Kerstin Kimel entered 2020 needing just one win to reach the exclusive 300-win club and wasted no time getting it out of the way.
Her Duke team rolled through Gardner-Webb, 22-7, Friday night in Durham. A list of the 10 winningest coaches in Division I women’s lacrosse history is below. Kimel is the seventh to reach 300 victories.
Top 10 Winningest Division I Women's Coaches
Includes coaches who spent at least 10 years as a head coach at a Division I school.
Coach
|
Team(s)
|
Wins
|
Cindy Timchal |
Northwestern, Maryland, Navy |
525 |
Chris Sailer |
Princeton |
415 |
Jenny Levy |
North Carolina |
346 |
Julie Myers |
Virginia |
324 |
Amanda O'Leary |
Yale, Florida |
324 |
Cathy Reese |
Denver, Maryland |
301 |
Kerstin Kimel |
Davidson, Duke |
300 |
Kelly Amonte Hiller |
Northwestern |
296 |
Janine Tucker |
Johns Hopkins |
291 |
Tracy Coyne |
Denison, Roanoke, Notre Dame, George Washington, St. Francis |
287 |
Kimel earned four wins in 1994 with Davidson and then joined Duke ahead of its inaugural season in 1996. On Friday, she earned her milestone win easily. Freshman attacker Caroline DeBellis led the way with three goals and four assists as the Blue Devils sprinted to a 15-2 halftime lead.
Duke continues its opening weekend against Northwestern on Sunday.
Wildcats Drop 30
It seems like Northwestern is ready for 2020.
The Wildcats netted 20 goals in the first half and finished with 30, throttling Detroit Mercy, 30-3. Izzy Scane led with four goals and one assist, and three others — Lauren Gilbert, Dylan Amonte and Jill Girardi — netted hat tricks. Northwestern outshot Detroit Mercy, 45-11.
Thirty goals is tied for the sixth-most in a single game in NCAA history. It’s also the most goals scored by a Northwestern team since April 18, 1987.
The post-Selena Lasota era seems to have started without a hitch, albeit against a lesser opponent. Northwestern gets a better indicator of its offensive punch on Sunday against Duke.