About the Coach
Julie Shaner Young
Head Coach, Women's Lacrosse
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-1118
jsyoung@haverford.edu
Julie Shaner Young begins her first season with the Fords in 2008-09.
A highly decorated player at Princeton University, Young has been the first assistant at the University of Pennsylvania since 2002. While at Penn, she has helped head coach Karin Brower lead the Quakers through a meteoric rise in collegiate women’s lacrosse, transforming a team that had one winning record since 1983 into a two-time Ivy League champion (2007, 2008) and an NCAA championship finalist in 2008.
Young coached seven All-Americans while with Penn and was the program’s recruiting coordinator and chief scout of Quaker opponents. For Brower, Young planned practices and developed game strategies that have propelled the women to five consecutive winning seasons and a 73-42 overall mark since Julie stepped onto the sideline at Penn with Brower, the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year.
No stranger to leading a program, Young has been the head coach of various college lacrosse camps on the East Coast including the Duke Super Elite Lacrosse Camp, the Princeton Elite Lacrosse Camp, the U.S. Development Player Camp, and the All-American Select 100 Lacrosse Camp. In addition, she has been the Assistant Director of the Penn Elite & Quaker Lacrosse Camps in Philadelphia and for the All-Star Lacrosse Camps in Atlanta.
Locally, Young is the co-founder of the Philly Women’s Lacrosse League which has created opportunities for post-collegiate players to continue playing lacrosse after college. The just completed Spring and Summer League seasons each had 120 players participating.
A dual-sport athlete at Princeton University where she earned a B.A. in psychology in 2001, Young was All-Ivy eight times earning four honors each in both soccer and lacrosse. As the team captain in 2001, Young led head coach Chris Sailer’s Tigers lacrosse team to the Ivy League championship and a second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. Penn’s leap into the 2008 NCAA championship game was Young’s second visit to the final after her Princeton squad played in the 2000 final. A three-time Brine/IWLCA All-American (’99, ’00, ’01), she was a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist—presented to the top women’s collegiate lacrosse player—in 2001.
A two-time Tigers soccer captain, three time team MVP (’97, ’99, ’00) and three time Mid-Atlantic Regional All-American in soccer (’97, ’99, ’00), Young was presented the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award at the culmination of her senior year at Princeton, an honor given to the University’s Sportswoman of the Year.
In her post-collegiate playing days, Young was a member of the United States National Development Lacrosse Team from 2001-2002 and the U.S. National Elite Lacrosse Team from 2003-2004.
What others are saying about Young:
Haverford College Director of Athletics Wendy Smith '87: "Julie's successful playing career at Princeton and coaching experiences at both Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania made her an ideal choice for our position,” states Smith. “Julie's clear understanding of the demands on student-athletes at a very academically challenging institution and her proven ability to meet those demands at the highest levels both academically and athletically bode very well for the future of Haverford College women's lacrosse. I am very pleased to have Julie joining our department and look forward to the competitive development of the lacrosse program under her guidance.”
Penn women's lacrosse head coach Karin Brower: “Julie has been an integral part of the Penn women's lacrosse team's climb up the ladder nationally from being unranked to the No. 2 team in the nation [2008],” said Brower. “She is an exceptional coach and will do an outstanding job at Haverford. Her knowledge of the game coupled with her motivational techniques will inspire the Haverford players to reach new heights. I wish her all of the luck in the world as we will miss her immensely here at Penn.”
Princeton women's lacrosse head coach Chris Sailer: “All of us in the Princeton Lacrosse Family are thrilled to learn that Julie Shaner Young ’01, one of the very best to ever wear the Orange and Black, has been appointed the new head women's lacrosse coach at Haverford College,” said a proud Sailer. “Julie is a student of the game, a strong leader and a great motivator. She understands the extraordinary role that athletics can play in the overall education and character development of student-athletes. As the first assistant at Penn, she helped build a program that went from the basement of the Ivy League to NCAA Final Four participant in just six years. Haverford's women's lacrosse program will be in good hands with Julie at the helm.”