PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

George Chis-Luca

Title:	Head Coach
Phone Number:	215-951-5374
Email Address:	chisg@philau.edu

Profile

George Chis-Luca is in his fourth season at the helm of the Philadelphia University women’s lacrosse program.

In Chis-Luca’s first three seasons, the Lady Rams have been one of the top teams in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC). The team has appeared in all three CACC championship tournaments and won inaugural conference title in 2009.

Last season Chis-Luca was tabbed as the CACC coach of the year after leading the Lady Rams to an 11-7 overall record and the team’s second trip to the conference final. A conference-high seven players represented Philadelphia University on the All-CACC team including CACC player of the year Caribeth Shappell.

The Lady Rams have placed 11 different players on the All-CACC team, including two CACC players of the year—Katherine Sullivan (2009) and Shappell—in Chis-Luca’s tenure. Kathryn Maurer was selected to participate in the 2010 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association North-South Senior All-Star Game.

Before arriving at Philadelphia University, Chis-Luca was the head boy’s lacrosse coach at Northern Burlington High School during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The Greyhounds posted a 12-5 record in 2008—a 10-win improvement— and won the division title. He also served as the head JV football coach and assistant varsity football coach at Northern Burlington from 2006 until 2008.

Chis-Luca, a 2004 graduate from Rowan University—where he founded the school's ice hockey club in 2001—with a degree in health and physical education, is a physical education teacher at the New Grange School in Princeton, N.J. He previously held that title at Northern Burlington and Ocean Avenue Elementary School. At Ocean Avenue he was named the teacher of the year.

Kathryn Ehlinger

Title:	Assistant Coach
Phone Number:	215-951-5374
Email Address:	heaneyk@philau.edu

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Kathryn Ehlinger enters her fourth year as an assistant lacrosse coach at Philadelphia University in 2011-12.

Ehlinger's previous experience includes a three-year stint at Rosemont College as an assistant lacrosse and basketball coach from 2002-04. While at Rosemont the lacrosse team saw it's best finish in history in 2004, when the team advanced to the semifinals of the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference (PAC).

The PA native also coached at various lacrosse summer camps in the area from 2002-04.

Ehlinger played NCAA Division I collegiate lacrosse at Old Dominion University from 1996-00 at both defense and attack. She led the team in caused turnovers her senior year and was also named to the STX South Senior All-Star Team.

She was a three-sport athlete at Episcopal Academy, competing in field hockey, basketball and lacrosse. She currently resides in Plymouth Whitemarsh, PA with her husband, Matt and dog Charlie.

Sue Dotsey

Title:	Assistant Coach
Phone Number:	215-951-2720
Email Address:	dotseys@philau.edu

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Sue Dotsey joins the Rams as an assistant women's lacrosse coach in 2011-12, her first year.

Dotsey was a stand-out, two-sport athlete at Old Dominion University in soccer and lacrosse from 1995-99. Dotsey was a four-year starter in lax and earned All-CAA honors in 1999, playing center and thirdman. She was an MVP and team captain in both sports. Dotsey graduated from ODU in 2000 with a degree in sport management.

As a coach, Dotsey helmed the women's lacrosse team at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy from 2010-11, as the team finished as a semifinalist in '10 and finalist in '11. In 2011, she was named Phillylacrosse.com 'Coach of the Year' Honorable Mention Team.

She resides in Havertown, PA with her husband Dan and two daughters-Caroline and Rian.