When former USF Vice President for Athletics Michael Kelly was trying to launch a women’s lacrosse program, he focused on Jacksonville University coach Mindy McCord.
Her teams won a lot — 21 combined regular-season and conference tournament championships. She was the conference coach of the year eight times. She recruited and developed 13 All-Americans and 26 All-Region selections. And she also launched the program at Jacksonville, so that experience would be helpful in starting one at USF.
But Kelly noticed there was something more than just stringing wins together and collecting trophies…