Mollie Marcoux Explained
Mollie Marcoux |
Current Title: | Commissioner |
Current Team: | LPGA |
Player Sport1: | Ice hockey |
Player Years2: | 1987–1991 |
Player Team2: | Princeton |
Player Sport3: | Soccer |
Player Years4: | 1987–1990 |
Player Team4: | Princeton |
Admin Years1: | 2014–2021 |
Admin Team1: | Princeton |
Admin Years2: | 2021–present |
Admin Team2: | LPGA (Commissioner) |
Mollie Marcoux Samaan is an American athletics administrator who is currently serving as the commissioner of the LPGA. Marcoux formerly served as athletic director at Princeton University from 2014 to 2021. She previously served for nineteen years as an executive for Chelsea Piers Management in Connecticut,[1] prior to beginning her career in athletic administration. Marcoux, a native of Ithaca, New York,[2] attended college at Princeton University, where she played on the school's women's ice hockey and soccer teams.[3] [4] [5] In four seasons, she scored 18 goals and recorded 11 assists as a forward for the soccer team,[6] [7] and as a forward in hockey she is ranked second in both goals and assists at the school with 120 and 96, respectively.[8] [9] Marcoux was named athletic director at Princeton University on April 15, 2014.[10] [11] [12] She was appointed to be the ninth commissioner of the LPGA in May 2021.[13]
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- News: Director At Stamford's Chelsea Piers Named Athletic Director At Princeton. April 24, 2014. Trumbull-Monroe Daily Voice. Renner, Tom. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228130454/https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/trumbull/business/director-at-stamfords-chelsea-piers-named-athletic-director-at-princeton/445974/. live. February 28, 2019.
- Alden . Bill . Coming Home . Princeton Magazine . September 2014 . December 29, 2021.
- News: Having Made History as Legendary Princeton Athlete, Mollie Marcoux Named as School's First Female AD. April 23, 2014. Town Topics. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228200355/http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2014/04/23/having-made-history-as-legendary-princeton-athlete-mollie-marcoux-named-as-schools-first-female-ad/. live. February 28, 2019.
- News: Princeton selects Mollie Marcoux as new athletic director. April 15, 2014. The Trentonian. Peruffo, Nick. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228232831/https://www.trentonian.com/sports/princeton-selects-mollie-marcoux-as-new-athletic-director/article_1c13b938-8b5e-5847-aeed-002abced3d8d.html. live. February 28, 2019.
- News: PU tabs Marcoux as new AD. April 22, 2014. Princeton Packet. Nuse, Bob. February 28, 2019. https://archive.today/20240528093827/https://www.webcitation.org/76W3FCnTC?url=http://www.centraljersey.com/sports/the_princeton_packet/princeton-pu-tabs-marcoux-as-new-ad/article_0bf643d3-23cb-5965-8c56-48369393181d.html. dead. May 28, 2024.
- Web site: Women's Soccer Individual Records (Records through 2021 season) . . December 29, 2021 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170416144152/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/9/3747927.aspx . April 16, 2017.
- News: PU women booters shave Vermont, 2–1 . . C7 . September 27, 1987 . December 29, 2021.
- Web site: Women's Hockey Individual Records (Through 2019–20 season) . . December 29, 2021 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211229171428/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/27/womens-hockey-individual-records.aspx . December 29, 2021.
- News: Marcoux named Ivy League's best . . B1 . January 17, 1991 . December 29, 2021.
- News: Mollie Marcoux named Princeton University's new athletic director. April 16, 2014. The Times. Franklin, Paul. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228044744/https://www.nj.com/times-sports/2014/04/mollie_marcoux_named_princeton.html. February 28, 2019.
- News: Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director. April 15, 2014. Fox Sports. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228045929/https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director-041514-3. February 28, 2019.
- News: Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director. April 15, 2014. The Washington Times. February 28, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190228050115/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/15/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director/. February 28, 2019.
- Web site: Who is Mollie Marcoux Samaan and what does she have planned for the LPGA? . 26 May 2021 .