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Barbara Young begins her 28th season at the helm of the women’s tennis team and has established herself as one of the winningest coaches in the history of Lafayette athletics. Young also starts her sixth season as head coach of the men’s squad. She guided both teams to winning seasons last year. Her combined record at Lafayette now stands at 365-159-1. She not only led the women’s team to its first Patriot League regular-season title during the 1996-97 season, but she also guided the program to the 1986 East Coast Conference and 1991 Patriot League crowns. Twenty-four different women’s tennis student-athletes have won 32 individual conference titles (singles and/or doubles) during her tenure. Young also coached the Lafayette volleyball team to a school-record 175 wins over 11 seasons and led the women’s basketball squad to a 59-26 mark through five years. Young, who served as Lafayette’s assistant director of athletics and senior woman administrator from 1999-2001, joined the Leopards’ staff as a physical education instructor following coaching stints at Northwestern University, Chatham College and East Stroudsburg University. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Young earned a master’s degree from West Chester University. She has written a number of sports-related articles on topics ranging from the anthropology of sport to the international sensation of mini-volleyball. Synonymous with Lafayette women’s tennis, Young took charge of the women’s program in its second year as a varsity sport in 1976 and has had just two losing campaigns in her 27 seasons at the helm. She has also guided three teams, her 1981 spring and fall squads and her 1983 fall club, to perfect records. Since joining the Patriot League in 1990, Young’s women’s teams have posted winning league records in all but four seasons. Her Leopards are a combined 42-31-1 against league opposition. A former assistant coordinator of physical education, recreation and intramurals at Lafayette, Young and her husband, Jim, have two children, Kate and Matt, and live in Easton, Pa. |
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