Swarthmore College Athletics

One of the best female athletes of her era, Gwyneth Jones Cote ’84 was a force on the Garnet lacrosse and field hockey teams, playing for fellow Hall of Fame inductee Pete Hess in both sports. Cote holds the lacrosse program record for career points (374) and career assists (176) and ranks fourth all-time in career goals (198). In 1984, she set the Swarthmore and NCAA Division III record for assists in a single season (55), earning First Team All-America honors in the process. Cote also excelled in field hockey, where she was a three-year starter and was twice named to the Division III All-Region Field Hockey Team. She and her husband, John Cote, live in Westfield, N.J., with their two children. Cote has coached her daughter’s lacrosse team for the last several years.