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Linda MacDonald enters her 12th season at Pacific and 15th year of coaching. During her impressive career, she has amassed over 110 wins and a .465 win-loss percentage. Leading the Tigers to their third consecutive 4-2 NorPac Conference finish in 2008, Pacific posted a 6-12 overall record last season. After 11 seasons at the helm for Pacific, MacDonald has led the Tigers to a 74-119 overall record. Prior to taking the reins in 1998, she served as an assistant coach at Pacific for 11 seasons. MacDonald-led teams have authored a litany of records including most 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). 2007 may have been one of MacDonald's best coaching efforts to date, as a youthful Tigers team struggled to a 1-9 start. Rather than looking toward the future, she helped her team rally to win six of its final eight contests, including a 3-2 win over NorPac rival California in Pacific's final home game of the season. In 2004 and 2006, she led the Tigers to the most wins in school history (11), finishing both seasons with a 4-2 record in the NorPac. In the Tigers' second game of the 2006 season, Pacific upset No. 6 American for the team's first win over an opponent ranked in the top-10 in school history. The 11-8 record marked the team's third winning season over the course of the previous five years. 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 defeated Louisville, 1-0, in the NCAA Play-In game on Pacific's home field. 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. 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 was a selector for West Regional Futures Tournament in 2007 and 2009. 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 from Springfield College (Mass.), graduating with cum laude honors in 1973. At Springfield, MacDonald was a four-year starter on the field hockey team and also competed on the U.S. National Field Hockey squad in 1976. Along with her coaching duties at Pacific, MacDonald is also a part-time faculty member at San Joaquin Delta College, where she teaches adaptive physical education. She currently resides in Stockton.
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