On Sunday, Boston College women’s lacrosse head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein took home her and the program’s first national championship - putting the young coach in elite company in the history of BC athletics.
Walker-Weinstein became the first woman to lead a BC team to a NCAA championship, and the lacrosse team was the first women’s team (and any non-men’s hockey team) to win a NCAA title at Boston College.
The two other coaches who lifted NCAA championship trophies for BC are both true luminaries in BC history: Snooks Kelley, who won the 1949 men’s hockey title, and of course, Jerry York, who won titles in 2001, 2008, 2010, and 2012.