Carter Marsh Abbott New Jersey native Carter Marsh Abbott became the first female junior in more than a decade to start on three varsity sports teams. She went on to become a four-year starter in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, earning 12 letters in her time at Andover and captaining the basketball and lacrosse teams her senior year. An All-America selection for both soccer (1992) and lacrosse (1993), Abbott also was selected in 1993 as a member and captain of the New England team at the National Schoolgirls lacrosse tournament. She was named one of the Phillipian’s “Athletes of the Year” in 1993; in 2003 the newspaper named her one of the top 10 athletes in PA history.
a member of the 1994 NCAA Division I national championship squad, was a three-time First-Team All-Ivy League selection, and was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1997. In 1995 she earned lacrosse Second-Team All-America honors and was a 1996 and 1997 First-Team All-America honoree. In addition to serving as the Tigers’ team captain in 1997, she competed on the U.S. Developmental Lacrosse team in 1995 and 1996. Abbott earned an MEd degree at Harvard and is now a teacher and coach at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, where she lives with husband Red and daughters Campbell and Quinn. She has coached seven lacrosse players to All-America honors and was inducted into the New Jersey Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January 2010. She currently is an assistant coach for the U-19 United States National Team in lacrosse.
Abbott played lacrosse and soccer for Princeton, foregoing basketball due to the time commitment needed to play a varsity sport at the college level. She was a lacrosse standout: Abbott competed as
1993 basketball team; Abbott is front row, center.
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