Kara Finnerty returned to Bowdoin in the fall of 2021 to serve as head coach Liz Grote’s lead assistant following a decorated career as a Polar Bear student athlete. A four-year star on both the women’s lacrosse and field hockey teams, Finnerty was an All-American in both sports, the 2017 Most Outstanding First-Year Female Athlete at Bowdoin and the 2020 recipient of the Sidney J. Watson Most Outstanding Multi-Sport Athlete as a senior. In lacrosse, she also received the team’s Ellen Tiemer Trophy by vote of the team and coaching staff and was named a senior captain for the COVID-shortened 2020 women’s lacrosse season. Off the field, Finnerty was a multi-time Academic All-NESCAC and CoSIDA Academic All-American, and was a Sarah & James Bowdoin Scholar majoring in Government & Legal Studies and Francophone Studies. She also coached in numerous camps and clinics for the women’s lacrosse program while at Bowdoin.
