CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sarah Albrecht, who captained Northwestern to back-to-back NCAA championships and coached last season at Massachusetts, has been named assistant women's lacrosse coach at Harvard, head coach Lisa Miller announced Friday.

Albrecht helped UMass to an 8-9 record last season after wrapping up her career with the Wildcats in 2006 with a second straight national title. She registered three goals in four assists in her final collegiate game to earn NCAA Championship Most Outstanding Player honors.

As an assistant at UMass, Albrecht assisted the head coach in all aspects of daily operations of the program, including recruiting, practice planning, development of fundamentals, administrative duties, academic oversight, athlete conditioning and editing of game film. She was responsible for planning and conducting stick skills, offensive drills and conditioning during practices. Albrecht was also involved with the defense and assisted in game strategy and substitution decisions.

The Braintree, Mass., native spent five seasons at Northwestern, missing the 2003 campaign with an injury and serving as a team captain every year. Albrecht finished her career ranked fourth all-time at Northwestern in assists (71), sixth in points (199) and seventh in goals (128). In both 2005 and 2006, she was an IWLCA All-America selection, all-tournament pick at the NCAA Championship and first-team all-conference honoree.

In her four years on the field, Albrecht helped the Wildcats to a 58-15 record. As a team captain, she led the program in its rise from its reinstatement as a varsity team in 2002 to a national title in 2005. In 2006, she received the N Club Scholarship and Lisa Ishikawa Award for her leadership.

Albrecht remains active as a player and was recently named to the U.S. Elite women's lacrosse team for the second straight season.

Albrecht graduated from Northwestern in 2006 with a degree in psychology. As a student she volunteered with Special Olympics, the athletic department's field day for low-income children and Northwestern Natural Ties, an organization creating and supporting friendships between people with and without disabilities. She graduated from Thayer Academy in 2001.

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