Terrier Volume 75, Number 1 - Spring 2011 | Page 21

Profile of a Terrier

Patti Moffatt Lesser ’77
Patti Moffatt Lesser ’77 has been on the move her entire life. Teaching and coaching college,

high school, elementary, and even nursery-level students over the course of her career, she jokes that
she’s the only person who has ever “worked her way down.”
become part of it.”
While she admits to the thrill that comes
Today, nearly 40 years after the implemenwith coaching high school and college level
tation of Title IX, the federal law that requires
volleyball—which she did for St. Francis
schools that receive federal funds to provide
College early in her career—as well as
equal opportunity to female and male
coaching and teaching Phys Ed. for several
student-athletes, Ms. Lesser works to drive
independent, Catholic and public schools in
home the message to middle and high school
New York City—she says that it is equally
athletes that they are benefiting from the
exciting to work with kids when they are first
struggles and sacrifices of generations of
getting started with movement, physical