Saints Head Coach Jennifer Kroll
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Fourth season at St. Lawrence, ninth as a head coach

One of the top young coaches in the country, Jennifer Kroll has been a proven winner during her four years at St. Lawrence University. With an impressive 82-27 (.752) overall and a 46-10 (.821) conference record, Kroll has settled for nothing less than success during her stint as the Saints' head coach.

Kroll led the Scarlet and Brown to a 24-5 overall record and an 11-3 Liberty League record in 2008, while guiding the team to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth and their first conference tournament championship since the inception of the league in 2004. She notched her first NCAA win with the Saints against William Paterson in the opening round of the tournament, en route to taking the Scarlet and Brown the furthest they've gone in NCAA action since 2002. In the Liberty League, St. Lawrence was regular season runner-up behind nationally-ranked William Smith, who the Saints upended twice throughout the season--once in league play, and the other in the conference championship title game.

In guiding the 2006-07 Saints to a 24-4 overall record and a 13-1 conference record, St. Lawrence set a program record for consecutive wins with 20 straight victories and seized the regular season Liberty League Championship. Using the qualities that earned her the 2007 Russell Athletic/ WBCA East Regional Coach of the Year Award—an award given by the WBCA to just eight Division III coaches in the nation—she developed forward Katie Palmer into the 2007 Liberty League Player of the Year as a sophomore. The Saints league dominance in 2006-2007 did not go unnoticed as Kroll received the 2007 Liberty League Coach of the Year Award to complement her list of post-season praises.

Setting the foundation during her first two years on the job, Kroll guided the Saints to back-to-back Liberty League Championship games and just six league losses in two seasons. She has coached 11 all-conference players. The women's basketball team has been well-known for their academic achievements, with the team having the highest GPA of any other athletic team on campus in both 2007 and 2008. In 2008, six athletes earned conference All-Academic honors, the most of any team in the league.

Kroll arrived at St. Lawrence after establishing herself as one of the nation's brightest young coaches at the University of Chicago, where she was head coach for four seasons and guided the Maroons to a 15-9 record in 2000-01, their first winning season in six years. Kroll was responsible for leading 15 players to All-University Athletic Association recognition and three players to All-UAA Rookie of the Year honors.

Kroll got her first head coaching experience at Ithaca College, where she spent the 1999-2000 season. Although her stint was short, her success was paramount as she invigorated the program from a 12-12 team in 1998-99 to a 21-7 finish under her reign. She coached the Bombers to an NYSWCAA Championship, an ECAC Championship, and an Empire 8 Conference Co-Championship. She was named Empire 8 Coach of the Year.

Elite competition is something Kroll finds herself very familiar with. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Kentucky and was an assistant at Cornell University from 1995-1999.

A 1991 graduate of Northwestern University, Kroll spent her playing years around some of the best opposition in the country. She played in two NCAA Division I tournaments as a player and was part of the 1990 Big Ten Conference championship team. She earned her bachelor's degree at Northwestern in 1991 and her master's degree in sport management at Kentucky in 1995.