n Thursday, Oct. 3, Director of Athletics and Physical Education Nancy Latimore announced that former Women’s Lacrosse Head Coach Rob Brooks resigned from his position for personal reasons.
Brooks began his career as Head Coach at Elizabethtown College last September after four seasons of coaching at Marymount University. He led the women’s lacrosse team to a second consecutive Commonwealth Conference Championship and a 12-7 overall record. The Blue Jays conquered three nationally-ranked teams while traveling, including No. 19 Messiah College and No. 15 Stevenson University, both of which they beat to claim the Conference title. Last year’s team also broke seven team records throughout the season.
According to Latimore, the search for a new women’s lacrosse head coach is to be initiated later in October. Until the vacancy is filled, Danielle Seling has been named interim women’s lacrosse coach. “Coach Seling served as assistant coach at Etown from 2008 to 2010, helping lead the program to its first ever conference championship and the second round of the NCAA Championship,” Latimore explained.
In her two seasons at Etown coaching under former Women’s Lacrosse Head Coach Mike Faith, Seling helped the women’s lacrosse team to achieve an overall record of 32-8. Seling, originally from Whiteford, Md., worked as the head coach at Susquehannock High School from 2010 to 2012.
Seling also contributed to her alma mater, York College, later in 2012 as assistant coach.
The College has also named Linda Delaney the interim assistant women’s lacrosse coach until the head coach position is filled. According to Latimore, Delaney was a three-time all-conference lacrosse player and two-time All-American field hockey player at Lynchburg College.”[She] served previously as assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Washington & Lee University and as assistant lacrosse coach at Lynchburg College.” Additionally, she has been an assistant field hockey coach at Gwynedd-Mercy College since August of 2012.
Seling and Delaney “will lead the team’s five-week fall season, mentor the student-athletes on the team and handle recruiting duties while the College conducts a search for a permanent head women’s lacrosse coach,” Latimore said. Eleven seniors graduated from last year’s program, causing the team to be relatively small compared to previous years. The team will continue to have regular spring season practices starting in January to train for its first appearance in the Landmark Conference.
Latimore is encouraging students who are considering playing for the women’s lacrosse team to contact Seling and Delaney as soon as possible for details about the upcoming season.
