Jenny Levy

Jenny Levy is an American lacrosse coach and former player, born in Baltimore, Maryland. As a player at the University of Virginia from 1988 to 1992 she helped the Cavaliers win the first national championship in the school's history at the 1991 NCAA tournament, where she was named most outstanding attacker as the top scorer of the event. She was a first-team All-American and the 1992 NCAA Attacker of the Year, and she played for the United States women's national lacrosse team in 1992 and 1993 and again in 1995. In October 1994 she became the first women's lacrosse coach at the University of North Carolina and built the Tar Heels program from nothing. North Carolina has won NCAA championships under her in 2013, 2016, 2022 and 2025, and she has twice been named National Coach of the Year. She was named head coach of the United States women's national team in November 2017 and was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2021.