About the Coach
MaryAnn Foley Schiller
Head Coach, Women's Lacrosse
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-1118
mschille@haverford.edu
MaryAnn Foley Schiller, a two-time All-American at Penn State, was named Head Women’s Lacrosse and Field Hockey Coach at Haverford College in July of 2002. Schiller has been solely coaching women’s lacrosse since July of 2006.
Schiller has pushed her Haverford teams to their fullest potential on and off the playing field. She has coached five different All-Conference players and 36 Centennial Academic Honor Roll honorees since her arrival. On April 19, 2007, Schiller guided the lacrosse program to its 200th victory with an 18-3 win over Immaculata University. She has 38 wins at the helm of the Haverford Women’s Lacrosse Team, placing her third all-time in program history. In 2005, she coached first-team All-Conference selection Margaret Sampson to elite levels, as Sampson led the conference in goals (3.44) and points (4.25).
During Schiller’s first season at Haverford in 2003, the Fords were rated as the second most-improved team in the country according to laxpower.com. Schiller led the team to nine wins, tripling the squad’s win total from 2002. She also led Haverford to its first Seven Sisters Championship since 1991 and a Hood Trophy clinching double-overtime win at Swarthmore, in 2003.
As a collegiate women’s lacrosse standout at Penn State, Schiller went to the NCAA Final Four in all four of her lacrosse playing seasons. She also made one trip to the NCAA field hockey semifinals in 1986 as a freshman member of the Penn State Field Hockey Team. In the spring of 1987, Schiller was a starter of Penn State’s first women’s NCAA championship team, taking home the women’s lacrosse title with a 7-6 win over Temple. She started in the NCAA lacrosse final versus Temple on Haverford’s Walton Field in 1988. In her 1989 junior season, she scored two goals in the NCAA women’s lacrosse championship game, leading the Nittany Lions past Harvard, 7-6, for their second national championship in three seasons. Schiller ended her career at Penn State ranked 11th with 194 career points, 9th with 137 career goals and 14th with 57 career assists.
Schiller began her lacrosse coaching career at Swarthmore College as an assistant in the spring of 1992. Later that fall, Schiller became a graduate assistant at Trenton State (now The College of New Jersey), where she earned her master’s degree in education and helped guide the Lions’ Field Hockey Team to the NCAA Division III championship game. In the spring of 1993, she helped lead the Lions’ to a NCAA Division III national women’s lacrosse championship.
Schiller spent the 1994 and 1995 seasons as the assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Penn State. She reached another NCAA semifinal appearance in 1995 and then became the Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Boston College that summer. She remained with the Eagles until 2000, when she decided to return to her hometown to teach math and coach field hockey for the Marple Newtown School District. The Tigers went 15-1-2 as undefeated Central League champions in 2001. In 2005, Schiller was inducted into Marple Newtown’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Schiller and her husband Peter currently reside in Broomall with their two daughters Anna (4 1/2) and Margaret (3).