Tigerpride
Tigerpride
Crista Samaras
Chris Sailer has had a long and storied career that includes a lot of shift and change in women's sports, lacrosse, and the players. This podcast is a celebration of Coach Chris Sailer, a look into the last 36 years of women's sports in this country, and a deep dive into the impact one woman has made on so many.
Mollie Marcoux Samaan – The Boss
Molly Marcoux Samaan graduated from Princeton in 1991 as a two-sport athlete. She played soccer and absolutely crushed ice-hockey. She was the 1988 Ivy League Rookie of the year, a four-time 1st Team All-Ivy selection and still holds the record for most goals in a season. In 2014, she returned to Princeton as the University’s Ford Family Director of Athletics. Currently, Mollie has another really cool job in sports, as the Commissioner of the LPGA.
May 5, 2022
31 min
Brooke Owens & Kurt Lunkenheimer – The Couple
Brooke Owens and Kurt Lunkenheimer have been together since 1999. Kurt was a senior captain of the insanely successful men’s team that won the National Championship his freshman, sophomore, and junior years. Brooke was a freshman when they met, on the verge of an epic career en route to winning the National Championship as a senior in 2002. Now married, with two kids, they are living the dream in Miami Beach.
May 1, 2022
49 min
Liz Fagan - The Intense
Liz Fagan is one of the best athletes to come out of Princeton EVER. For Field Hockey, she was the Rookie of the Year in 1991 and the Ivy League Player of the Year in 1993 and 1994. She only started playing lacrosse her freshman year at Princeton. Only three years later, in 1994, her junior year, she was a starting defensive midfielder on the first Princeton National Championship team ever.
Apr 30, 2022
38 min
Jenn Cook - The Mentor
Jenn Cook is the Associate Head Coach at Princeton. For 10 seasons she has led the defensive strategy for the Tigers, which has contributed to 4 Ivy League Titles. In 2019, Jenn and the Tiger D crushed it, and Jenn was named IWLCA Assistant Coach of the Year. As a player, she was a 3x All-American and 3x All ACC player at UNC who, though she graduated in 2007, still holds the career record in ground balls for the Tarheels.
Apr 27, 2022
31 min
Kerrin Maurer – The Humor
Kerrin Maurer was a star for the Duke Women’s Lacrosse Team. She graduated in 2015 a 2x All-American and with a 47-game point scoring streak. For all four years she played at Duke, Kerrin led the Blue Devils in point scoring and to four consecutive NCAA quarterfinals appearances, including a trip to the national semifinals her senior year. That year, in 2015, Duke beat Princeton in the Quarterfinals to advance to the Final Four.
Apr 24, 2022
33 min
Lucy DeStefano - The Captain
Lucy Small DeStefano was a senior captain of the 1999 Tiger team that lost in the Quarterfinals against Penn State on Sherrerd Field in 1952 Stadium. She started her career as a two-sport athlete at Princeton, quickly chose to stick with lacrosse only, then worked her butt off to gain a starting spot her sophomore year. She ended her collegiate athletic career a 2x All-American, 3x All-Ivy player and the DI Defensive Player of the Year in 1999. She went on to play on the USA Team for 6 more years post-collegiately.
Apr 22, 2022
30 min
Karin Corbett – The Rival
Karin Brower Corbett graduated from William & Mary as a field hockey and lacrosse star. She was the first dedicated Assistant Coach to the Princeton Lacrosse program after the Field Hockey and Lacrosse programs split in 1995. She came in as a defensive specialist who took time with players, and most importantly, shared Chris’s love and dedication to teaching the sport. In 2000, she took over the program at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 6 years, she built the team to national prominence and created a savage rivalry with Princeton that stands today. Penn made the Final Four in 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2007, Karin was named IWLCA National Coach of the Year. In 2008, UPenn made it to the final game. In her 22 years at UPenn, Karin’s teams have won 11 Ivy League Championships.
Apr 19, 2022
43 min
Theresa Sherry - The Dynamo
Theresa Sherry’s career as a Tiger spanned four of the most nationally successful years in the program’s history. Her freshman year, they lost in the final game. Sophomore year, they won the championship. Junior year, she scored the money shot in overtime to win back-to-back championships. And senior year, in 2004, the year Princeton hosted the NCAA Finals, they lost in the final game. That year, Theresa would be named Ivy League Player of the Year and finish her career at Princeton having won 7 Ivy League Championships because, that’s right, she also crushed it on the soccer field as a Tiger. 2x National Champion. 3x All American. 4x All Ivy. All of this and a woman here today, 18 years after graduating, talking about the best parts of it all - her 2004 classmates, that 2004 team, and that 2004 coaching staff.
Apr 17, 2022
36 min
Tess D’Orsi – The Senior
Tess D’Orsi headed into her senior year a 3x Ivy League Champion and was ready to go 4 for 4 in the 2020 season before COVID wiped out the ability for her and her class of 2020 teammates to look forward to - and have - all of their lasts -  last practice on ‘52, last pre-game meal, last game in a Princeton Women’s Lacrosse uniform. She was coming off an 80 pt season, having scored her 100th career goal vs. Stony Brook in 2019. Though she never got to play her senior season, and our hearts break for every player who missed out on that opportunity, she shows up in truth, in heartbreak, and in pride to represent the great class of 2020.
Apr 15, 2022
28 min
Suzanne Morrison - The Fan
Suzanne Morrison was a Varsity Ice Hockey Player at Princeton. In her senior year, the fall of 1988, wanting to learn more about sports management, she became the Manager of the Field Hockey team to brand new Head Coach Beth Bozman, and then, in the spring of 1989, she took on the same role for the women’s lacrosse team. This was only Chris’s 3rd season at Princeton, and the first time the Tigers would make it to the Final Four. Despite her short involvement with the program as an undergrad, SuMo has become an active alumnae with Princeton University generally, and more specifically, and most meaningfully, with the Princeton Lacrosse Programs.
Apr 12, 2022
25 min
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