummings.

The 2016 season saw the Quakers post one of the most dangerous attack groups in the nation led by Nina Corcoran - who set Penn and Ivy League records for assists (58) in a season while also setting a new Penn record for points in a single season with 85 en route to a Tewaaraton Award nomination, second-team All-American honors, and an Ivy League Attacker of the Year selection.

In 2015, Whitaker worked with Penn's dynamic duo of Tory Bensen (64 points) and Nina Corcoran (61 points) who posted the fifth and sixth highest single-season point totals in program history. Bensen's 58 goals in 2015 tied Penn's single-season record while Corcoran's 40 assists at the time set a new program record.

Whitaker coached her first Ivy League Attacker of the Year during 2015 in Tory Bensen. Bensen also became the second offensive player to earn All-American honors under Whitaker with her second team selection, joining Erin Brennan (2011).

Whitaker has had four members of her attacking group named IWLCA All-American, 11 members of Penn's attacking unit named All-Region and 26 named All-Ivy.