Cindy (Campagna) Rohde was a three-sport student-athlete (she earned nine letters) who also played basketball, as well as volleyball, though she made her name on the lacrosse field.
She was a four-year starter on defense for the Greyhounds and was often matched up against the opponent's top offensive player, earning All-Maryland honors in both 1975 and 1976. Also a top goal scorer from her defense wing position, she was named the team's Most Valuable Player as a sophomore.
The Greyhounds hadn't won a game in their first two seasons as a varsity program; in Rohde's first season, 1975, they won or tied 10 of their 11 games. That success continued the next year, when Loyola lost only three times in 11 games. She came from a prep program at Loch Raven High School that never lost a game.
"It's been 40 years since I've played lacrosse, but the way I played is still relevant today," she says. "I played differently, more like the way that midfielders play today, and I'm proud of that."
Rohde later worked in the medical technology field, running a lab at St. Joseph's Hospital and working in infection control. She also coached youth lacrosse and field hockey for many years.
Rohde met her future husband Mark Rohde '76 during her freshman year at Loyola. Today, more than 40 years later, they become the second husband-wife duo in the Loyola Athletics Hall of Fame. Mark, a basketball standout, was inducted in 1992.
Today she and her husband are the owners of the Smoothie King on Cold Spring Lane just blocks from campus, their first store of several that they plan to open in the area.
"When we decided to open the store, I thought we needed to do it at Loyola," she says. "It's a little bit of coming full circle."
Rohde is still an avid Greyhounds fan as well as a Loyola parent; her daughter is a manager for the Loyola women's basketball team.
