Mollie Marcoux

{{Short description|American athletics administrator}}

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| current_title = Commissioner

| current_team = LPGA

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| player_sport1 = Ice hockey

| player_years2 = 1987–1991

| player_team2 = Princeton

| player_sport3 = Soccer

| player_years4 = 1987–1990

| player_team4 = Princeton

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| admin_years1 = 2014–2021

| admin_team1 = Princeton

| admin_years2 = 2021–present

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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,{{cite news|url=https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/trumbull/business/director-at-stamfords-chelsea-piers-named-athletic-director-at-princeton/445974/|title=Director At Stamford's Chelsea Piers Named Athletic Director At Princeton|date=April 24, 2014|agency=Trumbull-Monroe Daily Voice|author=Renner, Tom|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228130454/https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/trumbull/business/director-at-stamfords-chelsea-piers-named-athletic-director-at-princeton/445974/|url-status=live|archivedate=February 28, 2019}} prior to beginning her career in athletic administration. Marcoux, a native of Ithaca, New York,{{cite magazine |last=Alden |first=Bill |url=http://www.princetonmagazine.com/coming-home/ |title=Coming Home |magazine=Princeton Magazine |date=September 2014 |access-date=December 29, 2021}} attended college at Princeton University, where she played on the school's women's ice hockey and soccer teams.{{cite news|url=http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2014/04/23/having-made-history-as-legendary-princeton-athlete-mollie-marcoux-named-as-schools-first-female-ad/|title=Having Made History as Legendary Princeton Athlete, Mollie Marcoux Named as School's First Female AD|date=April 23, 2014|agency=Town Topics|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228200355/http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2014/04/23/having-made-history-as-legendary-princeton-athlete-mollie-marcoux-named-as-schools-first-female-ad/|url-status=live|archivedate=February 28, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.trentonian.com/sports/princeton-selects-mollie-marcoux-as-new-athletic-director/article_1c13b938-8b5e-5847-aeed-002abced3d8d.html|title=Princeton selects Mollie Marcoux as new athletic director|date=April 15, 2014|agency=The Trentonian|author=Peruffo, Nick|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228232831/https://www.trentonian.com/sports/princeton-selects-mollie-marcoux-as-new-athletic-director/article_1c13b938-8b5e-5847-aeed-002abced3d8d.html|url-status=live|archivedate=February 28, 2019}}{{cite news|url=http://www.centraljersey.com/sports/the_princeton_packet/princeton-pu-tabs-marcoux-as-new-ad/article_0bf643d3-23cb-5965-8c56-48369393181d.html|title=PU tabs Marcoux as new AD|date=April 22, 2014|agency=Princeton Packet|author=Nuse, Bob|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240528093827/https://www.webcitation.org/76W3FCnTC?url=http://www.centraljersey.com/sports/the_princeton_packet/princeton-pu-tabs-marcoux-as-new-ad/article_0bf643d3-23cb-5965-8c56-48369393181d.html|url-status=dead|archivedate=May 28, 2024}} In four seasons, she scored 18 goals and recorded 11 assists as a forward for the soccer team,{{cite web |url=https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/9/3747927.aspx |title=Women's Soccer Individual Records (Records through 2021 season) |work=Princeton Tigers |access-date=December 29, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416144152/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/9/3747927.aspx |archive-date=April 16, 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91383930/pu-women-booters-shave-vermont-21/ |title=PU women booters shave Vermont, 2–1 |work=Home News Tribune |page=C7 |date=September 27, 1987 |access-date=December 29, 2021}} and as a forward in hockey she is ranked second in both goals and assists at the school with 120 and 96, respectively.{{cite web |url=https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/27/womens-hockey-individual-records.aspx |title=Women's Hockey Individual Records (Through 2019–20 season) |work=Princeton Tigers |access-date=December 29, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229171428/https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/27/womens-hockey-individual-records.aspx |archive-date=December 29, 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91383951/marcoux-named-ivy-leagues-best/ |title=Marcoux named Ivy League's best |work=The Ithaca Journal |page=B1 |date=January 17, 1991 |access-date=December 29, 2021}} Marcoux was named athletic director at Princeton University on April 15, 2014.{{cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/times-sports/2014/04/mollie_marcoux_named_princeton.html|title=Mollie Marcoux named Princeton University's new athletic director|date=April 16, 2014|agency=The Times|author=Franklin, Paul|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228044744/https://www.nj.com/times-sports/2014/04/mollie_marcoux_named_princeton.html|archivedate=February 28, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director-041514-3|title=Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director|date=April 15, 2014|agency=Fox Sports|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228045929/https://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director-041514-3|archivedate=February 28, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/15/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director/|title=Mollie Marcoux is new Princeton athletic director|date=April 15, 2014|agency=The Washington Times|accessdate=February 28, 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228050115/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/15/mollie-marcoux-is-new-princeton-athletic-director/|archivedate=February 28, 2019}} She was appointed to be the ninth commissioner of the LPGA in May 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www.golfchannel.com/news/who-mollie-marcoux-samaan-and-what-does-she-have-planned-lpga | title=Who is Mollie Marcoux Samaan and what does she have planned for the LPGA? | date=26 May 2021 }}