Cornell University Athletics

Devoy has a 110-91 overall record in 12 seasons at Cornell University, guiding the program to eight consecutive seasons as the sixth- or seventh-ranked program in the country by the College Squash Association. The Big Red finished the 2015-16 season 10-9, marking the fifth consecutive season in which it posted a winning record — and it so with just one senior regularly competing in scoring matches.

Under Devoy's tutelage, Danielle Letourneau '15 was a four-time CSA All-America First Team selection, making her just the second Big Red student-athletie to achieve that feat in program history. She advanced as far as the quarterfinals at the CSA Individual Championships for three straight years. Letourneau wrapped her career on East Hill with a cumulative record of 42-23, with all but two of those matches coming from the No. 1 position.

Immediately upon her arrival, Devoy coached her team on to the Kurtz Cup in her first four seasons. The Big Red went on to win the 'B' flight of the national championships in the latter two years of that stint (2007 and 2008) before ascending to the top flight in each of the last eight season. In 2006, Devoy was presented with the Clarence C. Chaffee Award, which is given annually to the coach whose team has demonstrated the qualities of sportsmanship, teamwork, character, and improvement.

Prior to her time at Cornell, Devoy was the assistant squash pro and administrator for the squash department at the Heights Casino, where she helped train players on nationally ranked college squads from Harvard, Princeton and Yale. 

She has also had impressive international playing and coaching experience. She played professionally from 1979-83 in both London and France, earning the No. 1 ranking in France and winning the inaugural French Open women’s championship. She was also a member of the winning squad at the 1984-85 New Zealand national club team tournament.

A member of the junior national team in New Zealand, Devoy was a finalist in the nation’s under-21 tournament. While working as a partner in a sports retail business from 1986-2000, Julee was a volunteer coach working with the junior and senior members of the Hamilton squash and tennis clubs and was a training partner for former world No. 1 player Leilani Joyce and top 100 players Louise Crome and Kylie Lindsay.

Devoy and her husband Mark, the men’s squash coach at Cornell, reside in Ithaca.