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Pomona-Pitzer College

Pomona-Pitzer Athletics
 220 E. Sixth Street Claremont, CA 91711
Division 3 California Southwest
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Sarah Queener

Sarah Queener has completed eleven seasons as the head coach of the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Lacrosse program, where she has transformed the program.


Queener began in 2012 with a team that played several games without any substitutes and finished the regular season tied for last in the SCIAC (1-7), but took just two years to lead the Sagehens to a tie for first (8-2) in 2014.


In addition to the success on the field, Queener's teams have ranked No. 1 in the nation in team grade point average for multiple years, including her most recent team who also went 18-1 and made it to the Sweet 16.


Prior to joining the Sagehens, Queener spent the previous two years as the head coach of the Newport Harbor High School girls lacrosse program, where she led the Sailors to playoff appearances in each of her two years at the helm. As the head coach for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps from 2007-2009, Queener's teams compiled a 40-7 record and qualified for the NCAA tournament in each of her three seasons. She led CMS to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 2007 and its first NCAA tournament win in 2008.


Queener began her collegiate coaching career at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she served as an assistant coach from 2004-2006 and coached under the tutelage of Hall of Famer Pat Genovese.


Queener was a four-year starter at Yale University where she was a two-time All-Ivy League performer, an IWCLA All-American and a North-South Senior All-Star. During her senior year in 2003, she led the Bulldogs to an Ivy League title and an appearance in the elite 8 of the NCAA tournament. She continues to play in the summer months and was most recently a member of the undefeated championship team LuvLax in the 2022 Lake Placid Summit Classic Tournament.


A native of Penn Yan, New York, Queener comes from a lacrosse family. Her parents Harry and Patricia are lacrosse coaches at Penn Yan Academy, her brothers Brett and Brice are lacrosse coaches who played professionally, and her sister Sylvia was an All-American at Limestone University and currently coaches alongside Sarah on the Sagehens sideline.

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Brian Eisenberg

Brian Eisenberg is coming off two SCIAC Championship appearances in his first two years as he enters his third season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Lacrosse coaching staff in the fall of 2019.


Eisenberg previously was the first coach for the Chapman University Panthers, leading that team to a winning record in the inaugural year of women’s lacrosse at Chapman which earned him Western Women’s Lacrosse League (WWLL) Division II Coach of the Year honors in 2009. In 2011, Eisenberg’s third season as head coach, the team went undefeated (17 – 0) to win Division II regional (WWLL) and national (WCLA) championships which earned him 2011 Coach of the Year for both the WWLL and WCLA Division II. In spring 2013, the Panthers joined the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) and competed at the NCAA Division III level, where they finished 14 – 5 and second in the conference, just missing the NCAA playoffs.


In the spring of 2012, Eisenberg spent one season with El Dorado HS Girls’ program, where he helped the team reach playoffs for the first time in the program’s history, making it to the second round. Since 2013, he has spent his time at Esperanza High School, where the team tied Newport Harbor for the league title in the spring of 2015 and was ranked as high as #5 in the county during the Spring 2018 season. In this time, he also founded, and has been developing, the NOC (North Orange County) Lacrosse program to help serve youth and high school players in the broader NOC area. In 2018, Brian also became a Co-Director for the So Cal Express Lacrosse Girl’s Club Program, serving top players from all of Orange County and beyond.


In addition to coaching, Eisenberg has also had the opportunity to work as a team manager with two local professional lacrosse teams, the Anaheim Storm 2004 – 05 (indoor) and the L.A. Riptide 2006 – 08 (outdoor). A Type 1 (Juvenile) Diabetic, from Baltimore, Md., did not let that hold him back from playing sports. A three-sport athlete in high school (ice hockey, soccer and lacrosse), he played both men’s soccer and lacrosse at Chapman University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in May, 1999. Eisenberg recently earned his Master of Arts in Leadership Development at Chapman University in December 2015.

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Sylvia Queener

Queener rejoined the Sagehens' coaching staff in 2022 after spending three years as the Head Coach for Whittier College Women's Lacrosse.


Since taking over the program in September, 2016, Coach Queener and the Poets have placed six players on All SCIAC, had an IWLCA All-West Region player and defeated Chapman University for the first time in program history.


Prior to Whittier College, Queener coached three seasons at Pomona-Pitzer as an assistant coach. In her three years with the Sagehens, the teams were 3x regular season SCIAC champions, 2x SCIAC tournament champions, and made three NCAA appearances, making it to the sweet sixteen twice (2015, 2016).


Queener graduated magna cum laude from Limestone College, with a BA in theatre, and ended her lacrosse career as the Conference Carolinas Co-Player of the year, received All-American honors, and competed for a national championship. She also received the Conference Carolinas Spring Scholar Athlete Award for Women's Lacrosse. Queener also played at Monroe Community College and received All-American honors, and still holds the school record for most goals in a game (9). In high school, Queener was coached by both her mother and father, was a 2x All-American, and won a New York State Class B Championship.

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