Sweet Briar Athletic Director Kelly Morrison has announced the appointment of Hillary Kate London as head lacrosse and assistant field hockey coach. London comes to Sweet Briar College after serving as the head coach at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island for the past two years. Prior to Salve Regina, London was an assistant and head coach in both sports at Vassar College. Her first day at Sweet Briar will be August 1, 2006.

"I am so excited to have a coach of Hillary's experience join our team and continue to build our Lacrosse program," said Morrison. "Hillary has done an outstanding job developing the program at Salve Regina and she will continue to build the program at SBC." London will also be assisting the Field Hockey program. In two short years she was able to take Salve field hockey from a 5-11 record to a 14-4 finish. Each year she has had a minimum of three players on the All-Conference team and consistently had 12 players selected for the NFHCA and IWLCA Academic Squads.

London will be taking over an already successful lacrosse program. Over the past few years the Lacrosse team has been on the rise, including a semi-final appearance in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championship. This year four Vixens were named to the ODAC Women's Lacrosse All-Conference Team.

London also brings a recreation, leadership and wellness component to the position. While at Salve Regina she was an instructor of new student seminar courses and created a recreation program to serve the students, faculty, staff, and families of the campus community.