Dave Cottle
| Sport(s) | Lacrosse |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Consultant |
| Team | Chesapeake Bayhawks |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Playing career | |
| 1975–1978 | Salisbury |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1979 | Salisbury (GA) |
| 1980–1982 | Severn School |
| 1983–2001 | Loyola |
| 2002–2010 | Maryland |
| 2011–present | Chesapeake Bayhawks (cons.) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 279–115 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2005 ACC championship 2004 ACC championship |
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| Awards | |
| 2008 ACC Coach of the Year 1988 USILA Coach of the Year 3 × All-American (as player) |
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Dave Cottle is an American lacrosse coach. He is currently a consultant for the Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse and also a consultant for Marquette University, which announced it was adding men's and women's varsity lacrosse on December 16, 2010. He was previously the head coach for the Maryland Terrapins men's lacrosse team at the University of Maryland from 2002 to 2010. Cottle also coached the Loyola College men's lacrosse team from 1983 to 2001.
Cottle attended Northern High School in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. He later enrolled at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland, where he played lacrosse from 1975 to 1978. During his playing career, he set numerous school and NCAA records. In his freshman season, 1975, Cottle led the nation in scoring, and became the second player in history to surpass 100 points in a season. He was named an All-American three years.
Cottle began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Salisbury and then spent three years as the head coach at the Severn School, where he compiled a 26–9 record. In 1983, he took over as head coach at Loyola. In 1988, he led the Greyhounds to the NCAA tournament, and repeated the feat each subsequent season of his career at Loyola for a total of 14 appearances. Each of those years, the Greyhounds finished the season ranked in the top ten. In 1989, Cottle guided his team to become the only one in school history to finish the regular season undefeated. In 1990, Loyola advanced through the NCAA tournament to the final, before losing to Syracuse. The Greyhounds finished the 1994 season with an 11–2 record, one of their best in history, and recorded their first ever win over cross-town rival Johns Hopkins, 17–15. In 1999, Loyola under Cottle became the first team with a top seeding to not advance to the NCAA semifinals (Final Four).
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