Women’s lacrosse coach reaches 100-win milestone
Penn State women's lacrosse coach Missy Doherty earned her 100th career win Saturday with a 12-9 Nittany Lion victory at home against Johns Hopkins.
Doherty has a 100-58 (.633) career record, including a 21-12 mark at Penn State, where she has been head coach for two years.
The Nittany Lions clinched a winning 2012 conference record with the victory, their third straight. It is the first time Penn State (11-4, 3-2) has achieved 10 wins since 2005, the last time the team earned a berth in the NCAA Championship.
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Jill Knight
Graduate / Visual Journalism
Jill Knight is a graduate of the visual journalism program at Penn State’s University Park campus.
In the spring of 2012, Jill traveled to Rio de Janeiro with a team of students for a short-term international reporting project. Her multimedia piece from the trip won first place in a NPPA quarterly student clip contest and was published in various McClatchy news service publications.
In the fall of 2012, Jill was selected to be a member of the Online News Assocation student newsroom and was invited to attend the Eddie Adams workshop. Jill has worked as a freelance photographer for Polaris Images, The Centre Daily Times, The York Dispatch, The Fayetteville Observer and is a student contributor to Penn State’s CommMedia.
Jill’s photo story, A Navy Officer in Training, recently won 4th place in the Hearst Journalism Awards picture story category.
Jill was most recently a photo intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and will be interning with the Charlotte Observer in summer 2013.
Her work can be seen on her website: http://www.jillianknight.com
