DOMINICAN TABS BRECHBIEL AS NEW HEAD LACROSSE COACH

October 10, 2008

DOMINICAN TABS BRECHBIEL AS NEW HEAD LACROSSE COACH

Orangeburg, NY (10/10/08) Dominican College Director of Athletics, Joseph Clinton, has named the hiring of Taryn Brechbiel as the new Head Women's Lacrosse Coach.

Orangeburg, NY (10/10/08) Dominican College Director of Athletics, Joseph Clinton, has named the hiring of Taryn Brechbiel as the new Head Women's Lacrosse Coach.

A 2007 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas College, Brechbiel was a four year member of the women's lacrosse program where she was named to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Merit Squad and Academic Honor Roll for three straight seasons.

"Taryn will be a welcomed addition to the Athletic Department," said Clinton. "Her enthusiasm and love for the game is apparent and I believe that she has the tools to build our women's lacrosse program into one of the elite programs in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC)."

While at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Brechbiel was a member of the Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society, the Alpha Chi National Honor Society and the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. She also received the 2007 Francis Cardinal Spellman Award for highest academic excellence in an undergraduate program.

Brechbiel earned her B.S. in Business Administration and is currently pursuing her MBA in Finance from St. Thomas Aquinas College.

"I'm very excited to take the next step in my lacrosse career as a coach here at Dominican College," Brechbiel said. "Playing college lacrosse was one of the best times of my life, and I hope to provide these student-athletes with the same type of positive experience I had. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to coach this team and can't wait to get started."

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.