Elizabeth Ford

Biography

Through 20 seasons, Elizabeth Ford has won over 70 percent of her games (221-90-1; .710) and three North Coast Athletic Conference championships, while maintaining Wooster's reputation as one of the best NCAA Div. III women's lacrosse programs in the 2000s within the Fighting Scots' region. She was named senior woman administrator in August, 2021, and has primary responsibility for athletics diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and Title IX coordination, in addition to her coaching duties. Highlighting Ford's tenure, the Fighting Scots added NCAC titles in 2007, 2009, and 2010, marking their fourth, fifth, and sixth over a 10-year period, and with them, received berths into the NCAA Tournament. Her teams have reached double-digit win totals 16 times. Ford was the 2009 IWLCA West Region Coach of the Year, and has earned conference coaching laurels four times. She was inducted to the Ohio Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2021. In 2025, Ford guided the squad to a program-record 17 wins and a berth in the NCAA Div. III Championship, where Wooster won its first-round game for the first time in program history. Outside of Wooster, Ford gained international coaching experience during the summer of 2011, as she headed the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) under-19 team at the Women's Lacrosse World Championship in Hannover, Germany. Ford was named the College's head coach in July 2005, after serving as the head girl's lacrosse coach at Wooster High School. She was an assistant coach at Wooste