This photograph shows (left to right with class years) Sherren Granese (’83), Kathy Bell (’83), Barb Freeman (’82) and, kneeling, Coach Dottie Zenaty (’65) at the National Sports Festival held in Syracuse during the summer of 1981. The three students, all members of the US Squad, competed at the festival. Both Freeman and Granese played on the gold-medal-winning North team, while Bell was a member of the South team, which placed second and was coached by Dottie Zenaty. While a student at Springfield College, Dottie Zenaty played tennis, field hockey, softball, and basketball. She then served as the head field hockey coach for thirty-four seasons, during which she coached more matches than any other coach in college field hockey history. With a record of 377-233-43 (.610 winning percentage), she also won more matches than any coach in New England and ranks fifth on college field hockey’s all-time victory list. In 1988, Zenaty assisted with the selection of the U.S. Olympic Team. The following year, she served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Junior Under-21 Team that competed in the first World Cup Championship and coached the Junior National squad in the Pan-American Games. She has coached in five U.S. Olympic Sports Festivals and supervised four NCAA Division I Championships. Zenaty retired in 2004 and was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame that year.
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