Patriot League Success Stories - Where Are They Now?

Mary-Alice Zavocki, Lehigh '95

July 25, 2005

Name: Mary-Alice Zavocki
Institution: Lehigh University
Sports: Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse
Position: Goalie
Graduation Year: 1995
Undergraduate Major/Minor: History and Urban Studies/Psychology and Education

THEN:

• Dean's List Spring 1994
• Dean's List Fall 1994
• 1994 Lehigh University Field Hockey Athlete of the Year
• 1994 ECAC Regional All-American, 1st Team
• 1994 Patriot League Field Hockey Champions
• 1994 Patriot League Field Hockey Tournament Most Valuable Player
• 1994 Patriot League Field Hockey Defensive Player of the Year
• 1995 LVAIAW Outstanding Athlete, Field Hockey
• Three-time First Team All - Patriot League (Field Hockey)
• Five-time Patriot League Player of the Week (Field Hockey)
• 1994 First Team All - Patriot League (Lacrosse)
• 1994 Patriot League Lacrosse Champions

• Our Lady of Sorrows School Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award Winner, 2004
• Middle School Teacher - Computer Education (3 years)
• Basketball Coach - Our Lady of Sorrows Grammar School Team (9 years)
• Basketball Coach - Amateur Athletic Union, New Jersey Cyclones (7 years)
• Basketball Coach - Amateur Athletic Union, New Jersey Crusaders (3 years)

Thoughts on how your competitive experience as a Patriot League student-athlete helped you achieve professional or personal goals:

My experiences as a student-athlete at Lehigh University have been a great assistance and influence in the development of my character and molding me into the person that I am today. Patriot League athletics taught me how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals because winning does not come easily. My first season at Lehigh saw my team win one game, yet my career culminated with a fifteen-win season and a Patriot League championship. It took enormous effort and committed teamwork, two values that I now teach my players, in order for us to become champions. The life lessons in perseverance that I learned through sports have been invaluable assets, as I have become a highly successful coach. I help kids achieve their dreams of playing college basketball, including my sister, who will pursue college glory on the court instead of the field, when she enters her freshman year at Lafayette College in September 2005.