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Pam Stuper enters her fourth season as head coach, and 12th season overall at Yale, in 2008. Stuper, a member of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame, helped lead Yale to three ECAC Championships (1998, 2002 and 2003) in her eight seasons as an assistant. She was promoted to head coach in February of 2005 after Ainslee Lamb moved on to Boston College.
Yale has seen success both on and off the field during Stuper's tenure as head coach. The 2007 team put together a six-game winning streak that was Yale's longest in four years. The Bulldogs also had their first All-American in six years (Harriet Thayer, third team). All told, Stuper has had four All-Region selections (three first team, one second team) and 11 All-Ivy selections (four first team, five second team, two honorable mention) in her three seasons at the helm.
Yale earned National Academic Team honors in each of Stuper's first two seasons as head coach and had a total of 25 National Academic Squad selections. She also had a pair of Academic All-Ivy selections, an NCAA postgraduate scholarship winner and a Kiphuth Student-Athlete Distinction Award honoree.
Prior to joining the Yale staff, Stuper was an assistant coach at James Madison University from 1993-1995, helping the Dukes win the NCAA Championship in 1994. A 1992 graduate of Old Dominion and member of the ODU Hall of Fame, Stuper was a key part of three national championship teams and was a two-time All-American. She also was named GTE-CoSIDA Academic All-American in 1992.
A nine-year member of the U.S. National Team, Stuper participated in three World Cups (1990, 1994 and 1998), one Pan-American Games (1995) and two Champion's Trophy Tournaments (1995, 1997). She was an alternate for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team. Stuper earned a silver medal in the 1995 Pan American Games and a bronze medal in the 1994 World Cup.
Stuper added to her international experience by playing for the Amsterdam Ladies First Team, which was Dutch National League Top Division runner-up in 1996-1997. Stuper did a residency with the U.S. National Team in Atlanta in 1995-96 and remains active in the national field hockey scene. In 2007 she served as a manager for the National Team's Netherlands tour and at the Champions Challenge in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Stuper worked as a coach at the USFHA's Elite Performance Training Center for the New England region in 2005 and 2006 and was an assistant coach for the New England team that also included two of her players (Ali Rotondo and Harriet Thayer) and both of her coaches (Tamara Durante as an assistant coach and Abby Ostruzka as a player) in 2007. In the summer of 2006 she coached the U-19 U.S. team at the Can Am Games in Virginia Beach, Va.
Stuper also serves as Second Vice-President of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association, a position she has held since 2005.
Stuper resides with her husband John, the Yale baseball coach, in Hamden. In addition to her USA Field Hockey and Old Dominion honors, she is also a member of the Hempfield High School Hall of Fame (Lancaster, Pa.).
