Ryan Danehy enters his first season as an assistant coach for the University of Pennsylvania men’s lacrosse team in 2017-18 and his second overall with the squad after serving as the video coordinator just a year prior. Danehy brings a wealth of coaching experience at the collegiate, professional, and international level to the Red and Blue and is a well-seasoned veteran of Ivy League lacrosse.
Danehy brings 14 years of experience as a coach at every level: he spent eight years as a coach at Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan and currently serves as offensive coordinator for the Major League Lacrosse’s New York Lizards. Additionally, in June 2017 Danehy was named the President and Chairman of the Turkey Lacrosse Association and will take over the head coaching reins for the 2018 FIL World Field Lacrosse Championships set to take place in Netanya, Israel.
In 2015, Danehy developed curriculum as the National Director of Training for 3d Lacrosse in both the boys and girls game. Because of his extensive experience from all points of the lacrosse spectrum, Danehy is widely considered a leading expert on the lacrosse collegiate recruiting process.
During his first stint as a college coach, Danehy served as the offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan where the team recorded the most wins and goals scored in program history (only recently broken in 2017). Prior to that, he worked for six years as an assistant coach and offensive and recruiting coordinator at Dartmouth, his alma mater. Danehy’s playing and coaching experience also extends to the indoor game where he was a member of the Vermont Voyaguers and was an assistant coach for the U-19 Team USA indoor team in 2015.
As a player, Danehy was the 49th overall selection in the Major League Lacrosse draft in 2006 and played for the MLL’s Boston Cannons and Chicago Machine for five years.
A native of Billerica, Mass., Danehy graduated from Dartmouth in 2006 following a standout career with the Big Green. He was a four-year starter where he compiled 73 goals and 11 assists and tallied three goals and one assist in Dartmouth’s first-ever tournament appearance against Syracuse in 2003. He also started as the long-snapper for the football program as a dual-sport athlete.
