Jill Murphy Myers (2019) - Richmond Athletics Hall of Fame

Jill Murphy Myers

Induction:
2019
Class:
2002

A first team All-Conference standout and Offensive Player of the Year when Richmond won its first Atlantic 10 title in 2002, Jill Murphy Myers spearheaded an era of excellence for Spider field hockey as a student-athlete and an assistant coach.

As a senior captain, Murphy helped the 2002 team reel off a program-record 14 consecutive wins en route to a 17-7 overall mark and 6-0 in the A-10. She set the single-season assists record with 19, a mark that still stands in 2019. She left the program as the career assists leader, and is currently second with 31.

The Spiders swept through the 2002 A-10 tournament and defeated Rider in their first-ever NCAA Tournament play-in game before falling to No. 1 Old Dominion. Murphy was named A-10 All-Tournament Team, All State and All South Senior All-Star. She was selected to play in the North/South Senior All-Star game.

Following her playing career, she joined coach Ange Bradley's staff as an assistant and helped guide the Spiders to three more A-10 championships from 2003-2005. In that four-year span as a senior student-athlete and coach, Murphy was a part of Spider teams that went 69-21 overall and 25-0 in the A-10 regular season and 8-0 in the A-10 tournament.