Head coach
Tracy Coyne enters her fifth season at Saint Francis and her 35th campaign in her legendary career in 2024. In 2023, under her tutelage the Red Flash has set a program record for overall wins (10), conference wins (5), longest winning streak (6) and clinched the program's first-ever NEC Tournament appearance.
Coming into the 2024 season, Coyne holds a 314-222 career record. She currently ranks seventh in wins by active Division I head coaches, while she is 11th in NCAA Division I history in wins, 13th
at any level for active head coaches and 19th overall for any level. for wins
Coyne became the program's winningest head coach in program history in a 17-11 win against St. Bonaventure on April 19. She became one of 20 coaches to reach 300 wins with the 10-6 win at Akron on February 27, 2022. She has led 12 teams to the NCAA Tournament between the NCAA DI and DIII levels with six conference championships and several NCAA Final Four appearances. Coyne was inducted into the Roanoke College Hall of Fame in 2023.
The 2021 Red Flash team won the IWLCA Community Service Award.
In her 15 seasons at Notre Dame, Coyne turned a first-year program into a national power, making six NCAA Tournaments and winning a Big East Championship in 2009. She was named the Big East Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2008 and the NCAA Division I IWLCA National Coach of the Year in 2006 after leading the Fighting Irish to its first NCAA Final Four Appearance
Coyne’s coaching career began at Denison University where she led the Big Red to two NCAC Championships in two seasons.
From there she took over as the head coach at Roanoke College, winning ODAC Championships in five of her seven seasons and reaching the Final Four in 1992 when she garnered her first National Coach of the Year award. She was inducted into the Roanoke Athletics Hall of Fame in 2023.
After 14 seasons and 147 wins at Notre Dame, Coyne spent time as an assistant coach at Duquesne and Dartmouth and the head coach of Washington & Jefferson College and most recently at George Washington from 2015-2019.
She was honored with the 2012 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Association (IWLCA) Diane Geppi-Aikens Award for lifetime achievement and is an honorary member of the Notre Dame Monogram Club. She has coached 48 All-Americans, three
ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, and two Tewaaraton finalists, given to the top player in college lacrosse.
Coyne also has experience at the International level where she served as the head coach of the Canadian National Team from 1999-2005, earning fourth-place finishes at the 2001 and 2005 World Cups.
