Women's Lacrosse

Mike Waldvogel
	Title: Head Coach Email: mwaldvogel@fairfield.edu Phone: ext. 2020

The 2010 campaign will mark the second season that Mike Waldvogel has been the head coach of the Fairfield University women's lacrosse team, and his third season as a member of the Stags coaching staff.  In that short time he has led the Stags to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, two Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Lacrosse League regular season crowns and 34 victories, a winning percentage of over 87 percent.

In his first season at the helm Waldvogel, a 1996 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, led the Stags to a 17-3 record and a second consecutive MAAC regular season crown.  After earning MAAC Coach of the Year honors from his league peers, Waldvogel led the team to a pair of wins in the MAAC Championship, for the program's first post-season title since 2001.  The Stags then knocked off Sacred Heart in an NCAA Play-in contest to earn the first-ever NCAA Tournament berth.  Fairfield took on #4 Penn in the opening round of the tournament, giving the eventual national semifinalist all they could handle before falling 10-8.

For the first time in program history the Stags finished a season ranked in a national poll, earning the 19th spot in the IWLCA/Under Armour Poll.  The season of firsts was capped when Waldvogel was selected as the IWLCA Division I Northeast Region Coach of the Year, becoming the first Stag mentor to earn that accolade.

Waldvogel has been associated with the sport of lacrosse, as a player or coach, for more than 40 years, including coaching at the Division I level for over three decades.  From 1980-2002 he served as the head men's lacrosse coach at Yale University, where he is the winningest coach in program history at 166-143. He led the Bulldogs to three NCAA Tournaments and three consecutive Ivy League crowns from 1988-90. 

Waldvogel joined the Fairfield women's lacrosse staff as an assistant for the 2007-08 season, helping lead the program to a school-record 17 consecutive victories.  Fairfield captured a MAAC regular season crown that spring and advanced to the MAAC Championship final before falling to Marist.

This is Waldvogel's second stint with the Stags, having spent the 2003-04 campaign as an assistant coach with the men's lacrosse team.
As an undergraduate at Cortland State, Waldvogel was a two-time First Team All-America selection.  He went on to play for the US National Team in 1974 and 1978, before coaching the team in 1990.

He has served the game of lacrosse in the NCAA and on a national level during his career. From 1989-1998 he was the secretary/treasurer of the USLCA, with a membership of over 5,000. He served as the US delegate to the International Lacrosse Federation from 1993-2001. From 1989-94 he was a member of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship Committee and served on the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee.  Last year he was an NCAA observer of officials in the New England Region.

Waldvogel earned a Bachelor's Degree Science Education from Cortland State in 1971 and a Masters Degree in Science Education in 1975.  He currently resides in Madison, Conn.