Field Hockey

Lewis Tabbed to Coach in Victory Sports/NFHCA Senior All-Star Game

Posted: Nov 19, 2019

STANDISH, Maine – The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) has announced that Saint Joseph's College Head Coach Rupert Lewis has been selected to coach in the 2019 Victory Sports/NFHCA DIII Senior All-Star Game.

The annual exhibition game, which will be played this coming Saturday in Manheim, Pennsylvania at the Spooky Nook Sports Complex (5:00 PM), features the top 60 NCAA DIII senior players from around the country. SJC senior midfielder Libby Pomerleau (Limerick, Maine) is one of the 60 players to be chosen to play in the prestigious all-star contest.

This fall, Lewis earned GNAC Coach of the Year honors for the third time in the last four years after leading the Monks to their fourth-consecutive conference championship. Saint Joseph's completed the season with an 18-4 overall record, including an 8-0 mark in conference play, and outscored opponents by a collective 62-23 margin.

The winningest coach in program history, Lewis owns a 193-92 (.677) record over 15 seasons.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.