Kateri Linville Hometown: Moorestown, N.J. High School: Moorestown High School Position: Assistant Coach Experience: 5th year Alma Mater: University of Delaware '03

Kateri Linville begins her fourth season as an assistant coach with the Notre Dame women's lacrosse team in 2009.

Linville has been a key member of head coach Tracy Coyne's coaching staff as she keeps a keen and watchful eye on the Notre Dame defense. In her three seasons with the Fighting Irish, Linville has helped Notre Dame to a pair of trips to the NCAA tournament (2006, 2008), including the best record in the program's history - 15-4 in 2006 - and a run to the NCAA Final Four that season.

The 2008 campaign saw the Irish set school records for caused turnovers, averaging 12.0 per game. Notre Dame also set school marks for total draw controls with 272, a total that was the second-best average in the BIG EAST (14.31 per game).

The Irish were 12-7 overall and 4-1 in the conference, good for a second-place finish. During the season, the Irish won for the first time ever at Georgetown and at Duke while finishing the year ranked 12th in the nation. In three seasons of guiding the Notre Dame defense, Linville has seen six of her players receive postseason honors.

Meaghan Fitzpatrick was a first team all-BIG EAST selection in 2007, following a second team honor along with teammate Mary Carpenter in 2006.

Last season, defender Becky Ranck and defensive midfielder Shannon Burke were second team all-BIG EAST selections. Carpenter, Fitzpatrick and goalkeeper Carol Dixon were second team IWLCA all-Region choices in `06 with Fitzpatrick repeating in `07. Ranck and Burke were second team IWLCA all-region choices following the 2008 season.

A native of Moorestown, N.J., Linville joined the Notre Dame staff in 2006 after serving two seasons as a volunteer assistant at the University of Virginia. During her two years on the staff at Virginia, the Cavaliers claimed an ACC and NCAA Championship in 2004 and returned to the national title game in 2005.

Linville got her start in coaching in the spring of 2003 as an assistant at Moorestown High School where she helped her alma mater to its fourth straight New Jersey state title and a No. 2 ranking by Lacrosse Magazine.

A 2003 graduate of the University of Delaware, Linville made an NCAA appearance in 2000, was a four-time scholar-athlete and was named captain of the 2002-03 squad.While a student at Delaware, Linville toured Germany in 2001 and 2002 working with the German National Team. She also served as a camp director and coach for several German Lacrosse Clubs. She continues to serve the lacrosse community as a clinician and a member of US Lacrosse's Coach Education Program.

Linville graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction in health and exercise science and received her Masters of Education with a concentration in sport & exercise psychology from Virginia in 2007.