Coaches
Sally LaPointe (1934-2007) was a central figure in the establishment of women’s athletics at Bowdoin. She was hired as the first woman coach in 1972 after she voluntarily coached Bowdoin’s first women’s sport, field hockey, in 1971. She coached women’s field hockey for twenty years. In the spring of 1974, she founded the women's lacrosse team, which she coached for nineteen years. She also coached the women's basketball team for their first season in 1974. LaPointe supervised the entire women’s athletic department (field hockey, basketball, squash, tennis, volleyball, and badminton) and was inducted into Bowdoin’s Athletic Hall of Honor in 2006 for her integral role in the development of the women’s athletic department.
Sally LaPointe with lacrosse coach Mortimer LaPointe, photograph, circa 1975