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Lyndsey Boswell

 
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Boswell was hired in 2009 as HPU's 1st head women’s lacrosse coach & has been the architect of the Panthers’ swift rise to a championship-winning league power.

Boswell has led the Panthers to seven conference championships in the program’s first nine seasons (2011-14, 2017-19) and guided HPU to the program’s first two NCAA Tournament appearances in 2013 and 2014.

Then came 2017 and 2018, which has been the best two-year stretch to date. The Panthers have gone 33-7 over the two years, have gone undefeated against conference competition on the way to Big South regular season and tournament championships in both seasons.

2019 proved to be another dominant year for Boswell and her staff, picking up right where they left off the season prior. HPU extended their conference unbeaten streak to 26 games en route to their third straight Big South regular season and tournament championships.

Eight panthers earned All-Big South conference honors including Abby Hormes, who was voted the league’s Player of the Year and Meredith Chapman, who was named Big South Defensive Player of the Year. Chapman also earned the Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.

In 2018, Boswell guided the Panthers to a school-record 17 wins, including a school-record tying 16 consecutive wins. The Purple & White defeated a pair of ACC schools, No. 21 Notre Dame (13-7) and No. 19 Duke (16-12) and earned the program's fourth NCAA Tournament bid. During the season, the Panthers were tabbed as high at 16th in the national rankings, the best mark of any HPU program.

Nine Panthers earned All-Big South honors, including Erica Perrotta, who was named Big South Defensive Player of the Year, and Abby Hormes, who was the league's Freshman of the Year. Perrotta was honored as the program's first IWLCA All-Region Team member and as the first All-American when she named an Inside Lacrosse Media All-America Honorable Mention. To add to the accolades, Boswel was named Big South Coach of the Year.

In 2017, Boswell led the Panthers to a 16-4 record and High Point University’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win in any sport with a 21-15 victory over No. 18 Towson. 2017 also included a school-record 16 consecutive victories, the Big South regular season title with an undefeated 7-0 record and a 19-5 win over Campbell in the Big South Championship final.

The 2017 Panthers had eight all-conference selections, including Samantha Brown (offensive) and Christina Del Sesto (defensive), who earned Big South Player of the Year honors.