Chris Pier
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- Title:
- Associate Director of Athletics - Budget and Compliance/Senior Woman Administrator
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- Phone:
- 847-735-5288
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- Email:
- cpier@lakeforest.edu
Chris Pier joined the Forester staff in 1995 and was promoted to her current position of Associate Director of Athletics - Budget and Compliance in May of 2019. She is also the College's senior woman administrator.
Pier was on the Forester women's tennis coaching staff from 1996-2009 (head coach from 1996-98 and 2008-09) and the softball team from 1996-2004 (head coach in 1996). She helped lead the tennis team to conference championships in 1999 and 2003 and the softball team to three consecutive league titles beginning in 2002. She was a member of the 2002 National Fastpitch Coaches Association NCAA Division III Coaching Staff of the Year.
Prior to coming to Lake Forest, Pier spent seven years as an assistant softball and basketball coach at fellow Midwest Conference member Lawrence University.
Pier received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from St. Norbert College, another school in the MWC, in 1987. She was an all-conference performer in both softball and basketball and participated in eight conference tournaments during her collegiate career.
Pier is a member of both the St. Norbert College and St. Mary Central (WI) High School Halls of Fame and Lake Forest's 2002 softball team was inducted into the Forester Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.
She resides in nearby Waukegan, Illinois.