Mollie Marcoux

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Marcoux in 2023
Current position
Title Commissioner
Team LPGA
Playing career
Ice hockey
1987–1991 Princeton
Soccer
1987–1990 Princeton
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2014–2021 Princeton
2021–present LPGA (Commissioner)

Mollie Marcoux Samaan is an American athletics administrator who is currently serving as the commissioner of the LPGA. Marcoux formerly served as athletic director at Princeton University from 2014 to 2021. She previously served for nineteen years as an executive for Chelsea Piers Management in Connecticut, [1] prior to beginning her career in athletic administration. Marcoux, a native of Ithaca, New York, [2] attended college at Princeton University, where she played on the school's women's ice hockey and soccer teams. [3] [4] [5] In four seasons, she scored 18 goals and recorded 11 assists as a forward for the soccer team, [6] [7] and as a forward in hockey she is ranked second in both goals and assists at the school with 120 and 96, respectively. [8] [9] Marcoux was named athletic director at Princeton University on April 15, 2014. [10] [11] [12] She was appointed to be the ninth commissioner of the LPGA in May 2021. [13]

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