Dec. 4, 2007

PHILADELPHIA- The IWLCA (Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association) is recognizing former Temple coach and Hall of Fame inductee Tina Sloan Green as an important individual in the lacrosse community. The IWLCA has honored a number of individuals this season but is citing Sloan Green for her contributions to the game and the community.

Sloan Green, who led the Owls to the national championship in 1982, 1984 and 1988, was the first African-American woman to coach a team to a national title. A member of the US Lacrosse, Temple, West Chester, and Women's Sports Foundation Halls of Fame, Sloan Green stays active in lacrosse through many avenues, including the BRIDGE program, which helps bring lacrosse to inner-city children. A lifetime advocate for women in sport, Sloan Green retired from coaching in 1992 but did not retire from the sport. The co-founder and President of the Black Women in Sport Foundation, Sloan Green is a professor emeritus in the College of Education at Temple.

She was also director of the Temple National Youth Sports Program. During that time she also amassed a career record of 205-62-4, a 76.4 winning percentage that still ranks seventh all-time and 13th in total wins. During her 32 years at Temple University, Sloan Green was a co-principal investigator of Sisters in Sports Science, a National Science Foundation funded program. The US Lacrosse program is an offshoot of Sloan Green's vision, something she had been doing during her coaching days at Temple. She has co-authored two books, Black Women in Sport and Modern Women's Lacrosse and has written chapters in the books Racism in College Athletics and Basketball Jones.