ATHLETICSMeltzer named<strong>Lehigh</strong> Rowing Coach<strong>Lehigh</strong> <strong>University</strong> has named Liz Meltzer as the Steven J. ’69and Karen A. Lee Head Rowing Coach. Meltzer, who hasserved as an assistant coach at <strong>Lehigh</strong> since the start of the2005-06 season, replaces Paul Savell who left <strong>Lehigh</strong> in Julyto become the Director of Rowing atDrexel <strong>University</strong>. Her duties includeoverseeing the entire rowing program,coaching the women’s teams anddirecting the recruitment efforts.“I am honored to be appointed to leadthe rowing program at <strong>Lehigh</strong><strong>University</strong> and am excited to build onthe successful traditions that Paul Savellinstilled during his time as the HeadCoach,” Meltzer explained.“I know I am inheriting a stableprogram that enjoys the support of the<strong>Lehigh</strong> <strong>University</strong> Athletic Departmentand is full of stellar student athletes. Iplan to build on our successful spring season by promoting ateam culture that is deliberate in our acquisition of boat speedand relentless in our pursuit of excellence in all endeavors, beit on the water or in the classroom.”Meltzer quickly appointed Jason Moorehead as theprogram’s Head Men’s Varsity Coach. Moorehead has beenan assistant at <strong>Lehigh</strong> for the past seven years. During histime with the <strong>Lehigh</strong> Crew, Jason has been very successful onthe freshman level and I am confident that he will be able toproduce fast varsity crews consistently.”During her time at <strong>Lehigh</strong>, Meltzer has been responsiblefor a number of duties, including the planning, organizationand oversight of the rowing program’s recruitment effort.Through her efforts, the program secured commitments from28 rowers this past June, making up the first-ever <strong>Lehigh</strong>rowing recruiting class. On the water, the Washington, D.C.native led the <strong>Lehigh</strong> freshmen women’s crew to a secondplace finish at the <strong>2006</strong> Navy Day Regatta, as well as first andsecond place finishes at the <strong>2006</strong> Frostbite Regatta and atop-ten finish at the 20<strong>07</strong> Dad Vail Regatta.Prior to coming to <strong>Lehigh</strong>, Meltzer served as the head coachof the American <strong>University</strong> rowing program in Washington,D.C. for three years. While at American, Meltzer also coachedDeMatha High School’s freshmen men, Walter JohnsonHigh School’s varsity and novice teams and she served asthe associate coach for the intermediate masters of the D.C.Strokes Rowing Club. While under Meltzer’s leadership, theAmerican <strong>University</strong> crew won the 2003 Dad Vail NoviceLightweight 8 Championship race, and had crews take firstand second at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta as well as theHead of the Occoquan.Meltzer earned her bachelors degree from The JohnsHopkins <strong>University</strong> in 2002 where she served as captain ofthe crew. She later went onto earn her masters degree fromAmerican <strong>University</strong> in Health Promotion Management in thesummer of 2005.Maurer set to leadVolleyballProgramWith plenty of energy anda desire to teach the game,Jenny Maurer enters herfirst season at the helm ofthe Mountain Hawks asthe volleyball program’s11th head coach. Whatmakes Maurer’s appointmentunique is that <strong>Lehigh</strong>is the first collegiate teamshe has coached.“It is a dream come true,” said Maurer, a native of St.Louis, Mo. “I have a deep passion to teach the game andstepping into this position, I will be doing just that. I havemet the team and have found them to be a classy and resilientgroup of athletes. Last year’s record speaks nothingto who they are as people or athletes and they are readyto learn and do whatever it takes to bring the volleyballprogram back to Patriot League prominence and beyond.”Teaching and coaching will be no strange tasks forMaurer, who spent the last seven years as a Social Studiesteacher for the Rockwood School District in Missouri whileserving as head coach of St. Joseph’s Academy in St. Louis.At St. Joseph’s, Maurer was 182-63 and led the team to fiveDistrict and Sectional championships. She also guided herteams to consecutive second place finishes in the MissouriClass 4 State Championships for the last three years andsaw her team rank nationally in the top 100 for the lastfour.Maurer played all four years of her collegiate career atWashington <strong>University</strong> under legendary Teri Clemens,who was the winningest coach in NCAA history at thetime of her retirement in 1998. Maurer was a member ofthe Washington <strong>University</strong> squad that won the NCAADivision III National Championship in 1995 and 1996,advanced to the NCAA Final Four in 1997 and made it tothe NCAA quarterfinals in 1998.Individually, Maurer was a distinguished athlete withmultiple conference, regional, and national honors to hername. She was named First-Team All-<strong>University</strong> AthleticAssociation three times and was also a three-time First-Team All-South honoree. At the 1996 Final Four, Maurerwas selected to the Final Four All-Tournament Team. In1997 and 1998, Maurer received First-Team All-Americanstatus from two different outlets—the AVCA and Asics/Volleyball Magazine. From 1996-98, she was selected asDivision III National Player of the Week three times.Maurer graduated from Washington <strong>University</strong> with aB.A. in Psychology in 1999 and then received her mastersin Education from Lindenwood <strong>University</strong> in May 2003.Maurer and her husband, Todd, have a son, Hudson,who was born in <strong>2006</strong>.
Facility UpdateATHLETICSMark WogenrichThe Morning Call, originally appeared in the July 19, <strong>2006</strong> edition.BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Construction is nearly complete on a golf practice complex on the Goodman Campus thatwill house driving, putting and chipping ranges as well as a clubhouse. The idea was a brainchild of <strong>Lehigh</strong>’s ILE(Integrated Learning Experience) project, which consisted of a group of students ranging anywhere from financeand accounting to civil engineering and architecture majors, whose assignment was to finalize a business plan forthe practice complex.<strong>Lehigh</strong>’s new project will cover approximately 75 acres of leased farmland that straddles Bethlehem and LowerSaucon Township on the Goodman campus. The facility, which is not being marketed to the public, will featuretwo practice greens (one for putting, one for chipping and bunker shots) and a driving range overlooking GoodmanStadium and Stabler Arena.<strong>Lehigh</strong>’s men’s and women’s golf teams will benefit from the range, which will give them a designated place topractice. The teams play rounds at Saucon Valley Country Club but use ranges at Center Valley, Wedgewood orBethlehem Municipal. In addition, students, faculty and <strong>Lehigh</strong> alumni will be able to use the facility.Sterrett and economics professor Vincent Munley last year convened a team of engineering, architecture, businessand journalism majors to market-test the golf project on campus and design the facility. With an endowmentfrom an anonymous donor (a <strong>Lehigh</strong> graduate), the golf facility is scheduled to be built without money from theschool’s athletic budget. Sterrett hopes the project will be self-operating and won’t require university investment.‘’We didn’t want to be in the golf course business,’’ Sterrett said, ‘’but we are in the education business. To have aplace where people can learn to play the game will be enormously valuable to a community like this.’’This is the second project on the Goodman Campus that <strong>Lehigh</strong>’s ILE program has designed, with the Ronald J.Ulrich Sports Complex, a soccer, field hockey and lacrosse facility with lighted grass and astro turf surfaces, whichwas completed in the summer of 2001.
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