HUNTSVILLE | The University of Alabama in Huntsville Department of Athletics announced the program's first-ever head women's lacrosse coach on Monday, revealing that Gail Wallach will be the first to lead the Chargers in the department's newest sport.
 
Wallach most recently served as the head coach at Emmanuel College in Franklin Spring, Georgia, and she will lead a program in the Rocket City that starts play in the spring of 2016. In her two years at Emmanuel, Wallach coached one All-American and four all-conference honorees.
 
She has also made stops in her career as head women's basketball coach at Rutgers University-Camden, Drew University and Washington College. Wallach mentored 17 all-conference selections during her basketball coaching career.
 
Before taking over the head coaching duties at Washington, Wallach also served as an assistant coach for the women's basketball and lacrosse programs.
 
Wallach was a three-sport star at Kean University prior to her coaching career where she remains in the program's top five in ground balls. She was also talented on the hardwood, earning All-American status as a basketball player, and she owns the single-season program record for scoring average with 24.7 points per game. She totaled 1,679 points during her basketball career. Along with basketball and lacrosse, Wallach lettered in field hockey in her time at Kean.
 
Wallach graduated with a bachelor of arts from Kean following her four years as a student-athlete, and has gone on to earn her MBA from the University of Phoenix.