Pat Myers was hired in June 2014 and has spent the last three seasons on the coaching staff for the University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse program. After spending the 2015 season as the program's offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, he was promoted to Associate Head Coach ahead of the 2016 season.
2017 marked a season which included another trip back to the Ivy League Tournament, where the Quakers faced No. 1 seed and host Yale in the semifinals. The contest marked the second-longest game in Penn history, a dramatic quadruple overtime affair that saw the Red and Blue fall to the Bulldogs, 13-12. Penn posted two wins over Virginia during the course of the season which ended with a 7-6 overall record and 3-3 mark in Ivy games (tied for 4th in the conferece), and saw their ranking climb as high as No. 8 in the USILA poll. Six players earned All-Ivy status for their performances, including Simon Mathias (Second Team), Tyler Dunn (Honorable Mention), and Kevin McGeary (Honorable Mention) under Myers’ tutelage.
In 2016, a youthful Quakers squad went 8-7 overall and put together the program's third 4-2 Ivy campaign in six years (after doing it just once from 1990-2010). A pair of Penn players, attackman Simon Mathias and goalie Reed Junkin, shared Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, while five players were named All-Ivy led by sophomore Connor Keating who was a first-team All-Ivy pick at long-stick middie after leading the nation in long-pole scoring.
Penn went 6-7 overall in 2015, Coach Myers' first season, and finished with a 3-3 Ivy League mark including a win over NCAA Championship participant Brown. Three Penn players earned All-Ivy honors.
Under Myers' guidance, Nick Doktor graduated as one of the top players in Penn history, ending his career fourth on Penn's all-time assists list (93) and seventh on the all-time points list (163). Doktor also was drafted by the Charlotte Hounds of Major League Lacrosse.
In addition to his stint at Penn, Myers was an assistant coach with the United States Under-19 team for the 2016 FIL U-19 World Cup in Canada.
Myers came to Penn from the University of North Carolina, where he enjoyed a stellar stint as the Tar Heels’ Associate Head Coach from 2009-14. UNC made NCAA Championship appearances every year Myers was on staff, including quarterfinal appearances in 2010 and 2013, and put together a 69-30 record during that time. The Heels won the powerful Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 2013, the program’s first conference title in 17 years, and held the No. 1 ranking in three different polls at the end of the regular season for the program’s first No. 1 ranking since 1993.
As North Carolina’s offensive coordinator, Myers coached two ACC Players of the Year (Billy Bitter in 2010, Marcus Holman in 2013) and two ACC Rookies of the Year (Holman in 2010, Nick Galasso in 2011). This past season, for the third time in four seasons, four of Myers’ offensive players earn All-America honors (Jimmy Bitter, Ryan Creighton, Joey Sankey, Chad Tutton). UNC has finished fourth nationally in scoring each of the last two years, averaging 13.0 goals per game in 2014 and 13.5 gpg in 2013.
As UNC’s recruiting coordinator, Myers oversaw the signing of two classes that were ranked No. 1 by Inside Lacrosse (2010 and 2012), and a third class that was ranked No. 2 by IL (2011). His 2010 and 2012 recruiting classes included eight Under Armour All-Americans each.
Prior to his time at UNC, Myers was the top assistant at Bucknell University from 2006-08. The Bison went 10-5 and achieved a No. 9 ranking during the 2008 season, which was the best in program history at the time, while in 2007 they went 11-4 overall and ranked as high as 11th nationally. In Myers’ first year at Bucknell, the Bison knocked off No. 1 Maryland to become the first Bucknell team in any sport to defeat a top-ranked team in its sport.
Myers was an assistant coach at Cornell in 2005, as the Big Red went 11-3 overall, won the Ivy League title, and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinal round. Cornell held a No. 3 ranking during the season, the program’s highest national ranking since 1987. Myers was a volunteer assistant coach at his alma mater, Ohio State, in 2004 as the Buckeyes went 12-4 overall, won the Great Western Lacrosse League (GWLL), held a No. 6 national ranking, and advanced to the NCAA Championship first round.
Myers played his college lacrosse at the Ohio State University, graduating in 2003. He was the GWLL Rookie of the Year in 2000, a two-time All-GWLL selection, and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten recipient. Myers then played professionally for four seasons with the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse.
