Bill Tierney

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Johns Hopkins University 1985-1987 (Asst)
Rochester Institute of Technology 1982-1984
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William "Bill" Tierney is a hall of fame lacrosse coach at Princeton University.

Tierney played collegiate lacrosse at Cortland State, where in 1973, he played on the USILA national championship team. Following college, Tierney pursued a master's degree at Adelphi University, and coached high school lacrosse at Great Neck South High School, then Levittown Memorial High School.

In 1982, Tierney's took his first collegiate coaching position with the Rochester Institute of Technology. He took the team to its first NCAA tournaments in both 1983 and 1984. Following this success, Tierney joined the Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays as an assistant lacrosse coach (winning two national championships), and also served as head coach of the soccer team from 1985 to 1987.

In 1988, Tierney accepted the position as head coach of the Princeton Tigers. He acquired a program that was underdeveloped, and quickly turned it around. Tierney's Tigers won six NCAA championships (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2001) in nine years, and have appeared in eight NCAA championship games, nine NCAA Final Fours and 11 Ivy League championships.cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~lacrosse/players/tierney.html |title=Bill Tierney's Princeton Tiger Bio |accessdate=2008-03-13 |format= |workPrinceton.edu ] In 1992, Tierney was awarded USILA Coach of the Year honors. [cite web |url=http://www.uslacrosse.org/museum/awards_list.phtml#mensdiv1 |title=US LAcrosse Division I Awards |accessdate=2008-05-12 |author= |date= |work=USLacrosse.org |publisher=]

Internationally, Tierney coached Team USA in the 1998 World Lacrosse Championships

In 2002, Tierney was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame with the distinction of being "a truly great coach."cite web |url=http://www.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=248 |title=Bill Tierney's National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Bio |accessdate=2008-03-13 |format= |work=USLacrosse.org ]

In 1998 and 2001, Tierney and his son Trevor (a goaltender), became the only father-son pair to win a the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship together.

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