Feb. 3, 2023 — A quiet legend to retire this 12 months

I didn’t need to go to far with out acknowledging that one of many longest-serving collegiate discipline hockey coaches will likely be making the 2023 fall season her final.

Enza Steele has been an amazing servant of the sport in her 45 years on the College of Lynchburg, profitable some 645 video games. She’s the fourth-winningest coach of all time behind solely Karen Shelton, Nancy Stevens and Sharon Pfluger, that are a few of the biggest names in discipline hockey teaching.

Lynchburg has toiled within the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains since its existence, and has labored within the shadow of Division I Liberty College in recent times because the latter made the NCAA ultimate in 2021. However the staff has been in a position to stay the category of the Previous Dominion Athletic Convention, getting gamers from not all around the nation, however even from Europe. 5 overseas gamers dot Steele’s roster.

As a lot as Lynchburg has succeeded over time, it has by no means gained a nationwide championship. Steele’s 22-4-1 staff from 1981 got here the closest, ending second within the AIAW title recreation simply earlier than the change to NCAA sanctioning.

Will that change in 2023? It will be a storybook ending for an impressive profession.