Jennifer Rauscher was brought on as a volunteer assistant in 2010, promoted to part-time assistant coach in 2013, and recently completed her eighth season with the Quakers and head coach Colleen Fink in 2017.
Penn has won at least 11 games overall in three of the last five seasons, a feat previously accomplished just twice in the first 40 years of the program's history as a varsity program (1973-2012). In both 2013 and 2015, the Quakers entered their final regular-season game at Ellen Vagelos Field playing for a share of the Ivy League title and the league's NCAA Championship automatic bid.
Penn did not have a first-team All-Ivy player from 2008-12; in the last five seasons, the Quakers have had six. After placing just one woman on the All-Ivy teams in Fink's first season (2010) and two in her second season (2011), Penn has had four women receive All-Ivy recognition in four of the last six years. In addition, Penn had the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2013 (Jasmine Cole) and 2014 (Alexa Hoover), and in both cases they were named first-team All-Ivy as freshmen, the first times that happened in program history.
Hoover earned NFHCA All-America as both a sophomore and junior, becoming the program's first All-America since 2003, just its third since 1989, and just the third player in Penn history to be a multi All-America selection. At the NFHCA All-Region level, Penn had no players recognized from 2008-12 but has had 10 in the last five seasons including five first-team selections. Hoover also became the programs first four-time First Team All-Ivy selection and just the fourth in Ivy League history.
Hoover, Elise Tilton, Elizabeth Hitti, and Emily Corcoran each participated in the NFHCA Senior All-Star Game during the NCAA's championship weekend from 2014-17, prior to that stretch, Penn had not been represented at the event since 2004.
Rauscher graduated from La Salle University in 2006, after finishing a four-year career with the Explorers field hockey program. She served as a team captain in 2005.
She works as a registered nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
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