| Jenny Levy | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | North Carolina Tar Heels |
| Current Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Virginia |
| Uslaxhof Year: | 2021 |
Jenny Levy is an American college lacrosse coach and former player who has been the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels women's lacrosse program since its inception in 1994. She has led North Carolina to three NCAA championships and has twice been named the National Coach of the Year.[1] [2] She was also named as the head coach of the United States women's national lacrosse team in November 2017.[3] She was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2021.[4] [5]
Born in the lacrosse hotbed of Baltimore,[6] Levy played the sport at the University of Virginia from 1988-1992 and was a member of the United States women's national lacrosse team in 1992-1993, and then again in 1995. She was named as a first-team All American and as the 1992 NCAA Attacker of the Year.[6] She was named as one of the top 50 players in ACC history in 2002.[7] [8]
From 1993 to 1994 she was the assistant women's lacrosse coach at Georgetown University. In October 1994, she became the University of North Carolina's first women's lacrosse coach.