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Barb Jordan enters her seventh season as head field hockey coach and assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Gettysburg College in 2008. The former head women’s lacrosse coach and assistant field hockey coach at Bucknell, Jordan has guided the Bullet field hockey team to a berth in the Centennial Conference playoffs in each of the last five seasons and an ECAC Division III championship in 2005. During her tenure, she has compiled a 66-49 overall record, including a 40-19 mark in conference play.
With Jordan leading the way, Gettysburg has won at least 10 games in each of the past five seasons, including tying a program record with 17 victories in 2005. The Bullets have spent time in the national polls in each of the last four seasons. In 2007, the team ranked posted a record of 11-7, including 7-3 in the CC, and ranked as high as No. 19.
A 1986 graduate of Penn State with a Bachelor of Science degree in recreation and parks, Jordan came to Gettysburg after compiling a 47-40 record in six years with the Bison women’s lacrosse team, including a 13-3 mark in 1997. Her 47 victories are the most by a Bucknell women’s 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 women’s lacrosse coach at Division I Vanderbilt and six years as a physical education teacher and varsity girl’s 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.
