Linda Vollkommer-Lynch
Title: Head Coach
Experience: 35th Season
Alma Mater: New Jersey City University '70
Email: linda.vollkommer-lynch@stevens.edu
Bio: Linda Vollkommer-Lynch enters her 35th season as head coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology women's fencing team in 2008-09. In her 34-year coaching career at Stevens, Vollkommer-Lynch has compiled a record of 315-240. With that mark, she ranks 23rd on Stevens' list of all-time winningest coaches. For the eighth year in a row, Stevens has reached the 10-win plateau. It has also accomplished this feat 12 times in the last 13 seasons.
The squad is looking forward to a successful season in 2008-09 as the program will celebrate its 35th anniversary of the sport’s existence at Stevens. Vollkommer-Lynch helped to implement women’s fencing back in 1974. Since then she has seen her teams compete in over 555 meets and is able to boast a winning percentage of 0.568.
For the 2007-08 season, Vollkommer-Lynch helped guide the Ducks to a 10-7 mark. She saw five of her fencers qualify for the NCAA National Tournament. At the Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference team event, the squad finished fifth overall as five fencers received all-conference accolades. The season also featured a bronze medal performance from the foil squad at the National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association Championships. Natalia Chabebe and Laura Sodon earned medals during their outing at the event. These accomplishments marked the first time in Stevens’ history that the Ducks were awarded medals for the sabre and foil weapons at the NIWFA's. Furthermore, Vollkommer-Lynch helped to produce the first-ever EWFC Woman of the Year in Chabebe. The award annually recognizes a particular fencer who has best exemplified excellence in three areas - academics, athletics and participation in extracurricular activities.
In 2006-07, Vollkommer-Lynch notched her 300th victory on February 11th versus Yeshiva University in which Stevens registered a 16-11 win over the Maccabees. Furthermore, she guided five fencers to the NCAA Championships.
During her coaching career, Vollkommer-Lynch has collected many awards. In the 1980-81 and 1993-94 seasons, she was named the NIWFA Coach of the Year. She was also named the New Jersey Collegiate Athletic Directors Coach of the Decade in 1990. That same year, Vollkommer-Lynch was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at her alma mater, New Jersey City University. A Hudson County Athletic Hall of Fame inductee in 2000, Vollkommer-Lynch clinched a share of the EWFC Coach of the Year award from 2000-04. Moreover, during the 2000-01 campaign, she helped the Ducks to the inaugural EWFC Championship. And then, in 2005-06, Stevens recorded a second-place finish in the conference, while registering an impressive 18-5 record in dualmeet action.
As a fencer, Vollkommer-Lynch experienced great success throughout her playing career. In 1983, she won the New Jersey State Championship and was a finalist in the first ever Garden State Games. Vollkommer-Lynch was a participant in the National Sports Festival in 1981 and 1982 and the US Women's Fencing Olympic Trials in 1984.
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