Hall of Fame
- Highlights: Two-time MVP of the Slippery Rock field hockey team and the team's leading scorer for three straight years, also served as captain of the women's basketball team, went on to a decorated career coaching field hockey that included 24 years at Old Dominion University.
Susan Myers is one of the prominent names in the sport field hockey in the United States and is being enshrined in the Rock Athletics Hall of Fame for her excellence as an athlete and a coach.
Myers was a force on the field hockey field at Slippery Rock in the early 1970s, leading the team in scoring with 25 goals in 1971, 1972 and 1973 to finish her career with 75 goals. She served as a team captain for her junior and senior years and also served one year as a team captain with the women's basketball team. Myers was a two-time team MVP with the field hockey team and also picked up the 1973 basketball MVP award.
She spent seven years as a player with the U.S. Women's National Field Hockey Team, beginning while she was still a student at SRU in 1972 and playing through 1979. She played on the first United States I.F.W.H. World Cup team in 1975 and played all over the world, including stops in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, England, Wales, South Africa, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba.
Myers was a five-time national club team champion and two-time winner of the John F. Kennedy Tournament MVP award. She was a player and co-founder of the Red Rose Field Hockey Club based in southeastern Pennsylvania from 1975-85.
During her time as an athlete, Myers also began her career as a coach and educator. She became Carlisle Senior High School's head coach of basketball, field hockey and softball in 1973 and worked as an educator in Pennsylvania for 12 years before becoming a graduate assistant coach with the field hockey program at Old Dominion University in 1987. She became a full-time assistant in 1988 and held that position for 24 years before retiring from ODU in 2012.
Her tenure at Old Dominion included a one-year stint as the head coach, where she led the team to a conference title and trip to the national tournament in 2003. Myers and head coach Beth Anders built one of the best field hockey programs in NCAA history during their tenure at ODU. All told, the program posted a 431-124-5 record during her 24 seasons with the team. The Monarchs won six national titles and at one point put together an incredible streak of 66 consecutive victories that stretched from 1990-93.
Myers and Anders co-authored numerous field hockey publications, including "Field Hockey Steps to Success," a book that was published in 1999 and released with a second edition in 2008.
Now retired, Myers currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
