Missy Doherty came to Princeton in 2000 as an Assistant Coach. In her three seasons at Princeton spanning 2001-2003, the Tigers won 3 Ivy Championships and 2 National Championships. After Princeton, she took the Head Coaching job at Towson where she led those Tigers for 7 years, including three CAA Championships, and an at-large berth to the 2010 NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history, and their first-ever top 10 national ranking in the IWLCA Division I poll. Now, in her 12th year at Penn State, Doherty's guidance has taken the Nittany Lions to seven NCAA Tournaments and four NCAA Quarterfinals. In 2015, she was named Big 10 Coach of the Year and ECAC Coach of the Year.