MEN'S LACROSSE HEAD COACH Pat Kennedy

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Pat Kennedy returns for his third season as the Lions’ head coach. He was an assistant during the team’s inaugural season in 2007. Kennedy was hired in July 2006.

Coach Kennedy came to the Mount with a wealth of lacrosse coaching and playing experience. A 2001 graduate of Division I Syracuse University, Kennedy was an attackman for the Orangemen. He competed in the lacrosse NCAA championships from 1998-2001 and was a member of the Syracuse national championship team in 2000. He graduated from Syracuse with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

In high school, Kennedy was a 1997 graduate of Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was selected a lacrosse All-American in 1997, First-Team All-Ohio and All-Midwest selection from 1995-1997. He also holds the career scoring mark at Moeller. After college, Kennedy competed in post collegiate club lacrosse action where he was named the Midwest Cities Lacrosse Conference Player of the Year in 2003 playing for a team in Chicago. He was drafted in 2006 and played for the Chicago Machine of the Major League Lacrosse professional team.

Kennedy coached high school lacrosse locally in Cincinnati for two years and one year in Boston. He was the varsity assistant coach for Moeller High School in 2006, helping his team to be the top-rated team in Cincinnati, and directing the team to the state Final Four. Pat was also the head varsity coach for Summit Country Day High School in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2004-2005 where his team finished second in the Ohio High School South 2A Division. Pat was also the assistant coach for Catholic Memorial High School in Boston, Mass., from 2003-2004.

Coach Kennedy, his wife, Kate, and their son P.J., reside in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Mount joined the Midwest Lacrosse Conference in 2010.