Gettysburg College Women's Lacrosse

Jordan  Head Field Hockey Coach/Associate Women's Lacrosse Coach Barb Jordan enters her 15th season as head field hockey coach and associate womens lacrosse coach at Gettysburg College in 2016-17. Jordan is the programs all-time leader in wins with a career record of 143-110 (.565 winning percentage). One of just four field hockey coaches at Gettysburg to reach 100 career wins, Jordan has guided the Bullets to a berth in the Centennial Conference playoffs nine times and an ECAC Division III championship in 2005. Gettysburg has won at least 10 games in nine of the past 13 seasons, including tying a program record with 17 victories in 2005.   The Bullets have also been ranked among the top-20 in the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III national poll in seven of the last 11 seasons. In 2009, the team posted a record of 14-5, marking the second-most victories under Jordans tutelage. Gettysburg was ranked as high as 13th in the national poll that season and reached the semifinals of the CC Tournament. As an assistant with the Gettysburg womens lacrosse team, Jordan has played in integral role in one of the top programs in the nation. In 2011, the team claimed its first national title when it won the NCAA Division III championship. Over the last 14 years with Jordan on staff, Gettysburg is 251-44, has claimed eight conference championships, and has reached the NCAA Tournament every year. The Bullet lacrosse team has made five appearances in the national semifinals, including a runner-up finish in 2006. In 2011, Jordan was named NCAA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Womens Lacrosse Association (IWLCA). A 1986 graduate of Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and parks, Jordan came to Gettysburg after compiling a 47-40 record in six years as head coach of the Bucknell University womens lacrosse team, including a 13-3 mark in 1997. Her 47 victories are the most by a Bucknell womens lacrosse coach. In addition, she spent five seasons as an assistant coach with the Bucknell field hockey program, helping guide that squad to a program-record 14 victories in 1999.  Before arriving in Lewisburg, Jordan spent one year as an assistant womens lacrosse coach at Division I Vanderbilt University and six years as a physical education teacher and varsity girls lacrosse coach at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., serving as the chair of the physical education department from 1993-95. At Penn State, Jordan was a three-time women's lacrosse All-American, as well as a three-time team most valuable player and team captain in 1985. She also earned varsity letters on the Nittany Lions' field hockey team in 1981 and 1982. She was a member of the United States women's lacrosse team from 1982-89 and was a starter on the 1986 U.S. World Cup that captured a silver medal. She also served as captain of the U.S. under-23 team that toured England, Scotland and Wales in 1987. She won the Beth Allen Award in 1992, presented annually by the United States Women's Lacrosse Association to a lacrosse player at the national tournament who exhibits highly developed skills, discipline, and a sense of sportsmanship and spirit for the game. In November 2004, Jordan was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.  

Cantele is the programs all-time leader in wins, amassing a record of 339-99 (.774 winning percentage) and claiming nine Centennial Conference titles and one national title. She ranks fifth in in NCAA history with a career record of 363-122 (.748) over 27 seasons as a head coach.   Over the last 16 seasons, Cantele has led the Bullets to unprecedented heights. The team has competed in the NCAA Division III Tournament 15 times and has advanced to the national semifinals five times in the last 10 years. In 2011, Gettysburg captured its first NCAA team championship as Canteles squad defeated Bowdoin College 16-5 in the championship game.   Cantele has coached Gettysburg each year the school has competed in the Centennial Conference. Over the last 22 years, the Bullets have turned in an impressive record of 173-30 (.852) in conference play. The team won its league record ninth title in 2014.   Thirty-seven of Canteles student-athletes have been named All-Americans by the Intercollegiate Womens Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA). Additionally, six Bullets have been named IWLCA Division III Player of the Year at their respective positions. Cantele has also coached 86 all-region selections, 120 all-conference honorees, one Academic All-American, and two Elite 89 Award winners. Canteles success has been recognized often by her peers. In 2013, she was named the CC Coach of the Year for the first time. She has been named NCAA Division III Coach of the Year twice (2006, 2011) and Metro Region Coach of the Year eight times (2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015).   Gettysburg has won at least 14 games in each of the last 16 seasons, including a school-record 21 in 2006. The program has maintained a national ranking in every poll since the 2000 season. In 2006, the Bullets ascended to the No. 1 spot for the first time in program history, a feat it duplicated in 2007, 2012, and 2015.   Cantele earned her 300th career victory with a 17-3 win over McDaniel College on April 4, 2012. She notched win No. 200 when the Bullets defeated Gwynedd-Mercy College 21-2 on March 3. On April 10, 2002, Cantele became the programs all-time coaching victories leader and the first Gettysburg womens lacrosse coach to win 100 games when the Bullets downed Dickinson College 16-9. She led her 1995, 1997, and 2001 squads to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Mid-Atlantic playoffs, capturing the championship in 1995.   In 2009, she was awarded the Judith M. Sweet Commitment Award by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA), given to those individuals who have provided outstanding leadership and commitment to colleagues and student-athletes in intercollegiate athletics. Also in 2009, Cantele was named head coach of the U.S. Developmental Team and she served an assistant coach with Team USA during its run to the gold medal at the 2013 World Cup.   Cantele also compiled a school-record 121 coaching victories and five conference championships in 10 years with the Gettysburg field hockey program before resigning in 2002 to focus on womens lacrosse and her new role as senior womans administrator. Cantele is also the Assistant Director of Athletics and oversees the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).   Prior to returning to her alma mater, Cantele turned around the lacrosse program at Plymouth State University, taking a 3-9 team in her first season there to a 10-2 team in her last in 1992. In her four seasons at the helm, she was 24-23. She also coached the Panthers field hockey team for two seasons, leading the squad to a 20-11-2 record and an appearance in the ECAC semifinals.   Cantele served as a graduate assistant with the field hockey team at Miami (Ohio) University from 1986-88 where she attained an M.A. in physical education with an emphasis in sport psychology/coaching behavior. She also served as the head coach of the club lacrosse team at Miami.   Cantele is one of a select few to lay claim to national titles as both a coach and as a player. A 1983 graduate of Gettysburg, the former Carol Daly helped the Bullets win the schools first national title with the field hockey team in 1980. That team won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Division III Tournament the precursor to the NCAA Championships. A dual-sport athlete, Cantele also competed on the Bullets lacrosse team and led that program to its first national playoff appearance in 1981.   Cantele resides in Gettysburg with her husband, Mike, who is the head athletic trainer at Gettysburg College.     Carol Cantele