The F. Morris Touchstone Award is an award given by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association to the nation's most outstanding NCAA Division I lacrosse head coach. The award was first presented in 1958.[1]
The award is named after F. Morris Touchstone who was head coach at the United States Military Academy from 1928 to 1957. While at Army, his teams had a record of 214-73-4. Of Army's 82 first-team All-Americans, 42 played under Touchstone.[2] and won the national championship in 1944, 1945 (co-winner with Navy), and 1951 (co-winner with Princeton). Touchstone was inducted in the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1960.[3]
| Year | Coach | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Albert Twitchell | Rutgers | |
| 1959 | Maryland | ||
| 1960 | Willis Bilderback | Navy | |
| 1961 | Army | ||
| 1962 | Harvard | ||
| 1963 | Denison | ||
| 1964 | New Hampshire | ||
| 1965 | Johns Hopkins | ||
| 1966 | Washington College | ||
| 1967 | Princeton | ||
| 1968 | Johns Hopkins | ||
| 1969 | Pennsylvania | ||
| 1970 | Howard Myers,Jr. | Hofstra | |
| 1971 | Cornell | ||
| 1972 | Johns Hopkins | ||
| 1973 | Maryland | ||
| 1974 | Washington & Lee | ||
| 1975 | Navy | ||
| 1976 | Massachusetts | ||
| 1977 | Cornell | ||
| 1978 | Army | ||
| 1979 | Delaware | ||
| 1980 | Syracuse | ||
| 1981 | North Carolina | ||
| 1982 | Adelphi | ||
| 1983 | Pennsylvania | ||
| 1984 | Pennsylvania | ||
| 1985 | Brown | ||
| 1986 | Navy | ||
| 1987 | Richard M. Moran | Cornell | |
| 1988 | Loyola | ||
| 1989 | Massachusetts | ||
| 1990 | Yale | ||
| 1991 | Brown | ||
| 1992 | Princeton | ||
| 1993 | Hofstra | ||
| 1994 | Brown | ||
| 1995 | Maryland | ||
| 1996 | Bucknell | ||
| 1997 | Hartford | ||
| 1998 | Butler | ||
| 1999 | Delaware | ||
| 2000 | Dave Pietramala | Cornell | |
| 2001 | Tony Seaman[4] | Towson | |
| 2002 | Dave Pietramala[5] | Johns Hopkins | |
| 2003 | Jim Stagnitta[6] | Rutgers | |
| 2004 | Richie Meade[7] | Navy | |
| 2005 | Mike Pressler[8] | Duke | |
| 2006 | Greg Cannella[9] | Massachusetts | |
| 2007 | Scott Marr[10] | Albany | |
| 2008 | John Desko[11] | Syracuse | |
| 2009 | Jeff Tambroni | Cornell | |
| 2010 | John Danowski | Duke | |
| 2011 | Dom Starsia | Virginia | |
| 2012 | Charley Toomey[12] | Loyola | |
| 2013 | John Danowski | Duke | |
| 2014 | Eric Seremet | Air Force | |
| 2015 | Bill Tierney | Denver | |
| 2016 | Joe Breschi | North Carolina | |
| 2017 | Shawn Nadelen | Towson | |
| 2018 | Andy Shay | Yale | |
| 2019 | Mike Murphy | Pennsylvania | |
| 2020 | no award | (Season canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic) | |
| 2021 | Kevin Warne | Georgetown | |
| 2022 | John Tillman | Maryland | |
| 2023 | Kevin Corrigan | Notre Dame |
| Rank | Name | Number of Awards | Winning Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-T | Richard M. Moran | 1971, 1977, 1987 | ||
| 1-T | Robert Scott | 1965, 1968, 1972 | ||
| 1-T | Tony Seaman | 1983, 1984, 2001 | ||
| 1-T | Dom Starsia | 1985, 1991, 2011 | ||
| 1-T | John Danowski | 1993, 2010, 2013 | ||
| 6-T | Dick Edell | 1978, 1995 | ||
| 6-T | Dick Garber | 1976, 1989 | ||
| 6-T | Dave Pietramala | 2000, 2002 | ||
| 6-T | Bob Shillinglaw | 1979, 1999 | ||
| 6-T | Bill Tierney | 1992, 2015 | ||
| 11-T | Multiple winners tied with 1 | |||
| Rank | School | Number of Awards | Winning Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornell | 1971, 1977, 1987, 2000, 2009 | ||
| 2-T | Johns Hopkins | 1965, 1968, 1972, 2002 | ||
| 2-T | Navy | 1960, 1975, 1986, 2004 | ||
| 2-T | Pennsylvania | 1969, 1983, 1984, 2019 | ||
| 2-T | Maryland | 1959, 1973, 1995, 2022 | ||
| 6-T | Brown | 1985, 1991, 1994 | ||
| 6-T | Massachusetts | 1976, 1989, 2006 | ||
| 6-T | Duke | 2005, 2010, 2013 | ||
| 9-T | Army | 1961, 1978 | ||
| 9-T | Delaware | 1979, 1999 | ||
| 9-T | Hofstra | 1970, 1993 | ||
| 9-T | Princeton | 1967, 1992 | ||
| 9-T | Syracuse | 1980, 2008 | ||
| 9-T | Rutgers | 1958, 2003 | ||
| 9-T | Loyola | 1998, 2012 | ||
| 9-T | North Carolina | 1981, 2016 | ||
| 9-T | Towson | 2001, 2017 | ||
| 9-T | Yale | 1990, 2018 | ||
| 19-T | Multiple winners tied with 1 | |||