Current time in Baltimore 2:27 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2009
| |||||||||||||||||||
After concluding her collegiate playing career as the NCAA's all-time leader in draw controls, Dana Dobbie will step into the coaching realm as an assistant at Loyola.
A two-time All-American and Tewaaraton Trophy finalist, Dobbie brings a passion for the sport as a player that translates to her coaching style.
She recently completed her collegiate playing career as one of the top midfielders in NCAA history. At the University of Maryland, where she played for Adams, Dobbie was a two-time Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Player of the Year and the 2008 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Midfielder of the Year.
"It is great to be at Loyola, and I am looking forward to my first coaching job," Dobbie said when she was hired. "It was a privilege to play for Jen while I was at Maryland, and I am even more excited to work with her on this coaching staff."
A two-time Tewaaraton Trophy finalist in 2007 and 2008, Dobbie set the NCAA career record for draw controls (334) during her final collegiate season. As a senior, she led Division I, and set an NCAA single-season record with 126 draw controls.
She was an unanimous All-America First Team selection and was a three-time ACC Player of the Week in 2008, leading the conference with 70 goals, the sixth-highest total in Maryland history. She also topped the Terrapins, who advanced to the NCAA Championships Second Round, with 32 caused turnovers and was third on the team with 33 ground balls.
As a junior in 2007, the Guelph, Ontario, Canada, native was also an unanimous First Team All-American. She led Maryland with 79 draw controls and 39 ground balls and was second on the team with 53 goals and 69 points.
Dobbie spent her first two seasons of collegiate competition at Ohio University, scoring 34 goals as a freshman in 2005 and 37 in 2006. She was a two-time All-ALC honoree for the Bobcats and earned womenslacrosse.com Freshman All-America Team laurels.
Dobbie is currently a member - along with fellow Loyola Assistant Coach Kylee White - of the Canadian National Team. She was also captain of the 2003 Canadian Junior U-19 team, leading the squad in goals scored. She was a member of the 2003 World Championship team that won a bronze medal.
She graduated in May 2008 with a bachelor of arts degree in family studies from Maryland.
