Bio

Katharine Perry was the first player in the history of Goucher’s field hockey program to score 25 goals during her career. Since her graduation in 1990, only four players have passed her on the all-time list for career goals. She also remains fifth all-time with 59 career points.

She would have likely scored more than 25 goals during her four seasons had she not also put in time in goal for the Gophers. In fact, when compared with all of the other field hockey goalies who have played for Goucher, her .866 save percentage ranks third and her 4.41 goals against average ranks fourth.

The team posted a 9-2-3 record in 1986, one of the best in college history.  Her team won the first ever Chesapeake Women’s Athletic Conference (CWAC) Field Hockey Championship in 1986 when they beat Hood College by a 2-0 score.  Goucher’s goals were scored by Wendy Thompson and Jackie Farley.

Ironically, the record book does not comment much on the championship run.  However, the head coach in 1986, Joan Keyser,  did observe  that they “had an absolutely fantastic faculty-student game at the end of the season, won by the faculty 15-14”.  Faculty members of note who played were Joan Morrison, Jean Baker and Joe Morton.

The 1987 team finished with a 7-6-1 record and the team lost to the College of Notre Dame in the CWAC Championship game on “the fourth penalty stroke of the set in near darkness.”  Perry, who was the Goucher field hockey program’s MVP in 1988 and again in 1989, was on Team I of the Maryland Woman’s Colleges All-College Team both years and also represented the school at the National Field Hockey Festival Tournament in Irvine, California, in 1988, playing on the Southeast Team II.  Her coach, Jean Goldsborough, observed that “the 1988 team was probably one of the strongest teams in skill and experience in Goucher’s history.”

Perry also competed in lacrosse and swimming while she attended Goucher. In the sport of lacrosse, a sport that she never played before coming to Goucher, Perry credits her Coach, Joan Keyser, as being “a great coach and teacher”.  Proof of Keyser’s ability to teach the game can be seen by the fact that Perry is ranked third all-time behind Kristin Carey and Courtney Crangi in career goals for women’s lacrosse with 136. Perry served as co-captain of the team in 1989 and 1990.  She was named team Most Valuable Player in 1987 and 1988.  She was also the Most Improved Player in 1987.  Her Coach, Joan Keyser, described Perry as “the spark plug of the midfield” after the 1988 season.  In her senior year, 1990, Perry scored 64 goals in 12 games.  In one game she scored 11 goals.  Overall, she averaged 5.33 points per game in that final 1990 season.  She finished her career with school records for points in a season (71), goals in a season (64) and most goals in a single game (11).  All these records have subsequently been broken.

Following graduation, Perry attended Indiana State University where she earned her master's degree in athletic administration in 1992. While at Indiana State, she began her coaching career with a two-year stint as an assistant field hockey coach for Depauw University. After receiving her master's, she took a position at Oberlin College as the head field hockey and lacrosse coach in the fall of 1992, becoming an assistant athletic director during her third and final year.

Perry began working at Skidmore College in the fall of 1995 as the head field hockey and lacrosse coach. She led the field hockey team to NCAA Division III playoff appearances in 1998 and 1999, and was named the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year in both of those seasons.

There’s no doubt that where she has enjoyed the most success in the coaching profession, however, is her current location: Middlebury College. Since 2000 she has guided the Panthers to six NCAA Division III national championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) and nine NESCAC titles.  DeLorenzo has amassed a 351-63 record as Middlebury's head coach.  She also served as an assistant lacrosse coach until 2015.