Head Coach: Mike Faith

Mike Faith enters his fifth season as head women's lacrosse coach at Elizabethtown College in 2009 with a record of 36-30 in his first four years.

After taking over the program in the fall of 2004, he needed little time to transform it into one of the powerhouses of the Middle Atlantic Conference.

In his second season, the Blue Jays made their first-ever appearance in the MAC playoffs in 2006. The 2007 season saw the Blue Jays finish with a perfect 10-0 record in conference play and set a school record with 13 victories. Following the season, Faith was named MAC Coach of the Year while Katie Foley '09 was honored as Player of the Year and Katie Caprinolo '10 earned Rookie of the Year honors.

The 2008 squad set yet another milestone by making the program's first-ever appearance in the MAC championship game en route to an 11-5 record.

A 2000 graduate of Salisbury University, Faith earned a degree in health fitness while earning first-team All-America honors as a member of the men's lacrosse team.

Faith arrived at Elizabethtown after serving as the first assistant coach with the women's lacrosse program at NCAA Division I University of Maryland-Baltimore County, which he helped lead to its first-ever NCAA tournament appearances in the 2002 and 2003 seasons.

Prior to that, Faith was an assistant women's lacrosse coach and the offensive coordinator at the University of Richmond in 2001, and he was also a volunteer assistant women's lacrosse coach at his alma mater of Salisbury University in the fall of 1999 and in early 2000.

Faith got his start in coaching women's lacrosse at James M. Bennett High School in Salisbury, MD in 1999 and 2000. “The team needed an assistant coach,” Faith explained, “and I learned the rules and took it from there. It made me learn to coach the way I want to coach.” The experience, like his stints as an assistant coach elsewhere, proved successful, as he helped guide the team to the Regional Quarterfinals both years and set the school record for best overall season.