13th Season

Lisa Bervinchak-Love, one of the top players in Penn State field hockey history, is now entering her 13th year on the sideline under head coach Charlene Morett. During her time at Penn State, she has assisted on several highly successful teams, including the 2005 team that won 17 straight games, the 2002 squad, which reached the NCAA Tournament title game, and the 1995-1998 teams, all of which won the Big Ten Tournament in their respective seasons.

As a player, Bervinchak-Love -- who played three years for the Nittany Lions after transferring from Villanova following her freshman campaign -- scored 28 goals in her career. A co-captain as a senior, she led the team in scoring with 12 goals and three assists and was named to the Atlantic-10 all-conference team. She scored two of the Lions' goals at the 1988 Atlantic-10 Conference semifinals and was an all-tournament selection. Following her graduation in 1989, Love continued to play field hockey at the national level. In 1991, she helped her team win a silver medal at the Olympic Sports Festival in Los Angeles.

A standout student, she was the Student Academic Advisory Board representative at Penn State in 1988. In 1989, Love graduated with a degree in health planning and administration and worked as an intern with the planning and marketing department at Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania.

Following her internship, she was a Penn Manor School District elementary school teacher and assisted head coaches in field hockey and basketball. She also held teaching positions at Central Manor, Farmdale, Burgard and Brecknock Elementary Schools.

Throughout the years, she continued her involvement with the Nittany Lion program as an assistant director and instructor at Penn State camps. Love was a four-sport athlete at Penn Manor High School and earned all-star honors in field hockey, basketball and was the district champion in the triple jump. She continues to play field hockey today and captured the US Indoor Title with the Norlanco Club in 2003 and 2004. She currently plays with Red Rose and helped them win the 2006 club championship.

Love comes from a family of coaches and athletes. Her brother Jude is the wrestling coach at Hempfield High School in Lancaster, Pa., and brothers, Greg and Kevin, are his assistants. Her dad James, meanwhile, was a football standout at Minersville High School. Her parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

She married Steve Love, a Penn State alumni and graphic artist with Supelco, in 1996. They have two daughters, Taylor Marie and Kelsey Evelyn.