Mollie Marcoux
Current position
TitleCommissioner
TeamLPGA
Playing career
Ice hockey
1987–1991Princeton
Soccer
1987–1990Princeton
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2014–2021Princeton
2021–presentLPGA (Commissioner)

Mollie Marcoux is an American athletics administrator who is currently serving as the commissioner of the LPGA. Marcoux formerly served as athletic director at Princeton University from 2014 to 2021. She previously served for nineteen years as an executive for Chelsea Piers Management in Connecticut,[1] prior to beginning her career in athletic administration. Marcoux, a native of Ithaca, New York,[2] attended college at Princeton University, where she played on the school's women's ice hockey and soccer teams.[3][4][5] In four seasons, she scored 18 goals and recorded 11 assists as a forward for the soccer team,[6][7] and as a forward in hockey she is ranked second in both goals and assists at the school with 120 and 96, respectively.[8][9] Marcoux was named athletic director at Princeton University on April 15, 2014.[10][11][12] She was appointed to be the ninth commissioner of the LPGA in May 2021.[13]

References

  1. ^ Renner, Tom (April 24, 2014). "Director At Stamford's Chelsea Piers Named Athletic Director At Princeton". Trumbull-Monroe Daily Voice. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Alden, Bill (September 2014). "Coming Home". Princeton Magazine. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  3. ^ "Having Made History as Legendary Princeton Athlete, Mollie Marcoux Named as School's First Female AD". Town Topics. April 23, 2014. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  4. ^ Peruffo, Nick (April 15, 2014). "Princeton selects Mollie Marcoux as new athletic director". The Trentonian. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  5. ^ Nuse, Bob (April 22, 2014). "PU tabs Marcoux as new AD". Princeton Packet. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  6. ^ "Women's Soccer Individual Records (Records through 2021 season)". Princeton Tigers. Archived from the original on April 16, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  7. ^ "PU women booters shave Vermont, 2–1". Home News Tribune. September 27, 1987. p. C7. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  8. ^ "Women's Hockey Individual Records (Through 2019–20 season)". Princeton Tigers. Archived from the original on December 29, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  9. ^ "Marcoux named Ivy League's best". The Ithaca Journal. January 17, 1991. p. B1. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  10. ^ Franklin, Paul (April 16, 2014). "Mollie Marcoux named Princeton University's new athletic director". The Times. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  11. ^ "Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director". Fox Sports. April 15, 2014. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  12. ^ "Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director". The Washington Times. April 15, 2014. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
  13. ^ "Who is Mollie Marcoux Samaan and what does she have planned for the LPGA?". 26 May 2021.

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