Coach Andy Shay – Yale, is an awesome coach, and a great friend of our site and one of our most popular coaches, back for his third podcast. Andy Shay, who completed his 11th season of his first collegiate head coaching job in 2014, has engineered a 52-23 mark over the last five seasons and had four consecutive 10-plus win seasons. He also directed the Bulldogs to five straight Ivy League Tournament appearances, two-consecutive Ivy Tournament Titles, a 2010 regular-season Ivy League Championship and two-straight (school record) NCAA appearances, including Yale’s first in 20 years.

His 2013 team was his most successful with a 12-5 mark, an Ivy League Tournament title, a win in the first round of the NCAAs at Penn State and a final No. 7 national ranking. Only a late comeback by top-ranked Syracuse in the final minutes of their NCAA Quarterfinal contest at College Park, Md., prevented the Elis from making the national championship weekend for the first time since 1990.

The Bulldogs’ 2010 season marked the first post-season appearance since 1992 and the first Ivy championship since 1990. Shay’s squad was ranked as high as No. 9 at one point during that campaign.

Shay, whose defenses have been ranked in the nation’s top 10 the last four seasons including 2013, coached his 10th consecutive top 10 ranked face-off unit that spring.

Shay (97-68 overall), named Yale head coach on June 25, 2003, helped guide the University of Massachusetts to the 2002 and 2003 NCAA quarterfinals as an assistant coach for four years under Greg Cannella. During his tenure, the Minutemen won two ECAC championships and three New England titles. UMass posted an impressive 37-9 overall record in his last three seasons.

Shay served as the recruiting and defensive coordinator for the Minutemen. In 2002 and 2003 his defensive unit allowed under 10 goals a game and ranked third in nation in scoring margin. The 2001 squad led Division I in man-down defense, allowing opponents only 11 goals in 80 chances (.138).

Prior to joining UMass’ staff, Shay was an assistant coach at Delaware, where in 1999 he helped the Blue Hens capture the America East title with a 14-3 record and advance to the NCAA Tournament for only the second time in school history.

In June of 1999, Shay was selected to join Delaware head coach Bob Shillinglaw on the coaching staff of Team USA for the inaugural World Cup of Lacrosse. Team USA defeated Team Canada in a best-of-three series at John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Shay began his coaching career as the head coach at Morrisville (N.Y.) Junior College, and he compiled a 20-17 record in three years. His 1995 team established a school record with a 10-4 mark, qualified for the regional playoffs and was ranked No. 5 in the final national poll.

Shay is a 1994 graduate of LeMoyne College where he was a four-year starting defenseman and served as team captain for two years. He was an All-Empire League selection as a senior when he led the team to a league title. He and his wife, Sheila, their sons, Logan and Griffin, and daughter, Everly, live in Guilford.

At Yale they offer some great camps, with some new ideas on the way, including a special camp for those who might be interested in Yale, all can be found by clicking here, or www.bulldoglaxcamp.com, they have camps for every player,

This is a great podcast, as you might expect. Coach always suggests he only has three drill, but I can assure you that is not the case. In this interview Coach offers a ton of drills and variations. We get 3V2’s and concepts on 4V4’s, we get great defensive sliding drills, great clearing drills, as well as his unique twists on 6V6 and scrimmaging 10V10.

In the Preview below, (Free for all members, and well worth the ten minutes to listen,) and in the article section we feature some ‘Magic’ twists on the LeMoyne 3V2 four side drills, this is really good stuff the players will love!!

Click here to read the corresponding article on adding ‘Magic’ to 3V2…

Audio Preview, This is for all Free Members simply log in… We hear Coach Shay talk about these new twists to add a little magic to an already great lacrosse drill. For all Free Members

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