Northwestern University Athletics
Laurie Schiller Named Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year
9/18/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Fencing
Sept. 18, 2001
EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern fencing head coach Laurie Schiller was named the 2001 Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year, as selected recently by the league's coaches.
Schiller led Northwestern to a 27-4 record last season, including an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Championships and the team's third consecutive Midwest Fencing Conference title.
This is the third time in the last four years Schiller has been honored as Coach of the Year. In 1999, he was the U.S. Fencing Association National Collegiate Coach of the Year.
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Schiller is also a history professor at NU, where this quarter he will teach a course on leadership and a course on South Africa. He recently had a book published by the Blue and Gray Education Society on the evolution of the federal cavalry in the Civil War.
