Anni McDonough Zukauskas
'98
At ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é:
- Captain for both the lacrosse and field hockey teams
- Led the team in scoring for both teams
- Received First Team Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association honors in field hockey in 1998 and First Team honors in UCAA all four years for lacrosse
- Named the New York State Player of the Year Award in 1998
- Zukauskas holds the University records for all-time leading scorer and most goals scored in a game for lacrosse
- Was the recipient of the Merle Spurrier Award at ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é in her senior year
Post-Graduate:
- Joined the visual arts faculty and coaching staff at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass
- Coached field hockey and girl’s lacrosse and helped lead the varsity girl’s lacrosse program to its second I.S.L. championship in the school’s history
- Taught and coached at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2014
- At Poly, she built the lacrosse program and rook the team to multiple state semifinal and final championship games
- A school administrator, faculty, and head varsity lacrosse coach as of 2015 in Thayer Academy
- Was inducted into Thayer’s Athletic Hall of Fame for her accomplishments as a student athlete and later as a coach in 2009
- Now resides outside Boston, Mass., with her husband, Tom, and their two children, Anne Marie (5) and T.J. (4).
