Julika Blankenship
Julika Blankenship
Title: Head Coach
Phone: 410-778-7257
Email: jblankenship2@washcoll.edu
College: Gettysburg '04
Office Location: Cain Athletic Center - Second Floor

Julika Blankenship has been the head women's lacrosse coach at Washington College since July 2008.

In the spring of 2010, she led the Shorewomen to their best record in six years. In the spring of 2011, Blankenship guided them to 11 wins - their highest total since 2003 - and their first Centennial Conference Tournament berth since that same year.  She was named the conference's Coach of the Year. The following spring, the team reached the Centennial Conference Championship game for the first time ever. In 2013, the Shorewomen reached the conference tournament for the third year in a row, were nationally-ranked for the first time in a decade, and won 13 games.

Prior to taking on a head coaching role, Blankenship served as an assistant women's lacrosse coach at the College for three seasons. She also served as head women's soccer coach from July 2008 to June 2012.

A native of nearby Crumpton, Blankenship starred in both soccer and lacrosse in high school, spending two years at Queen Anne's County High School before transferring to neighboring Kent County High School. In soccer, Blankenship was a three-time All-North Bayside selection and led Kent County to two of the best soccer seasons in the school's history. Blankenship earned North-South Senior All-Star honors as a senior, leading the team in assists and finishing second on the team in goals while serving as a team captain. In lacrosse, Blankenship earned Mid-Shore Player of the Year honors as a junior and senior, recording at least 100 points in each of those two seasons. She was named her team's Most Valuable Player as a senior, leading Kent County to a Regional Championship.

Blankenship went on to have a standout collegiate lacrosse playing career at Gettysburg College, where she finished her career as the all-time leader in both points (309) and assists (160). As a senior captain in 2004, she led the Bullets to their third consecutive Centennial Conference Championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals. She was named a first team All-American by the IWLCA/US Lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse, and Womenslacrosse.com and was selected as the Centennial Conference and ECAC Southern Player of the Year. Blankenship, who was also a second team Inside Lacrosse All-American as a junior, put up back-to-back 100-point seasons in her final two years with the Bullets, breaking the single-season school record for assists in each pf those seasons.

Blankenship graduated from Gettysburg with a B.A. in Spanish in 2004 and spent one year as an assistant women's lacrosse coach for Division I UC Davis before arriving at Washington College. While serving as an assistant coach at Washington, Blankenship earned a Master's Degree in Psychology. 

Heidi Pearce Yetman
Heidi Pearce Yetman
Title: Senior Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator/Defensive Coordinator
Phone: 410-810-7461
Email: hyetman2@washcoll.edu
College: Johns Hopkins '04
Office Location: Cain Athletic Center - Second Floor

Heidi Pearce Yetman was named the senior assistant coach of the Washington College women's lacrosse team in January 2011. She also serves as the team's Defensive Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator. A native of Chestertown, Pearce Yetman has an impressive background as both a player and coach in the sport.

An outstanding midfielder while playing for Division I Johns Hopkins University, Pearce Yetman was a 2004 first-team All-American, a three-time all-conference selection, and a two-time team captain. She was also twice named the Inside Lacrosse National Player of the Week and garnered both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors on her team. As a senior, she helped lead the team to its first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance and was awarded the Cathy P. Cramer Award, given for the most outstanding achievement in women's athletics at Johns Hopkins. Pearce Yetman was also nominated for the Tewaaraton Trophy, given annually to the top women's lacrosse player in the nation. 

After graduating with a B.A. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins in 2004, Pearce Yetman returned to her high school alma mater - St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE - as the assistant women's athletic director. She went on to become the head women's athletic director, head girls lacrosse coach, and head field hockey coach at the school, serving in those positions from 2005 until 2008. She coached the lacrosse team to four consecutive state championship games and was recognized with the Achievement Award for outstanding service to St. Andrew's School.

In her days as a student at St. Andrew's, a boarding school, Pearce Yetman was a two-time Delaware State Lacrosse Player of the Year and high school All-American. She led her team to two state championships, earning first-team all-conference and all-state honors. She also garnered several individual awards including the Coach's Award and Most Dynamic Player and Most Valuable Player honors in lacrosse, field hockey, and basketball. 

Juli Liebig
Juli Liebig
Title: Assistant Coach/Sports Performance Coach
Phone: 410-810-7461
Email: jliebig2@washcoll.edu
College: Longwood '11
Office Location: Cain Athletic Center - Second Floor

Juli Liebig was named an assistant coach for the Shorewomen lacrosse team in August 2011 and added duties as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the department in January 2012. Liebig, who attended nearby Queen Anne's County High School, was a star goalie at Longwood University.

A team captain as a senior, Liebig was named the National Lacrosse Conference's Goalie of the Year twice in her four years and was an all-conference first-team selection. She finished her senior season ranked first in her conference and 16th in all of Division I in save percentage (.470), 13th in all of Division I in total saves (158), and ninth in Division I in ground balls per game (3.17). She helped her team to back-to-back conference championships as a sophomore and junior and was presented with Longwood's Scholarly Athlete Award. She was also named to the 2011 Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) University Division Women's Lacrosse First Team.

Liebig has gained valuable coaching experience while working with Merestead Sports Camps for the past four years and also took coaching classes at Longwood, where she was a member of the Exercise Science Association and the Historian of the Kinesiology fraternity Phi Epsilon Kappa. She earned a B.S. in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Science from the school in 2011.

Liebig is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). She is currently a rehabilitation technician at Chesapeake Physical Therapy in Chestertown where she specializes in injury prevention, assisting patients in improvement in movement, stamina, and coordination.

While attending Queen Anne's County High School, Liebig was a two-time recipient of the Queen Anne's Master of All Sports, earned first-team All-Bayside Conference honors, and helped lead her team to an East Region Championship. She also participated in basketball, soccer, and swimming at Queen Anne's.

Haydon Judge
Haydon Judge
Title: Assistant Coach
College: Florida
Office Location: Cain Athletic Center - Second Floor


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