Charley Toomey | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Loyola (MD) |
Player Years1: | 1987–1990 |
Player Team1: | Loyola |
Player Years2: | 1992 |
Player Team2: | Baltimore Thunder |
Player Years3: | 1993 |
Player Team3: | Boston Blazers |
Player Positions: | Goalkeeper |
Coach Years1: | 1991–1992 |
Coach Team1: | Loyola (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 1993 |
Coach Team2: | NAPS |
Coach Years3: | 1994–1995 |
Coach Team3: | Navy (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 1996–1998 |
Coach Team4: | Severn School |
Coach Years5: | 1999–2005 |
Coach Team5: | Loyola (assistant) |
Coach Years6: | 2006–present |
Coach Team6: | Loyola |
Overall Record: | 170–85 (.667) |
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Awards: | As player:
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Charley Toomey is an American lacrosse coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for the Loyola Greyhounds men's lacrosse team at Loyola University Maryland.
A native of Arnold, Maryland, Toomey initially attended Martin Spalding High School before reclassifying and playing a fifth prep year at the Boys' Latin School of Maryland.[1] [2]
Toomey played college lacrosse for Loyola as a goalkeeper and helped bring them to the school's first NCAA final in 1990.[3] He also played professionally for both the Baltimore Thunder and the original Boston Blazers, although he only played in three games during the two years he played.[4]
Toomey was hired to at his alma mater, Loyola, as head coach on December 21, 2005.[2] As head coach of the Greyhounds, he led the team to win the NCAA Division I lacrosse championship on May 28, 2012, completing the year with an 18 and 1 record. The team's one loss was to Johns Hopkins. Toomey was named the 2012 winner of the F. Morris Touchstone Award as the Division I Coach of the Year.[5]
On April 6, 2024, Toomey earned his 182nd victory, surpassing his former head coach Dave Cottle to become the winningest coach in Loyola lacrosse history.[2]