Dave Cottle

Dave Cottle is a retired American lacrosse coach from Baltimore, Maryland, whose career spans three decades of Division I men's lacrosse. As a player he attended Salisbury State University from 1975 to 1978, where he set numerous school and NCAA records, led the nation in scoring as a freshman in 1975 and became the second player in history to pass 100 points in a season; he was named an All-American in three seasons. He began coaching as a graduate assistant at Salisbury and then spent three years as head coach at the Severn School before taking over at Loyola College in 1983. At Loyola he reached the NCAA tournament fourteen times from 1988 onward, saw his teams finish in the national top ten each of those years, guided the 1989 Greyhounds to the only undefeated regular season in school history and reached the 1990 national final, which Syracuse won. He was hired by the University of Maryland in September 2001 and led the Terrapins from 2002 to 2010, reaching the NCAA tournament in eight of nine seasons, winning Atlantic Coast Conference titles in 2004 and 2005 and making Final Four appearances in 2006 and 2007 before resigning in 2010. He later served as a consultant to the Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse and to Marquette University when it added varsity lacrosse.