Former all-conference goalkeeper Salliebeth Finnegan was hired as the Vanderbilt lacrosse program’s first director of operations in September 2015. 

Finnegan comes to Vanderbilt after serving the 2014 season as a undergraduate assistant coach at the University of Oregon, her alma mater where she played goalie for four years. Finnegan ranks third all-time in Oregon history with 273 saves. As a sophomore, she earned second team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honors as she started 13 games for the Ducks. As a freshman in 2010, she posted the third-highest single season save total in school history with 130 saves. 

Finnegan, a native of Long Island, N.Y., graduated from Oregon in 2014 with her bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Teaching and a minor in Business. She spent the last year in the Bay Area as a sales representative for Yelp, Inc.