Pam Stuper, a member of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame, was
promoted to head coach in February of 2005. She helped lead Yale to
three ECAC Championships (1998, 2002 and 2003) in her eight seasons
as an assistant coach. Yale has seen success both on and off the
field during Stuper's tenure as head coach. The 2008 season marked
the fourth straight year Yale increased its goal total over the
previous season, and the Bulldogs finished with the second-best
assist total in school history. The 2007 team put together a
six-game winning streak that was Yale's longest in four years. The
Bulldogs also had their first All-American in six years (Harriet
Thayer '08, third team) that season. All told, Stuper has had six
All-Region selections (three first team, three second team) and 14
All-Ivy League selections (five first team, seven second team, two
honorable mention) in her four seasons at the helm. Yale earned
National Academic Team honors in each of Stuper's first three
seasons as head coach and had a total of 36 National Academic Squad
selections. She also had three Academic All-Ivy League selections,
an NCAA postgraduate scholarship winner and a Kiphuth
Student-Athlete Distinction Award honoree. Prior to joining the
Yale staff, Stuper was an assistant coach at James Madison
University from 1993-1995, helping the Dukes win the NCAA
Championship in 1994. A 1992 graduate of Old Dominion and member of
the ODU Hall of Fame, Stuper was a key part of three national
championship teams and was a two-time All-American. She also was
named GTE-CoSIDA Academic All-American in 1992. A nine-year member
of the U.S. National Team, Stuper participated in three World Cups
(1990, 1994 and 1998), one Pan-American Games (1995) and two
Champion's Trophy Tournaments (1995, 1997). She was an alternate
for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. Stuper earned a silver medal in the
1995 Pan American Games and a bronze medal in the 1994 World Cup.
Stuper added to her international experience by playing for the
Amsterdam Ladies First Team, which was Dutch National League Top
Division runner-up in 1996-1997. Stuper did a residency with the
U.S. National Team in Atlanta in 1995-96 and remains active in the
national field hockey scene. In 2007 she served as a manager for
the National Team's Netherlands tour and at the Champions Challenge
in Baku, Azerbaijan. She also was an assistant coach for the U.S.
Under-16 Olympic Development Select Team at the ABN Amro
International Easter Tournament in the Netherlands in March of
2008. Stuper has worked as a coach at the USFHA's Elite Performance
Training Center for the New England region since 2005. She was an
assistant coach for the New England team that also included two of
her players (Ali Rotondo '09 and Harriet Thayer '08) and both of
her coaches (Tamara Durante as an assistant coach and Abby Ostruzka
as a player) in 2007. In the summer of 2006 she coached the U-19
U.S. team at the Can Am Games in Virginia Beach, Va. Stuper also
serves as Second Vice-President of the National Field Hockey
Coaches Association, a position she has held since 2005. Stuper
received her master's degree in exercise science with an emphasis
in sports psychology from Southern Connecticut State University in
2008. She resides with her husband, John, the Yale baseball coach,
in Hamden. In addition to her USA Field Hockey and Old Dominion
honors, she is also a member of the Hempfield High School Hall of
Fame (Lancaster, Pa.).
| Yale's All-American and All-Region
Selections Under Head Coach Pam Stuper
|
| 2008
| F Ashley McCauley
| Second Team All-Region
|
| 2007
| F/M Harriet Thayer
| Third Team All-American
|
|
| F/M Harriet Thayer
| First Team All-Region
|
| 2006
| M Lindsay Collins
| First Team All-Region
|
|
| F Harriet Thayer
| Second Team All-Region
|
| 2005
| M/B Heather Orrico
| First Team All-Region
|
|
| M Lindsay Collins
| Second Team All-Region
|
| Yale's All-Ivy Selections Under Head Coach
Pam Stuper
|
| 2008
| F Ashley McCauley
| First Team All-Ivy (unanimous)
|
|
| GK Katie Bolling
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
|
| M Katie Cantore
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
| 2007
| F/M Harriet Thayer
| First Team All-Ivy (unanimous)
|
|
| GK Charlotte Goins
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
|
| F Ashley McCauley
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
|
| M Katie Cantore
| Honorable Mention All-Ivy
|
| 2006
| M Lindsay Collins
| First Team All-Ivy (unanimous)
|
|
| F Harriet Thayer
| First Team All-Ivy (unanimous)
|
|
| F Rachel Lentz
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
|
| M Heather Orrico
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
| 2005
| M/B Heather Orrico
| First Team All-Ivy
|
|
| M Lindsay Collins
| Second Team All-Ivy
|
|
| M/F Harriet Thayer
| Honorable Mention All-Ivy
|
