Bertie Landes, Head Coach
Ninth Year

A tradition of excellence has been established at Shippensburg, and the formula for consistency and winning formula has been nurtured under the leadership of Bertie Landes.

Landes begins her ninth season as the head coach of the Shippensburg field hockey team, and has compiled more than 300 career wins over her career as a college field hockey head coach. At the helm of the Lady Raiders, Landes has won more than three-quarters of her games, posting a record of 128-37-1 after eight seasons. She has been named PSAC Coach of the Year three times in 1999, 2003 and 2005 while earning National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) South Region Coach of the Year honors twice in 1999 and 2005.

In 2005, was selected as the 2005 Dita/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division II South Region Coach of the Year after leading the Lady Raiders to a school-record 20 wins and the programs' first-ever PSAC championship. It was Landes' third coach of the year award as she was also voted PSAC Coach of the Year and NCAA Division II Coach of the Year by womensfieldhockey.com. She also earned NFHCA South Region Coach of the Year honors in 1999.

Not only did Landes coach her team to a conference title and a 20-win season, but her Lady Raiders were ranked No. 1 in the NFHCA Division II Coaches' Poll for the entire season. Her team was a national semifinalist and played host to the NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship. Shippensburg also set a new school and conference record with 108 goals this year, surpassing the old mark of 100 set by the 2003 team that also advanced to the NCAA semifinals. The Lady Raiders led the nation in scoring all season long and five of Landes' players earned either First or Second Team All-American honors.

In 2004, Landes guided the Lady Raiders to a 16-6 overall record and an 11-3 mark in the PSAC which tied them with Bloomsburg and Indiana (Pa.) for first-place in the regular-season standings. As a result, the team advanced to the NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship for the second consecutive season before losing to Indiana (Pa.), 2-0, in the quarterfinals.

Shippensburg has competed in the PSAC Field Hockey Championship seven times in eight years under Landes, including the last six. The team has been in the championship game in 2003, 2005 and 2006. The team has also finished among the top three teams in the regular-season standings in seven of the last eight seasons, including three-straight first-place finishes from 2003-05.

In 2003, the Lady Raiders advanced to the NCAA Division II championship for the first time in school history, but like the PSAC championship, lost to eventual national champion Bloomsburg.

In seven seasons with Shippensburg, Landes has amassed a record of 68-22 in the PSAC, a winning percentage of .755. Over the last four seasons, she has won 47 out of 58 conference games.

Landes, who reached her 100th victory as the head coach at Shippensburg in 2005, reached her 300th career victory on Sept. 24, 2006 with a 5-0 shutout over Mercyhurst. She is the 19th coach in NCAA history among Divisions I, II and III to win 300 career games.

Prior to joining the Lady Raider program, Landes was the head coach at Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, for 19 years. While there, she was also an associate professor and chair of the health and physical education department.

In 19 seasons at PBU, Landes compiled an impressive record of 179-55-21 (.743). Her teams won 14 Philadelphia Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (PAIAW) championships in her 19 years.

For seven seasons as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Shippensburg through 2005, Landes totaled a career record of 40-53-2 overall and a mark of 24-36 in the PSAC. During her final season in 2005, the Lady Raiders went 8-8 and advanced to the PSAC Women's Lacrosse Championship for the second time in three seasons after posting a 1-14 record in 2005.

Following a rebuilding process in 2002 and 2003, the Lady Raiders posted a 10-5 record in 2004 and just missed out on their first conference championship with a loss to Bloomsburg in the tournament semifinals.

The team finished in third-place in the conference with a 9-3 record. From 2002-03, Shippensburg had a combined record of 7-16 before its breakout season in 2004. In Landes' first two seasons in 2000 and 2001, the Lady Raiders had identical 7-6-1 records.

A former member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Squad, Landes was a defender for seven years on teams that toured Europe, South America, Rhodesia and South Africa before retiring from the squad in 1975. She earned her bachelor of science degree in health and physical education from Lock Haven in 1970 and her master of arts in education from Beaver College in 1983.

A standout player at Lock Haven, Landes was instrumental on a defense that allowed just 22 goals in four years, a span of 33 games, while posting 15 shutouts. During her career with the Lady Eagles, the team posted a record of 29-2-2.

After completing her undergraduate degree, Landes taught health and physical education while coaching field hockey and basketball in the East Pennsbury School District from 1970-75. She then spent two years as the head women’s basketball and tennis coach at Swarthmore College, also serving as an instructor in the physical education department.

For almost 20 years, Landes served as a field hockey umpire on both the high school and college level. She has also been active as a referee women’s lacrosse while coaching at numerous summer field hockey camps.

Landes is a native of Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Gail Schuyler, Assistant Coach
Ninth Year

Schuyler has been along side Landes since her tenure began in 1999 and begins her ninth season as an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders in 2007. She also spent seven seasons as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach under Landes from 1999-2005.

Prior to Shippensburg, she was the athletic director at Philadelphia Biblical University from 1992-99. While at PBU, Schuyler served as assistant field hockey, assistant women’s basketball and assistant softball coach. She also taught classes in physical education and served as a financial aid officer.

A native of Amsterdam, N.Y., Schuyler played field hockey and softball at Philadelphia Biblical where she earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1988. In 1992, she received her master’s degree in athletic administration from The College of New Jersey.