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Susan Stuart

CO: Colorado Spring
 
Profile
Few people can match the impact that Susan Stuart has made on the sport of women’s lacrosse as a player, coach and administrator.

Under Stuart’s guidance, Colorado College has been one of the most successful Division III programs in the country, as well as the standard-bearer for teams from the West Region. During her 27-season tenure, the Tigers posted a 281-126-1 record and earned 11 appearances in the NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship.

At the Division III level, Stuart ranks sixth among active coaches with five or more seasons with 281 career victories and 22nd with a .690 winning percentage. All-time, for coaches 10 or more years, she is 12th in total wins and tied for 22nd in winning percentage. Across all NCAA Divisions, Stuart ranks 18th among active coaches and 23rd in all-time victories.

CC, which owns a 11-11 all-time postseason record, advanced to the national semifinals in 2005 after defeating a pair of nationally-ranked opponents – Union College and SUNY Cortland – at the regional level. Colorado College is still the only program from the West to advance to the final four.

The Tigers also posted the biggest comeback in the tournament's history in 2007 when they overcame a 9-0 deficit to defeat No. 18 Nazareth College, 12-11, in triple overtime in a regional semifinal at Salisbury University.

In 2019, Stuart was named West Region Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association for the seventh time after guiding the Tigers to an 18-2 record and the No. 1 ranking in the West Region by the NCAA.

CC began that season with a school-record 15-game winning streak, which included victories over the other five regionally-ranked teams in the West. The Tigers prevailed in road contests at No. 3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, No. 4 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, No. 5 Occidental College and No. 6 Hamline University. They also defeated No. 2 Illinois Wesleyan University at home.

The Tigers finished the 2019 campaign ranked No. 17 in the final IWLCA Division III Coaches Poll, which was the highest among the teams that did not advance to a regional final of the NCAA championship.

Under Stuart’s expert tutelage, Colorado College has produced 12 IWLCA All-Americans, the most recent of which was Eva King, who was a third-team selection in 2019. The Tigers also have a combined 39 all-region selections since 2009, which is the first year of the IWLCA archives.