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Danielle Gallagher is a household name within the lacrosse world. She graduated from The College of William and Mary , where she finished her collegiate career as a two-time first team All-American. The captain of her squad both her junior and senior year, she landed herself in the school’s record books, ending her tremendous career as W&M’s third all-time leading points scorer and third in all-time assists.
Post W&M, Gallagher served as a member of the U.S. Elite Women’s Lacrosse team, beginning in 1987. She has participated in four World Cup events, three of which resulted in World Cup Championships (1993 Edinburgh, Scotland; 1997 Edogawa, Japan; and 2001 High Wycombe, England), and one of which the U.S. took home the Silver (2005 Annapolis, MD). Gallagher was also a member of the elite US National Team touring squads in 1996 and 2000, where she traveled to England, Scotland, Wales, and Australia, respectively.
An active member of the lacrosse community, Gallagher has dedicated her time to camps and clinics all over the country, helping spread her knowledge and skill to people all over the United States. She also served as the first high school coach for Steamboat Springs High School in 1993, taking them all the way to the playoffs in their first year of existence.
In 1998, Danielle took on a coaching role at Colorado College, where she led them to their first NCAA appearance. Continuing that theme, in 2000, she took on the Assistant Coach position at the University of Notre Dame. While there, the team became nationally ranked for the first time in its history, reaching 8th, and also made their first NCAA playoff appearance, losing to the eventual National Champions.
Gallagher has been accepted as one of the powerhouses in the lacrosse world and has been acknowledged by many for her accolades. She has been inducted into the Manhasset High School Hall of Fame, The College of William and Mary’s Hall of Fame, Long Island Metropolitan Hall of Fame and the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006.
Danielle Gallagher continues to share her knowledge and love of lacrosse with the world, as she is the founder, President, and Director of Liberty Lacrosse and Black Diamond Lacrosse.
Brandy has been involved with lacrosse for the past 19 years, as a player and a coach. She helped start the girl's lacrosse program at St. Mary's HS, Manhasset. In the 4 years that Brandy coached at St. Mary's she achieved 4 state final appearances. Brandy then went on to coach the junior varsity team at Manhasset HS for 4 years. For the past 5 years she been the assistant varsity lacrosse coach at Manhasset, and has been instrumental in Manhasset's conference and league championships. Brandy was an All- State and All-County player and a Two Time State Champion at Manhasset HS.
Pam was a two time All-County player, team MVP, and team
captain for Bayshore HS. She was also selected to the NY
schoolgirl teams in both her junior and senior years at
Bayshore. Pam attended Old Dominion University where she was
selected as a CAA All-Conference player, served as the team
captain and was also named the team MVP.
Pam holds a Masters degree in Health Education from
Hofstra University and is in her sixth year teaching health
and physical education at Herricks Middle School. She is
also entering her sixth season as the Girls Varsity Lacrosse
coach for Herricks.
Pam has been working as a Liberty coach year round since
it was founded in 2003 . She is looking forward to another
great summer coaching the highly competitive senior team.
Kim graduated from Long Island University CW Post in 2002, where she
was a member of the Women's Lacrosse Team. As a second year
team they took the title as NCAA Division II champions. The
following year in 2002 they completed the season as NCAA
Division II semifinalists.
Kim has coached several sports including soccer, field
hockey, basketball and lacrosse. She coached at Glen Cove
high school for three years; 1 year as the Junior Varsity
coach and the following 2 as the Assisant Varsity coach.
This will be Kim'ssecond year as the Assisant Varsity coach
at North Babylon, where she also teaches middle school
physical education. This will be her third year coaching
liberty and is extremely excited to be returning for another
successful summer.
Brigid Lynch graduated from William Smith College in 2003, where she was a member of both the Lacrosse and Field Hockey team. Lynch, a two time All- American was named Inside Lacrosse 2003 Division III Defensive Player of the Year. She was also named Regional All- American and All- UCAA three years.
Lynch led her team to three appearances in the NCAA tournament, and one of those years was to the final four. In Field Hockey, she was named Regional All-American and All-UCAA both in 2001 and 2002. She also was a member of the 2000 National Championship Team.
Brigid Lynch graduated from Manhasset High School where she was named All-County for both Lacrosse and Field Hockey. She was a member of the Long Island Schoolgirls team both 1998 and 1999 and was a participant of the 1998 gold medal empire lacrosse team. Brigid is currently the assistant varsity Lacrosse and Field Hockey coach at Manhasset High School.
Meg was a two-time All-County lacrosse player, team MVP, team captain, and
Female Athlete of the Year for North Shore High School.
Meg received an athletic scholarship to play Division 1 lacrosse at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. As an All-Conference player at Monmouth, she was one of the top attackers on her team. During her sophomore campaign, Monmouth won the Northeast Conference Championship, which propelled them into their first ever appearance in the NCAA Division 1 Lacrosse Tournament. This spring Meg will be starting her first season as thePort
Washington Varsity Coach.
Meg has coached lacrosse camps at LUHI and Monmouth University. She started coaching for Liberty Lax at the end of last summer and is looking forward to the upcoming season.
Tracey Uellendahl graduated from Central Connecticut State University in 2003. She still holds all of the major records in individual categories for the Blue Devils. While serving as a team captain in her final two years she led the woman’s NCAA Division 1 in goals-per-game. Tracey also finished second in the nation in points-per-game in 2003. The NEC also honored Tracey when they named her to the women’s first team attack in 2002 and 2003.
Tracey has worked with The New York Lacrosse Camps as well as the Island Lacrosse Camp. She has run many sessions on Long Island (as well as Michigan and Florida) for both players and coaches since her graduation from CCSU.
Tracey excelled in lacrosse and soccer both in college and while she attended The Wheatley School in Old Westbury, NY. She still holds her high school’s career scoring records in both sports. She served as a captain in both sports during her junior and senior years for the Wildcats. Tracey was an all-county selection in both sports. She was also a member of The Empire State Scholastic Soccer Team in 1997. The George Glaser Memorial Award was given to Tracey in June of 1998.
Tracey is the present girl’s varsity coach at Great Neck North High School.
Molloy College Head Womens Lacrosse
Manhasset High School Head Girls Lacrosse Coach 1999-2005 Overall record 110-22-4
NY State Small School Champs 2003
LI Small School Champs 2003, 2004 and 2005
Nassau County Small School Champs 2003. 2004 and 2005
League Champs 1999 and 2001
Newsday Nassau County Coach of the Year 2003 and 2004
Nassau County Coach of the Year 2001
President of the Long Island Metropolitan Lacrosse Foundation 2003-2005
Vice President 2000-2003
Chairman of the Womens Hall of Fame Nomination Committee
Caitlin attended high school in Baldwinsville, NY where she played soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. Her lacrosse team appeared in two state final games earning one state championship and ranked 15th in the nation. She then went on to play at Hofstra University and contributed to the midfield position. She helped lead her team to three CAA conference tournament appearances. In her senior year, they ended the season ranked 13th in the nation. Caitlin was awarded the "Unsung Hero" award her senior year and named to ESPN the Magazine's second team Academic All-District I University Division Team and IWLCA 2005 National Honor Roll. While at Hofstra Caitlin was second on the team with 46 groundballs, ranked third on the squad in assists and caused turnovers. Caitlin finished her career with 42 goals scored, 29 assists, 71 points, 134 ground balls, 79 caused turnovers and 37 draw controls. She now works for Automatic Data Processing in Investor Communications Services as a management trainee.
Jaime attended Glen Cove High School, where she helped start up the lacrosse program. During her senior year her team became the Division 2 champions. Jaime holds the record for most career goals at Glen Cove High School. She was also on the Gold medal Empire State team her junior year.
She went on to attend Hofstra University where her team made it to the CAA tournament every year. She started as both a Midfielder and Defender for Hofstra. In her senior year the team finished 13th in the nation.
Jaime is currently coaching Basketball at Friends Academy and Lacrosse at Greenvale.
Margaret graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 where she was a four year member of the womens lacrosse team as a goalkeeper. While there, her team appeared in the NCAA tournament three times. In 2002, her team won the ACC
Championship and went to the NCAA Final Four.
Margaret graduated from Paul D. Schreiber HS in Port
Washington where she was a two time All-County Hon. Mention lacrosse
player.
She was a member of the Long Island Schoolgirls National Team in
1997 and the 1998 gold medal winning Empire lacrosse team.
At Port, she was also a two time All-State field hockey player.
Margaret currently coaches the JV lacrosse team and middle school field hockey at North Shore.
Gussie graduated from Georgetown University where she served as captain her senior year. While at Georgetown her team made it to the final four numerous years and Georgetown was consistently ranked as a top 5 program in the country.
In 2002 Gussie was the assistant coach at James Madison University a program consistently ranked as a top 10 program in the country.
Gussie holds her Masters in degree in education and is currently a guidance counselor at the Loyola School in Manhattan.
Alexis attended Mamaroneck High School, located in Westchester, New York.
There she played field hockey, basketball and lacrosse.
She went on to attend Hofstra University in 2000, where she was a top defender for the Division I team. In 2001, during her freshman year, the Hofstra Pride were named America East Champions. Following that year Hofstra Lacrosse joined the Colonial Atheltic Association making it to the CAA Tournament each year.
Alexis recently received her Masters in Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Counseling, she is in the process of completing a Masters in Elementary Education and is currently substitute teaching. Alexis also coaches Modified field Hockey, and Junior Varsity Lacrosse for the Mamaroneck School District, and has been doing so for the past three years.
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