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A Conversation With Haverford’s New Director of Athletics Danielle Lynch brings more than 20 years of experience in college coaching and athletics administration to Haverford.
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he word that kept coming up while interviewing Haverford’s new Director of Athletics Danielle Lynch was: challenge. As she described her athletic, coaching, and administrative career, Lynch spoke about consistently challenging herself to not rest on her accomplishments and to take another step forward—even one that might be daunting. That has landed her in a role 20-plus years in the making, with stops at Susquehanna University, Penn State Harrisburg, Bucknell, and West Point. And before that? She was a runner at
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Rutgers University, who occasionally still competes today. In a conversation with Haverford magazine, the West Orange, N.J., native spoke about how her passion for athletics started, how she went from focusing on a career in disaster management mitigation to coaching, and what she’s learned from her various stops on the way. It all started with her passion for running. I was
a fast kid. There was a street I used to race on, and I was faster than my brothers and his friends, to
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BY CHARLES CURTIS ’04
