Head Coach Liz Ford

Phone: (330) 263-2182
e-mail: eford@wooster.edu

At the helm of one of the most successful women’s lacrosse programs in the NCAA Div. III West Region for her fourth year is Liz Ford. She has guided the Fighting Scots to three-straight seasons of double-digit win totals – 11-3 in 2006, 12-5 in 2007, and 10-6 in 2008 – for a winning percentage of .702.

Highlighting Ford’s tenure, Wooster won the 2007 North Coast Athletic Conference championship, which marked the program’s fourth such title in six years, and with it, received a berth into the NCAA Tournament. For her efforts that spring, she was tabbed NCAC co-Coach of the Year.

Ford only had to make a cross-town move, as she was formerly the head girl’s lacrosse coach at Wooster High School. She helped the Generals to winning records four of five seasons, including an 11-3-2 mark in 2002 and reaching the Round of 16 at the Ohio State Lacrosse Association Tournament in 2004.

Ford also brought significant experience at the collegiate level to the position. In fact, she was an assistant coach at Wooster during the 1998-99 academic year, and prior to that, a graduate assistant in field hockey and lacrosse for two seasons at Washington (Md.) College.

Originally from Glassboro, N.J., and a graduate of Glassboro High School, the former Liz Garrett was a four-year starter in field hockey and three-year starter in lacrosse at perennial national power Rowan University. She helped the Profs to NCAA Tournament appearances twice in each sport and picked up all-region honors in lacrosse as a senior captain in 1995.

Ford, who holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Rowan and a master’s in history from Washington, also was a teacher for several years at various schools in New Jersey, Maryland, and Ohio. She is married to the Scots’ head men’s soccer coach, Graham Ford, and they reside in Wooster.