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Linda MacDonald concluded her 10th season as the head coach of Pacific's field hockey team after leading the Tigers to a 7-11 overall record and a 4-2 NorPac Conference mark in 2007. In her 10 seasons at the helm for Pacific, MacDonald has led the Tigers to a combined 69-103 record. Her overall record as a head coach is 106-112-2. Prior to taking the Pacific reins in 1998, MacDonald served as an assistant coach at Pacific for 11 seasons. In addition to coaching at Pacific, MacDonald is a part-time faculty member at San Joaquin Delta College, where she teaches adaptive physical education. This season may have been one of MacDonald's best coaching efforts as a youthful Tigers team struggled to a 1-9 start to the 2007 season. Rather than looking toward the future, MacDonald helped her team rally to win six of their final eight contests, including a 3-2 win over NorPac rival California in Pacific's final home game of the season on Oct. 20. MacDonald and the Tigers equalled the most victories in school history in 2006, finishing the season with an 11-8 overall mark and a NorPac record of 4-2. In the Tigers' second game of the season, Pacific upset No. 6 American for the team's first win over an opponent ranked in the top-10 in school history. Their 11-8 record marked the team's third winning season over the course of the last five years. MacDonald-led teams have authored a litany of records including mosts goals in a season (43 - 2006), most victories in a single season (11 - 2004 & 2006) and third fewest goals allowed in a season (27 - 2003). In addition, MacDonald led the Tigers to Pacific's second appearance in the NCAA Tournament following the 2004 season. During that historic season, the Tigers won a program record seven-straight games to claim the NorPac Championship and defeat Louisville, 1-0, in the NCAA Play-In game at Brookside Field in Stockton, Calif. For her efforts in 2004, MacDonald was named the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) West Region Coach of the Year as well as the NorPac Conference Coach of the Year. MacDonald has also remained active within the field hockey community and she completed a Federation of International Hockey coaching course at the Training Center in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2005. In addition, she has been a coach and a director in the National Futures Program and in 2007 was a selector for West Regional Futures Tournament. Before coming to Pacific, MacDonald was the head coach at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., from 1984-86, where she amassed an impressive 37-9-2 record and earned an appearance in the NCAA Division III Final Four in 1986. MacDonald also served as the head coach at Westford Academy (1977-83), where she led Westford to the Central Massachusetts Championship and a state semi-final appearance, losing to Frontier Regional, 2-1 in overtime. Following her coaching and teaching career in Westford she moved to California and earned a master's degree in sport sciences from Pacific in 1991. MacDonald earned her bachelor's degree in 1973 from Springfield College (Mass.), graduating with cum laude honors. During her undergraduate study, MacDonald was also a four-year starter on the field hockey team, which went 24-6-5. She also competed on the U.S. National Field Hockey squad in 1976. |
 
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