Quintessential Lacrosse: Charley Toomey (Loyola Lacrosse)

Quint and Charley sit down to discuss: -Loyola Fall Ball -Roster Breakdown for 22-23 -Recruiting and Multi-Sport Athletes -Today's Lacrosse Landscape From Loyola Greyhounds Athletics: "The 2023 season will be the 18th as head coach at Loyola for Charley Toomey, a school where he has put his stamp on the Loyola men’s lacrosse program as a disciplined, tough, athletic and skillful unit. The Greyhounds ascended to the top of college lacrosse in 2012, winning Loyola’s first NCAA Division I Championship. Toomey has directed the Greyhounds to an even 108 wins, an average of 12.2 per season since 2012, and he enters the 2023 campaign with a 168-85 career record in his first 17 years at Loyola. Early in the 2016 season, Toomey became the second coach in program history to reach and cross the 100-win plateau. He stands second on the program’s all-time wins chart behind his college coach, Dave Cottle (181-70, 1983-2001). As a head coach, Toomey has coached 51 USILA All-Americans, 93 all-conference selections, 21 conference positional or players or rookies of the year, a Tewwaraton Award winner and five finalists and 28 USILA Scholar All-Americans. Of the award winners, Pat Spencer became the most decorated player in program history during his 2019 senior season when he set the NCAA career record for assists and finished second all-time in points. He was the school’s first winner of the Tewaaraton and the USILA Player of the Year Awards and became the school’s first four-time All-American. In 2019, Toomey was named to the coaching staff of the U.S. Men’s National Team as an assistant coach. He will serve with Team USA in preparation for, and competition in, the 2023 World Championships in San Diego. He was also enshrined in the USLacrosse Chesapeake Chapter Hall of Fame in January 2019 for his accomplishments as a player and a coach."