INDIANAPOLIS --- The NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee announced that Pat Dillon, a long-time college official and US Lacrosse rules administrator, has accepted the position of secretary-rules editor on the committee.

"We are very pleased to make this announcement,” said Karen Borbee, head coach and senior woman administrator at Swarthmore College. “Pat is highly-respected in the women’s lacrosse community and is experienced in writing the rules and working within a committee structure at US Lacrosse. We look forward to having Pat on board to assist in governing the rules specific to the college game.”

The secretary-editor is the official rules interpreter for the NCAA playing rules committees. Playing rules deal with what occurs on the field during competition when an official and an opponent are present. These rules apply to regular- and post-season competition.

The rules committee will meet June 19-23 in Indianapolis to complete the first-ever NCAA women’s lacrosse rules book.

Dillon has been employed as a library services consultant since 1976 at Costabile Associates, Inc. in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her bachelor’s degree from Towson State University in 1972, and for the past 15 years Dillon has served as chair of the US Lacrosse rules committee, which currently governs the playing rules for all levels of women’s lacrosse.

In addition to Dillon, the current members of the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee are: Danie Caro, Quinnipiac University; Kelly Amonte Hiller, Northwestern University, vice chair; Jenny Levy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Barbara Questa, St. Bonaventure; Cecil Pilson, Mercyhurst College; Karen Borbee, Swarthmore College, chair; Christine Paradis, Amherst College; Kathy Railey, Villa Julie College.