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Jenny Graap
Honors & Accomplishments
• 2002 IWLCA National Coach of the Year.
• Three-time IWLCA Northeast Coach of the Year (2002, 2006, 2016).
• All-time winningest coach in Cornell women’s lacrosse history.
• Has guided the program to two Ivy League regular season (2006, 2017) and one Ivy League Tournament (2016) championships as well as five NCAA Tournament appearances (2000, 2001, 2006, 2016, 2017).
• Coached 103 All-Ivy, 56 IWLCA All-Region, 19 IWLCA All-America, five Ivy League Players of the Year, three CoSIDA Academic All-America and one national Player of the Year finalist selections.
• Her 2002 NCAA Tournament semifinal team was the first women’s squad to reach an NCAA Final Four in any sport in school history.
Coaching Experience
• Head Coach, Cornell University (1998-present)
• Head Coach, George Mason University (1994-98)
• Graduate Assistant Coach, Penn State University (1990-93)
Playing Experience
• Cornell University (1982-86)
• Two-sport athlete (field hockey, lacrosse)
• Earned eight varsity letters
• Brine Regional All-American in lacrosse (1986)
• Second-team All-Ivy League in field hockey
• Philadelphia Club (USWLA) – 1991-93
• Team Ripple (Vail Lacrosse Shootout) – 1992-97, ’99, 2004
Education
• B.A., Apparel Design and Textiles, Cornell University (1986)
• M.S., Exercise and Sport Science, Penn State University (1993)
At Cornell
Jenny Graap returned to Cornell in 1997 with one goal in mind: to build the Big Red women’s lacrosse team into a championship contender. With the only two Ivy League regular titles in school history, an appearance in the NCAA Final Four, five NCAA appearances, nine Ivy Tournament appearances and a title in 2016, and two ECAC crowns, she only continues to build on a legacy of more than two decades on the sideline at her alma mater. In April 2021, she became the first Karin Bain Kukral '82 Head Coach of Women’s Lacrosse when the position was endowed.
Now entering her 28th year at the helm in 2023-24, Graap has been honored as the 2002 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Coach of the Year, the 2006 Inside Lacrosse Magazine Northeast Coach of the Year, the 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year and a three-time IWLCA Northeast Coach of the Year (2002, 2006, 2016), while developing the Big Red women’s lacrosse program into one of the most successful in the nation.
Graap, who accumulated 21 wins in four years at George Mason before taking the reigns at Cornell, has built an Ivy League and national title contender in her first two decades. She has posted a 227-160 record at Cornell and a 248-204 mark in 29 years as a head coach. She reached her 200th career win in dramatic fashion, defeating Penn, 11-10, on May 8, 2016, to win the Big Red's first-ever Ivy League Tournament Championship and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
In her tenure at Cornell, Graap has had 103 All-Ivy selections, 56 IWLCA All-Region selections, 19 IWLCA national All-Americans, three CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, five Ivy League Players of the Year and one national player of the year finalist. Her teams have reached postseason play 12 times since she returned to Cornell and have won at least 10 games nine times as well.
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