Zenevitch Tallies 100th Field Hockey Win at Anna Maria
PAXTON, Mass.—Anna Maria field hockey coach Sharon Zenevitch reached her 100th field hockey win on Saturday in dramatic fashion, as the team's senior captain Kylie Dalbec (Portland, Maine) netted the game-winner in the last minute of the game against Johnson & Wales University.
The win was important on many levels, as it sealed a third-place finish in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) regular season for the AMCATS. The team will host a first-round playoff game against Mount Ida College on Saturday, October 31st at 10:00 a.m.
Zenevitch is in her 13th official season at Anna Maria, but those seasons span decades, as she has come to coach the AMCATS on three separate occasions. She also totaled 148 wins in 10 seasons as the softball coach at Anna Maria to bring her total win count to 248. No coach in the history of Anna Maria College has won more than Zenevitch has.
Currently amidst a 12-win season, Zenevitch led the 2013 AMCAT field hockey team to a program-best 15 wins and to the program's first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. Presently, Zenevitch is in her fifth-continuous year on the AMCAT sidelines and has guided the team to five-straight tournament appearances.
Zenevitch has led the AMCAT field hockey program through both good times and bad times during her career. She first coached the Anna Maria field hockey team in 1988, where the team totaled two wins. Her first four-season stay with the AMCATS saw her total 19 wins in four years.
In 1999, she returned to the AMCAT sidelines for five seasons, coaching first a club team and then bringing the team back to varsity level—where the team went winless for both the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Under Zenevitch's leadership, the 2002 squad saw more success than the program had seen in a decade, finishing 10-8 for the team's first winning season since 1992.
Zenevitch's on-field success has been achieved while also maintaining a full-time career as a nurse at Saint Vincent's Hospital and raising three children.
