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Head Coach Laurie Anthony, 1st year 570-208-5900, ext. 5443 laurieanthony@kings.edu Laurie Anthony was hired as King's new head women's lacrosse coach in July of 2007. Coach Anthony brings with her a successful background in lacrosse. A 2006 graduate of Drew University, Anthony was a four-year varsity player, defensive midfielder, and served as a team captain as a junior and senior. She was named to the All-Middle Atlantic Conference team in 2005 and 2006 while earning IWLCA Regional All-American honors both seasons. Additionally, she was selected to play in the 2006 IWLCA North-South Senior All-Star Game. Anthony was twice named the Middle Atlantic Conference "Player of the Week". As a sophomore, she helped Drew to a Middle Atlantic Conference championship in 2005 along with an Eastern College Athletic Conference title in 2004. She was also a four-year member of the Drew women's soccer team. Coach Anthony has also taught lacrosse and soccer at numerous camps and clinics since 2002. "We are excited to have Laurie join the King's athletic department," Ish stated. "She is young, dynamic, and was an accomplished player possessing a great deal of experience in the sport. Laurie is someone who we believe has the ability to not only effectively teach the sport, but will bring an enthusiasm to our developing women's lacrosse program." Anthony earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew in 2006 with degree in Political Science while adding a minor in Women's Studies. She was a two-time member of the Dean's List and earned the Drew Recognition Award all four years.  She was also a member of the Drew Student-Athlete Advisory Committee during the 2005-06 year. Coach Anthony comes to King's after spending the past year as the head lacrosse coach, physical education teacher, and personal health and safety education teacher at Haileybury College, a private school in Hertford Heath, England. She directed the lacrosse program, teaching the sport to girls ranging from 11-to-18 years of age, coaching three teams in the process. "After coming back from England I realized that I wanted to coach at the collegiate level," Anthony stated. "Being the women's lacrosse coach at King's allows me to reach this goal. In addition, this position gives me the opportunity to lend my knowledge and skills of lacrosse to a program that is continuing to improve and grow each year that passes. My short term goals for women's lacrosse at King's are to improve the overall skills of the players and hope that each person that participates enjoys their time on the team. My long term goals are to become a competitive element in the conference and to have each player take away skills that they can use for the rest of their lives." Interested in being recruited by Coach Anthony?   Please fill out the women's lacrosse student-athlete recruiting form by clicking on the following link: Prospective Athletes Recruiting Form   Assistant Coach Erica Kovats, 1st year 570-208-5900, ext. 5443 ericakovats@kings.edu Erica Kovats enters her first season as an assistant coach with her alma-mater.  Kovats was a three-year member of the Lady Monarch lacrosse squad where she played both offense and defense during her career. As a freshman in 2004, Kovats scored eight points on seven goals and one assist with 24 ground balls. After sitting out a year, she returned to the program in 2006 where she scored 16 points on 14 goals and two assists with nine ground balls as a junior. As a senior, Kovats scored 13 points on 12 goals and one assist while totaling 11 ground balls.  In her three year career, she totaled 37 points on 33 goals and four assists with 44 ground balls. In her junior year in 2006, she helped King's to the Middle Atlantic Conference playoffs as the team finished with a 9-6 mark. She was also a fine student and graduated from King's in 2007 with a 3.28 GPA in Marketing. Kovats was also honored as an All-MAC All-Academic selection.

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