South Mountaineer Volume 37, Issue 23

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Contents
Page 12
♦Spring sports updates
and schedules
Page 14
♦ Baseball: Steve
Chamberlain
♦ Track & Field:
vs. Lafayette
Lehigh
Nation's Leaders
Softball's Junior shortstop Kim Miller leads the
nation's hitters with a .568 batting average.
Senior Jill Altshuler of the women's lacrosse team
leads the country in scoring with 38 goals and 50
points.
Page 15
♦ Olympic Sports: Week
in review
SOUTH
MOUNTAINEER
Volume 37, Issue 23
April 12,1995
Sue Troyan Named Women's Basketball Coach
Current softball coach to hand the reigns to Fran Troyan
Bethlehem, Pa. — Sue Troyan, 28, has been
named head women's basketball coach at Lehigh
University. She succeeds Jocelyn Beck who resigned in March.
The announcement was made at an April 12,
1995, press conference by Joe Sterrett, Lehigh's
Director of Athletics.
"Sue Troyan has been one of our most successful coaches over the past several years," Sterrett
said. "She has proven her abilities to build a
program from the ground up. She knows our
basketball student-athletes and the challenges we
face with that program. Sue has earned the opportunity to step up to those challenges."
Troyan, who this past year served as head
softball coach and director of athletics program
budgets, will relinquish those duties effective July
1, 1995.
"I'm extremely excited about the challenge of
overseeing the women's basketball program,"
Troyan said. "This has been a lifelong goal of mine
to coach basketball at the Division I level and I'm
confident that with hard work, dedication and
enthusiasm Lehigh can become one of the top
programs in the Patriot League."
As head softball coach, Troyan totally rebuilt a
program which finished 7-30 prior to her appointment. Now in her fifth year as mentor, Troyan has
recorded a 109-87-1 record. The Engineers have
won back-to-back Patriot League Championships
and lastyear Troyan was named the league's Coach-
of-the-Year.
Prior to moving into her administrative role as
Director of Athletics Program Budgets last year,
Troyan spent six seasons as assistant basketball
coach at Lehigh. She served as a graduate assistant
coach in her first two years at Lehigh before becoming Lehigh's first full-time women's basketball assistant in 1990.
A 1988 graduate of Dickinson College, Troyan
received her B.A. degree in Economics.   She re-
Sue Troyan was the assistant women's basketball coach from1990-94. Photo by JOE RYAN
Fran Troyan is in his fifth year as an assistant with
the softball team. Photo by JOE RYAN
ceived her M.B.A.. from Lehigh in 1991.
At Dickinson, Troyan was a four year athlete in
both track and basketball. On the court, Troyan
was voted the team's most valuable player following the 1988 season. She was elected team captain
her senior year and made the All-MAC (Middle
Atlantic Conference) first team as well as second
team All-ECAC. In track, Troyan was a three-time
All-American.
Lehigh finished with a 3-24 overall record last
year, 2-12 in the Patriot League.
Following the completion of the softball
season, Fran Troyan will assume the duties
of head softball coach.
"Fran Troyan has been an integral part
of our softball success, even as a volunteer
assistant," Sterrett said. "The continuity he
will provide us as the head coach is exciting.
He has a great rapport with our student-
athletes, a solid background in coaching and
the full confidence of our staff and student-
athletes."
Troyan has worked with the softball team
as a volunteer assistant for the past five
years. A1986 graduate of Allegheny College,
he received his Bachelor's degree in International Studies. He later received his law
degree from The Dickinson College School of
Law in 1989.
At Allegheny, Troyan competed
intercollegiately in both baseball and basketball. He was an Academic All-American
shortstop in 1985 and the First-Team All-
North Coast Atlantic Conference shortstop
in 1985 and '86. While studying for his law
degree at Dickinson, he served as an assistant
basketball coach for two years.
"Having been a part ofthe softball program for
many years, I'm looking forward to continuing the
recent tradition of success that has been established," Troyan said.
Lisa Dorward will continue to serve in her role
as pitching coach. The Engineer softball team
currently features six players from the Lehigh
Valley.
Rise to the top
Lehigh Softball's improvement since Troyan
took over in 1991, culminating in two consecutive Patriot League championships.
The Engineers are on pace to surpass their
29-win mark of 1993.
1990
7-30
1991
10-25-1
1992
21-21
1993
29-15   Patriot League Champs
1994
28-17   Patriot League Champs
1995
21 wins (16 games remaining)