A T H L E T I C S Former Lehigh women’s basketball head coach Sue Troyan, left, with her successor, Addie Micir. Shifting Gears Addie Micir has been promoted to head coach of the women’s basketball program, as longtime coachSueTroyan transitions to a senior leadership rolewithin the athletic department. Micir had been the program’s associate head coach. The transitionmarks the frst time in 32 years that Troyan is not a head coach at Lehigh. “There are times in your life when you know you are ready for change, and when you know the program is ready for change,” Troyan said. “This is one of those moments. It’s the right time for me, given an opportunity to make a broader impact at Lehigh, and it’s the “THERE ARE TIMES IN YOUR right time for the program knowing that we have the right person within LIFE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE our program to step in and continue to move it forward. Addie is the right READY FOR CHANGE, AND WHEN person at the right time.” Micir, who became the eighth head YOU KNOW THE PROGRAM IS coach in program history, has spent READY FOR CHANGE.” the last three seasons as associate head coach at Lehigh. Prior to joining —SUE TROYAN the Mountain Hawks, Micir spent one year as an assistant coach at Princeton, her alma mater. That year, the Tigers were the Ivy League’s regular season and tournament champions. Before returning to Princeton, she was an assistant coach at Dartmouth, where she earned her master’s degree in liberal studies, for fve years. As a player at Princeton,Micirwas a 1,000-point scorer, was named the program’s frst unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year and helped the school win back-toback Ivy League titles in 2010 and 2011. Troyan fnishes her basketball coaching career with an overall record of 430-361. She led the program to four Patriot League championships, oneWNIT Tournament and four NCAA Tournament appearances, the most recent in 2021. Troyan guided the team to six Patriot League Championship games and a winning season in each of her fnal four years at the helm. Under Troyan, the program saw 45 student-athletes named All-Patriot League, seven Patriot League major award winners and four recognized as Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Before heading the women’s basketball program, Troyan spent fve seasons as head softball coach at Lehigh, compiling a record of 126-90-1 with three league titles. In addition to her two head coaching positions, Troyan served for fve years as an assistant basketball coach and two years as the director of athletic programbudgets. NEW KICKS Lauren Calabrese ’07, a former four-year starter for Lehigh women’s soccer, has been tapped to lead the program as its new head coach. Calabrese, below right, succeeds Eric Lambinus, the program’s all-time winningest coach with 78 wins. Lambinus, who led Lehigh women’s soccer to its only Patriot League Championship and NCAA Tournament berth in 2010, had been at the helm for the past 12 years. He is transitioning into a new role at the university. Calabrese spent the previous six seasons as an assistant coach under Lambinus, below left. During that time, the programmade four Patriot League tournament appearances, including three straight from 2016-18, which tied a program record set from 2004-06, while Calabrese was a player. Prior to her time as an assistant coach, Calabrese served as a volunteer assistant during Lehigh’s 2010 Patriot League Championship season. As a player at Lehigh, she was a second team All-Patriot League honoree in 2003 and is currently fifth in school history with 13 career assists. She was also a four-year member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. Calabrese has added Taylor Campbell-Phipps, a former NCAA National Champion at Penn State in 2015 and multi-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, as an assistant coach. S UMM E R 2 0 2 2 | 1 5
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