Ursinus College

Harris' remarkable resume of athletic success – both as a player and a coach – spans more than half a century. Though the majority of her athletic success has been tied to field hockey, Harris' most indelible contribution to the rich history of Ursinus came as the head coach of the women's lacrosse team, which she guided to the first of two consecutive United States Women's Lacrosse Association national championships in 1983.


Harris, who also coached the women's tennis team from 1987 to 1994, spent more than a decade on the Bears' various field hockey coaching staffs. She coached the 3^rd and 4^th teams from 1977 to 1979 and the junior varsity from 1980 to 1983 before a five-year stretch as a varsity assistant under fellow Hall of Famer Adele Boyd. Harris earned her advanced level coaching certification in 1981 and traveled with the Bears' field hockey team on a pair of international tours to Holland in 1979 and 1984.

A four-time All-Philadelphia College selection at Temple University, Harris played for the United States National Team from 1959-1973, a tenure that places her just a year shy of the record held by the late Anne Barton Townsend. Harris' field hockey career took her all over the world, from IWFHA conferences in Amsterdam and Germany to South Africa, Jamaica, Denmark and Great Britain, where the American squad battled England to a 3-3 draw in famed Wembley Stadium in 1962. Harris developed the training program for the USA Hockey Training Camp held at Ursinus in 1974 and coached at a number of developmental camps in the late 1970s and early 1980s.