Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2018
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Andrea Bradley
The incredible coaching career of Andrea Bradley began in the fall of 1991 at Goucher, where the 23-year old Bradley came to campus after earning her Bachelor’s Degree from Delaware in 1989 and a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois in 1991. The programs Bradley inherited that season was, shall we say, low on numbers.
In the 1991 field hockey season, Bradley coached a team with just seven players (normally you start 11 in field hockey). Somehow, Bradley led the team to a pair of victories that first season, and from there, led both programs to their longest period of success in the history of the school.
First, in 1992, Bradley was named the NCAA Division III South Region Coach of the Year after leading the Gophers to a 12-7 season. After a 10-7-1 campaign in 1993, Bradley led the Gophers to their best season in program history at that point in 1994, as the squad finished with a 15-4-1 record, won their first Capital Athletic Conference Championship, and qualified for their first NCAA Tournament bid.
As the lacrosse coach, Bradley had similar success, culminating with a 13-1 1995 season in which the Gophers won their first CAC title. After the lacrosse season, Bradley left Goucher for an assistant coaching position at the University of Iowa, ending her tenure with a 28-24 mark in lacrosse and a 39-25-2 ledger in field hockey over four seasons.
Since then, Bradley has gone on to become one of the best field hockey coaches in the country.
As an assistant at Iowa, the Hawkeyes won two Big Ten Championships. After a four-year stint at Maryland as an assistant (where the Terrapins won the NCAA Division I national title in 1999), Bradley took over the head coaching job at Richmond.
After a successful six-year stint at Richmond (2001-2006) where she won two Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year awards and led the Spiders to five straight Atlantic 10 titles, Bradley was named the head coach at Syracuse in 2007. She will enter her 12th season as the head coach of the Orange in 2018.
At Syracuse, she has led her team to the NCAA Tournament in 10 straight seasons, culminating with a National Championship in 2015, the first for a women's team at Syracuse in school history. She's also been named the NFHCA National Coach of the Year twice (2008 and 2015), Big East Coach of the Year four times and ACC Coach of the Year once.
Cathy Challener, '73
When Cathy Challener came to the Goucher campus in 1969, she entered during a tumultuous time not only on campus but in the community-at-large. In her time at Goucher, Challener became not only an expletory student who went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in English, she became an athlete who excelled at three sports, who was a leader both on the playing field and in the campus community.
Challener joined the freshman field hockey team in her first weeks on campus in 1969, and excelled on the field from the start. A four-year varsity performer in three sports (field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse), Challener earned various accolades throughout her career in all three sports.
In field hockey, she was selected for the Baltimore Area College Second Team as a junior, and in her senior season, she served as team captain, was named the team’s most valuable player, and was selected to the First Team of the Baltimore Area College Team.
On the basketball court, she eventually became team captain as a junior. In lacrosse, she was selected to play in four United States National Lacrosse Tournaments, earning a spot on the Southeast Regional Team each year she was at Goucher, along with selections to the Baltimore Area College Team in each season she played. And, of course, she was a captain for the Lacrosse team, earning the distinction as a junior and a senior, while also being the named the teams most improved player in 1972.
The recipient of Goucher’s Scholar-Athlete award after her junior year of 1972, Challener left Goucher in 1973 and has gone on to earn two Master’s Degrees (M.S. in Physical Education and M.A. in English), while achieving a nearly 30-year career in education. She has taught high school and middle school English, while also teaching some physical education classes. Meanwhile, she has also served as a coach for 22 years, leading teams in the three sports she excelled in at Goucher College.
Dawn Greer Foster, '97
Dawn Greer Foster came to campus from William Penn High School in New Castle, Delaware in 1993, joining a fledging program that had just come off a 12-7 season in ’92. By the time she played her last game in 1996, Greer Foster left as the best goalie in Goucher field hockey history.
From her first game at Goucher, Greer Foster was the Gophers’ starting goalie, helping the team win 45 games in four seasons. Greer Fosters helped the Gophers take back-to-back CAC Championships in 1994 and 1995, as the team clinched a spot in the NCAA Tournament in both seasons.
A second-team All-CAC Selection in her freshman season of 1993, Greer Foster went on to earn All-CAC First Team accolades in 1994 and second team honors in 1993.
An All-South Regional honoree in 1995, Greer Foster’s name is still etched in history for the Goucher program to this day. In all, she still holds six different career and season records for the program. They are: shutouts in a season (12 in 1994), career shutouts (29), saves in a season (283 in 1996), career saves (801), save percentage for a season (.930 in 1994), and save percentage for a career (.890).
Matt Lynch, '12
When Matt Lynch entered the Goucher College men’s lacrosse program from LaSalle College High School outside of Philadelphia in 2009, he was entering a program on the rise but had not reached the top of the Landmark Conference.
By the time Lynch left campus in 2012, he contributed to Goucher winning a pair of Landmark Conference titles (while making the conference championship match three times), win their first NCAA Tournament match in program history, and collect a combined 53 victories over four seasons.
On the field, Lynch excelled from the first day he stepped on campus. For his career, the midfielder scored 117 goals, dished out 103 assists, collected 198 ground balls and caused 35 turnovers. He still holds the program record for assists in a season, dishing out 39 during the historic 2012 season. He also still sits second overall in career assists with 103 and fourth in total points with 220.
For his on-field accolades, Lynch was honored several times over not only in the Landmark Conference but nationally. He was named to the All-Landmark Conference First Team an unprecedented three times (2010, 2011, 2012), was a USILA All-American Honorable Mention selection twice (2010, 2011), and a USILA Third Team All-American selection in 2012.
For his efforts, Lynch was named one of the best men’s lacrosse players at his position in the short history of the Landmark Conference, as he was named to the Conference’s All-Decade team for the sport last year.
Off-the-field, Lynch had just as impressive of a resume, earning his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Management while posting a grade point average of 3.59. With such a solid GPA, Lynch was named to the national CoSIDA Academic All-American Third Team after his senior campaign in 2012, while also earning CoSIDA Academic All-District honors the same season.