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2016 USILA Position Players of the Year
Outstanding Midfielder Award
- Division I - Lt. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin, Jr. Award
- Division II - Lt. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin, Jr. Award
- Division III - Fran McCall Award
Long Pole Midfielder Award
Outstanding Attackman
- Division I - Lt. Col. J.L. (Jack) Turnbull Award
- Division II - Lt. Col. J.L. (Jack) Turnbull Award
- Division III - Lt. Col. J.L. (Jack) Turnbull Award
Specialty Player
Short Stick Specialist
Face-Off Specialist
Outstanding Goalie
- Division I - Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award
- Division II - Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award
- Division III - Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award
- Outstanding Defenive Player
- Division I - William C. Schmeisser Award
Division II - William C. Schmeisser Award
- Division III - William C. Stiles Memorial Award
Outstanding Player of the Year
- Division I - Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award
- Division II - Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award
- Division III - Iroquois Nationals Award
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2015 USILA Special Awards
The Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award is presented in honor of one of the sport’s most outstanding coaches. Howdy Myers coached 17 championship teams at St. Paul’s, Johns Hopkins, and Hofstra. Myers was elected to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1971. The nominee for this award should have contributed to the game of lacrosse in a capacity over and above the normal efforts and in so doing, has shown unselfish and untiring devotion to the game. The 2015 recipient of the Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award is:
Bob Scalise, John D. Nichols ’53 Family Director of Athletics, Harvard University
Bob Scalise, the seventh person to hold the director of athletics post at Harvard, oversees the nation's largest Division I athletics program with 42 varsity sports, 63 club programs, more than 1,200 intercollegiate athletes and a broad array of wellness and recreation programs and facilities
A 1971 graduate of Brown, Scalise was selected three times to the All-Ivy League lacrosse team and twice named All-America and All-New England. He led the nation in scoring (47 goals) as a junior, then co-captained the squad in 1971 when he set an NCAA record by scoring 11 times against Connecticut while helping the Bears advance to the inaugural NCAA men's lacrosse tournament. As a senior, Scalise was also the recipient of the Brown University Sportsmanship Award and the Sports Illustrated Award of Merit, before being inducted into the Brown Hall of Fame in 1991.
Scalise served as head coach of Harvard's men's lacrosse program for 13 seasons. He led the Crimson to the 1980 Ivy League championship, the program's first league title in nearly two decades, and an accompanying NCAA tournament bid. He coached 25 All-America selections and completed his tenure in 1987 with a 98-79 overall record. He also served as the first head coach of Harvard’s women’s soccer winning three Ivy League championships and became the first women’s collegiate soccer coach to amass 100 career victories.
Scalise is the current Chair of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Rules Committee where he has served since 2013. He previously served on the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Division I Tournament Selection Committee. Under Scalise Harvard has played host to several NCAA championship events including three men’s lacrosse championships at Gillette Stadium.
Frenchy Julien Service Award is presented in honor of former Chief Referee, Joseph R.” Frenchy” Julien for outstanding and continuous service to the sport of lacrosse. This individual has rendered a lifetime of service, accomplishments and contributions to the sport. The 2015 recipient of the Frenchy Julien Award is:
Ray Rostan, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach, Hampden-Sydney
Ray Rostan will be entering his 40th season as a collegiate coach and his 32nd as the head coach of the Tigers, where he has had an extraordinary career. Rostan currently stands in the top ten among coaches, active and non-active, in all-time collegiate victories in all NCAA divisions, with an overall mark of 329-191, including a 289-166 record at Hampden-Sydney.
Rostan is just the third lacrosse coach in the Hampden-Sydney history, and since he took the helm in 1985, the Tigers have won four ODAC Championships, made seven NCAA Tournament appearances, and had 158 All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference, 65 All-America, and seven USILA Scholar All-America selections. Additionally, he has been named the ODAC Coach of the Year four times and has twice earned the Francis "Babe" Kraus Memorial Award, after being voted the National Coach of the Year by his peers.
Rostan's storied career as a head coach began at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he coached from 1979-81, and his team broke 14 school records. He then moved to Ithaca from 1982-83, coaching both lacrosse and soccer; in 1982, he guided the Bombers to the NCAA Quarterfinals. He then came to Hampden-Sydney, where he has not only been the head lacrosse coach, but has also served as the head water polo coach and the soccer assistant coach. Rostan's first lacrosse recruiting class won the ODAC in 1989, earning a bid to the NCAA Tournament that year.
In addition to his tenure at Hampden-Sydney, Rostan served as the Defensive Coordinator for the U.S. National Lacrosse team that won the 2002 World Championship in Perth, Australia. Rostan was a member of the 1973 Cortland State National Championship team. He later played professionally in the National Lacrosse League for the 1974 National Lacrosse League Champion Rochester Griffins and for the Long Island Tomahawks in 1975.
Rostan was a member of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Committee representing Division I-II and III of NCAA Collegiate Lacrosse from 1998 through 2003. He also served as the Chair of the USILA Men's North-South game for ten years. Coach Rostan served Hampden-Sydney as the advisor to the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for ten years. He formerly served the USILA Committee for Coaching Ethics. In 2014, the Tigers were awarded the James "Ace" Adams Award for Sportsmanship for District 4 by the National Intercollegiate Lacrosse Officials Association.
The Doyle Smith Sports Information/Media Award is presented in honor of the career of outstanding service provided to lacrosse by longtime Virginia Assistant Sports Information Director Doyle Smith. Smith defined the game of collegiate lacrosse through his media releases and statistical and national poll coverage of the sport. His contributions to the former NCAA Lacrosse Rulebook and Guide paved the way for many of the sport’s great media efforts today on TV, the Internet, and in print. The winner of this award can come from college sports information offices or from the media. The nominee has contributed greatly to the promotion and coverage of the sport. The 2015 recipient of the Doyle Smith Award is:
John A. “Jac” Coyne, Director for External Affairs MCLA
Jac Coyne worked for a decade at Lacrosse Magazine covering mostly the Division II and III beats, and is now the Director of External Affairs for the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). At Lacrosse Magazine, Coyne highlighted many of the achievements of small school student-athletes on and off the field, while also working as an advocate for small college coverage. In addition, he helped in maintaining and editing the magazine’s website, LaxMagazine.com. Through his years with Lacrosse Magazine and US Lacrosse, Coyne has also covered the professional ranks, small college women’s programs and the MCLA. Prior to joining Lacrosse Magazine, he worked at Bowdoin College as sports information director, publicizing the lacrosse programs along with 32 other varsity sports. In his position with the MCLA, Coyne is working to emphasize the accomplishments and opportunities that the organization provides to lacrosse student-athletes.
Coyne received his undergraduate degree from Colby College and earned his Master’s in journalism from the University of Iowa, where he worked as a graduate assistant with the Hawkeye football program.
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USILA NEWS RELEASE December 12, 2015
Each year the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association honors three outstanding coaches in each division. The recipients for 2015 are the following:
Coach of the Year Division I
Bill Tierney, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach, University of Denver
One of collegiate lacrosse's legendary coaches, Bill Tierney captured his NCAA-record seventh National Championship in 2015, becoming the first coach to win National Championships in charge of two different programs while leading the University of Denver to the program's first national title. In his six seasons at Denver, Tierney has amassed an impressive 83-25 overall record (.769) and an even more impressive 33-4 conference mark. The Pioneers have reached Championship Weekend four times in the last five seasons, including the 2015 National Champion Pioneers. In his 31 years of coaching, Tierney has amassed a resume that includes seven NCAA Championships and 14 NCAA Final Four appearances. He has a career collegiate record of 355-118 for an impressive .750 winning percentage.
Coach Tierney has served and chaired several USILA and NCAA committees. He has many honors and awards including the US Lacrosse Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2009. Outside of his collegiate coaching honors, Tierney has coached the United States to the World Championship in 1998, and was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. This year in June, he had the new U.S. Headquarters training field in Sparks, Md., named after him.
Coach of the Year Division II
J.B. Clarke, Head Men's Lacrosse Coach, Limestone College
J.B. Clarke enters his sixth year at the helm of the Limestone men’s lacrosse program. Clarke currently holds an overall record of 234-76 in 18 seasons and has coached in the NCAA Final Four at the Division I, II and III levels. Clarke currently holds the highest career winning percentage in Limestone history with an 87-8 record (.916). He has guided the Saints to five straight Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships and back-to-back NCAA Division II National Championships (2014 and 2015) making him the only coach in Limestone’s program history to win multiple championships. The 2015 Saints set an NCAA Division II single season record with 20 wins, finishing the year with a 20-1 overall record. Limestone started and ended the year at No. 1 in the USILA Coaches’ Poll, and only slipped to No. 2 briefly following the team’s only loss of the season.
Currently, Clarke serves on the Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) Board of Directors, the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee, the USILA Poll Committee and is the USILA Scholar All-America Committee DII Chair.
Coach of the Year Division III
Steve Koudelka, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach/ Assistant Athletic Director, Lynchburg College
Steve Koudelka established the Lynchburg College men's lacrosse program as a national powerhouse in his 19 seasons on the sidelines. During his tenure, Koudelka has recorded an overall record of 234-95, including 17-straight winning seasons. Under his leadership, the Hornets have advanced into the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four seasons. The 2015 campaign was the most successful season in program history. The Hornets finished 21-3, won the ODAC title, and advanced all the way to the NCAA Division III Tournament finals with a 19 game winning streak. Koudelka was named the 2015 All-State Coach of the Year for his efforts.
Koudelka has coached North-South All-Star game and was the past-president of the US Lacrosse Men's Division Coaches' Council Executive Committee and is a member of the Gettysburg College Hall of Fame. He is currently the chairperson of the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championships Committee. Koudelka played professionally for two seasons with the New Jersey Pride for Major League Lacrosse.
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