CASEY D’ANNOLFO
TUFTS LACROSSE HEAD COACH
In his seventh season now, the Mike Daly Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse Casey D’Annolfo has guided the Jumbos to a .854 winning percentage (82-14) and four NESCAC championships.
Last season, Tufts finished 19-3 and won its 11th New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) title overall. The Jumbos advanced to the NCAA Tournament Final Four. In the 2021 COVID season Tufts also won NESCAC’s and played into the NCAA Final Four before finishing the season with a 9-1 record. The 2021 schedule included a 15-9 win at Division I Dartmouth.
In 2018 and 2019, Tufts won back-to-back NESCAC championships while combining for a 37-4 record under Coach D’Annolfo’s guidance. The team won 18 of 20 NESCAC games during those two seasons and finished first in the competitive conference for 2019. In his first year with the team in 2017, Coach D’Annolfo guided the Jumbos to a school-record 11 straight wins to open the season.
In 2020, D’Annolfo’s Jumbos were looking like a team that would challenge for the national championship when hopes were dashed due to COVID-19. Tufts won its four games by a combined total of 100–42, including a 25–15 win over rival Amherst. Tufts’ 25 goals per game average led Division III for the abbreviated season. The Jumbos were ranked #2 in the final USILA national poll of the year.
A 2006 Tufts graduate, Coach D’Annolfo has led the Jumbos to wins in its 69 of their last 75 games dating back to the start of the 2018 season. All of his teams have earned NCAA berths, with the 2018 and 2019 squads advancing to the national quarterfinals. The NCAA Tournament was not played in 2020.
Tufts players have received a total of 47 All-American honors during Coach D’Annolfo’s six seasons. The eight Jumbos selected as USILA All-Americans for the 2022 season included Mac Bredahl – recruited to the Jumbos by Coach D’Annolfo and his staff – who became the program’s all-time leading scorer. Among other outstanding players recruited to Tufts during D’Annolfo’s era is Max Waldbaum, currently finishing out his eligibility at Division I Jacksonville University where he scored 48 goals and 24 assists for 72 points in 17 games last year.
Lacrosse student-athletes also achieve academically within Coach D’Annolfo’s program. Five achieved USILA Scholar All-American accolades for 2022 and 10 team members were on the NESCAC All-Academic Team with grade point averages of 3.50 or better. Frank Hattler, a 2018 Tufts graduate, earned Google Cloud Academic All-America® recognition.
Among the community service activities Coach D’Annolfo and the team support is Bronx Lacrosse, a full-day, year-round academic and sports-based youth development program founded by Tufts alumnus Dan Leventhal that empowers youth on the field and in the classroom.
D’Annolfo, who replaced Mike Daly as the Jumbos’ head coach, previously had revitalized the men’s lacrosse program at the Taft School during nine seasons as head coach. When he was hired at Taft in 2007, the Rhinos were at the bottom of the Founders League. Playing in one of the most competitive lacrosse conferences in the nation, Taft won the Founders League championship under D’Annolfo’s guidance in 2016. The team was #18 in USA Today‘s rankings for the spring 2016 and also broke the school record for goals in a season that year.
From West Hartford, Connecticut originally, D’Annolfo was a three-sport letterman in football, lacrosse, and basketball at Tufts from 2002-06. He played quarterback for the Jumbos and was a four-year contributor in lacrosse. He is believed to be the only athlete in Jumbo history to throw a touchdown pass in football, score a goal in lacrosse, and make a field goal in basketball during his Tufts career.
D’Annolfo has coached at the prestigious Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Games since 2012. He kept his connection to Tufts over the years by working at the Jumbo Lacrosse Clinic starting in 2010.
STEPHEN TOOMY
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Stephen Toomy is in his fourth season on the Tufts University men’s lacrosse coaching staff. A stand-out player at Western New England University, Toomy brings several years of Division I coaching experience to the Jumbos. Toomy a huge part of the Tufts men’s lacrosse success, and was honored as a finalist for Division III National Assistant Coach of the Year.
The team’s defensive coordinator, Toomy oversaw the play of four Jumbos who received Inside Lacrosse Maverik DIII Media All-American honors for the shortened 2020 season.
From 2017-19, Toomy was an assistant coach at Harvard. Prior to that he worked at Boston University, where he served as the defensive coordinator for two seasons. Toomy led one of the best defenses in the country with the Terriers, as they gave up only 8.88 goals per game for a team ranked No. 15 in the country.
Toomy had been the defensive coordinator and goalie coach at Colgate, helping the Raiders win the 2015 Patriot League Championship and earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. Before Colgate, Toomy was the director of men’s lacrosse operations at the University of North Carolina for two years. He was a part of a Tar Heels coaching staff that won the 2013 ACC championship and made the NCAA tournament both years he was there.
Toomy began his coaching career at his alma mater – Western New England University – where he coached the defense while also serving as the goalie coach and recruiting coordinator.
As a player at Western New England from 2005-09, Toomy was a three-time All-Conference selection and participated in the 2009 NEILA East-West Senior All-Star Game. The Northborough, Massachusetts native earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting in May 2009 and has also served as a coach for Team Central Lacrosse and New England Developmental Lacrosse.
Max Waldbaum
ASSISTANT COACH
Waldbaum joined the Tufts University coaching staff in the summer of 2023 and has been instrumental in our success since his arrival back in Medford.
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