May 29, 2007

PHILADELPHIA - Gail Cummings-Danson, one of the top scorers in women's lacrosse history, has been tabbed for induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Cummings-Danson is the sixth Owl to garner US Lacrosse's top honor, joining Tina Sloan Green (1997), Alice Putnam Willetts (1998), Kathleen Barrett-Geiger (2001), Ruth Stevenson (2004), and Mandee Moore O'Leary (2005). 

Cummings-Danson scored an NCAA record 289 goals during her career at Temple, including 88 in 1988 when she led Temple to a perfect 19-0 record and the NCAA Championship.  She also compiled 378 career points, the third best tally in NCAA history and was a three-time All-American, earning first team honors in 1987 and 1988.  Cummings-Danson played for the Canadian national team from 1982-1989 and then helped the United States win the World Cup in 1993.  Currently the athletic director at Skidmore College, she previously coached lacrosse at Connecticut College, Temple and Albany.  She has also been inducted into the Temple Hall of Fame and the Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame. 

The 2007 class, which will be honored in a ceremony on November 10 at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md., also includes Gertrude Dunn, Susan Ford, Tim Goldstein, Susan K. Kidder, Darren Lowe, Sharon Pluger, Karl Rippelmeyer, Thomas Sears and Brian Wood.

The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame 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 Hall of Fame, which is located with the Lacrosse Museum at US Lacrosse Headquarters in Baltimore.