Samantha Valder
Head Coach
Email
607.871.2628

Samantha Valder was appointed head coach of women’s lacrosse in the summer of 2005.

Valder comes to AU from St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, NC, where she was head coach from 2003-05. Prior to that she served as assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, NY, from 2001-03.

She played a season at SUNY Cortland before transferring to Finger Lakes Community College, where she played a year before finishing her collegiate playing career with two seasons at Division I Central Connecticut State University. She was a two-year starter at center attack at Central Connecticut, during which time she was second on her team in goals and points.

Valder earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Central Connecticut State University in 2001.