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PA Express 2011 finishes strong summer season with fifth-place showing at National Club Championships

The PA Express 2011 girls' club team enjoyed a strong 2009 summer season, capping it with a fifth-place finish in the Club National Championships (for rising juniors) July 17-19 at the Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds. PA Express, comprised mostly of players from Chester County, won all four pool play games at the National Championships and finished 6-2 overall in the 72-team field. Read the rest of the article at PhillyLacrosse.com

PA Express 2014 Wins BATTLE AT PRINCETON Tournament

Pa Express 2014 with middle school players from Kennet, Unionville, West Chester, Lionville, Downingtown and Villa Maria swept the first ever Battle At Princeton for first place in the Middle School Division. The Express outscored their opponents 48-12 behind strong defense and the goaltending of Abby Lawson and McKenna Coyle.

2014 PA Express

Front row (L-R): Sam Collins, Jackie Lutza, Courtney Smith, Megan Parsons, Taylor Basile, Lauren McEnroe. Middle Row (L-R): Audrey Siana, Rachel Hughes, Breanna Gillespie, Abby Lawson, Jackie Conners, Shannon Connors. Top Row (L-R): Coach Kevin J. Ryan, Charlotte Berg, Alex Archambault, McKenna Coyle, Jillian Zubilaga, Erin O'Keefe, Nicole Barretta, Anna Kowalczyk, Coach Marianne Parsons

At the Senior B Champion's Cup, 2012-Orange outscored their opponents 39-4. The team was 2-0 before USTC canceled the remain games due to rain.

Greer, O'Donnell to be inducted for National Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Jen O'Donnell is a coach of the 2012 PA Express Orange team.

From Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 5/21/09

Former Harriton great Cheri Greer Brown and nationally-recognized Philadelphia women’s umpire Jennifer Miller O’Donnell have been selected to be inducted in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

The two, along with six others, will be formally inducted in a ceremony on Nov. 7 at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md.

O'Donnell, a West Chester resident and graduate of Upper Perkiomen, has spent the last 15 years umpiring at the international level (1994-present). O'Donnell has been umpiring women's lacrosse for 25 years in the Philadelphia Chapter and is recognized as one of the most respected umpires in the nation.

An All-American scholastic player at Upper Perk, she graduated from West Chester and has been rated to umpire in International games for 14 years. She has worked 18 Division I Final Four tournaments and 10 championship games.

On the international front, she officiated in the U-19 World Championship held in Perth, Australia in 1999. Two times to date Jen has officiated in the Women’s World Cup Championship held in 2001, in High Wycombe, England, and in 2005, in Annapolis, Md. She still coaches field hockey at Bayard Rustin.

O'Donnell was inducted into the US Lacrosse Philadelphia/Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame (2009).

The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, sponsored by US Lacrosse, was established in 1957 to honor men and women, past and present, who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of lacrosse to our way of life. More than 325 lacrosse greats are honored in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which is located with the Lacrosse Museum at US Lacrosse Headquarters in Baltimore.

2013 Blue Takes First ...Twice!
The 2013 Blue Team won the Championship at the 2009 Summer Showcase in MD AND The Irish Skirmish in April.