June 1, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact:  Carole Grills
(413) 585-2703

 Ginsberg Named Field Hockey Coach at Smith College

Northampton, MA:  Director of Athletics, Lynn Oberbillig, announced today that Jaime L. Ginsberg has been appointed field hockey coach at Smith College. A 1999 graduate of Slippery Rock University, Ginsberg received her Master of Education degree in Sports and Recreation Administration from Temple University this spring.

             Ginsberg has served as the field hockey coach at Friends Select School in Philadelphia for the past three years. Prior to her position at Friends, Ginsberg coached field hockey, winter track and junior varsity lacrosse for three years at her alma mater George School where she was an outstanding athlete graduating with twelve varsity letters. She founded and served as player/coach for the women’s lacrosse club team while at Slippery Rock and was a founding member of the Cosmo Club Field Hockey team in Philadelphia. Ginsberg served as a site director and head coach for the United States Field Hockey Association in Colorado Springs from 2001-2004 and been a head coach at the Nike Field Hockey camps under Katharine DeLorenzo since 2004.

             “We are excited to have Jaime join our coaching staff as only the fourth field hockey coach in Smith’s history,” said Oberbillig. “Her enthusiasm for teaching and coaching field hockey as well as her recruiting contacts in the Philadelphia prep schools will allow Jaime to hit the ground running building on the Smith field hockey tradition.”