Head Coach Liz Ford

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

Liz Ford enters her third year at the helm of one of the most successful women’s lacrosse programs in the NCAA Div. III West Region. She took over a Wooster team that had won nearly 70 percent of its games during the 2000s (68-30) and three-straight North Coast Athletic Conference championships (2002-04), and continued that run of success, guiding the Scots to 11-3 and 12-5 records the last two seasons, including another NCAC title and berth in the NCAA Tournament during 2007. 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 girls lacrosse coach at Wooster High School. She helped the Generals to winning records four of five seasons, highlighted by an 11-3-2 mark in 2002 and advancing to the Round of 16 in the 2004 Ohio State Lacrosse Association Tournament.

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.