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Assumes Reins of Women’s Lacrosse Program FERRUM, Va. – Director of Athletics Abe Naff has announced that Karen Harvey has accepted the position of Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Ferrum College. Harvey will join the Ferrum athletic staff on March 1st, and will be the College’s first ever full-time Women’s Lacrosse Coach. Harvey will replace Celia Mosier, who has served the past three seasons as head coach for both the women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse programs, at the end of the spring season. Mosier and Harvey will work in tandem to coach this year’s team, with Harvey taking the reins this summer. Mosier will continue in her capacity as Head Women’s Soccer Coach. Since 1995, Harvey has served as Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Physical Education Instructor at Hollins University. Harvey has also served as Hollins’ Sports Information Director. Prior to joining the staff at Hollins, Harvey served as Assistant Girls Basketball Coach at William Byrd High School and Head Girls JV Coach at Patrick Henry High School, both from 1994-95. Prior to that, she served as a Biology and Chemistry Teacher at Staunton River High School from 1993-94, and Head Athletic Trainer at Radford High School from 1992-93. Harvey is a certified athletic trainer with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and has been a certified weight trainer with the International Weightlifting Association. Harvey holds professional memberships with the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, the National Athletic Trainers Association, the Virginia Athletic Trainers Association, and the College Sports Information Directors of America. Harvey received her bachelor’s degree in physical education from Roanoke College in 1991. She then earned her master’s degree in exercise science from Virginia Tech in 1993. Harvey played basketball four years at Roanoke. At the close of her senior year in 1991, she was the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Year, a Division III Kodak All-American, and Roanoke’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year. In 2001, Harvey was inducted into the Roanoke College Athletic Hall of Fame. Her jersey (#42) has been retired at Roanoke. Harvey is the wife of Ferrum Head Women’s Basketball Coach Bryan Harvey, who is in his first year with the program after a stellar coaching career at Glenvar High School in which he led the Lady Highlanders to a pair of state titles in 1997 and 2002. # # # |
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