Craig McDonald
Head Coach · Robert Morris
Named head coach in 2021
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Conference tournament titles × 315
- Career wins × 4812
- NCAA tournament appearances × 39
- Win % points above .500 × 8.58.5
- Conference regular-season titles × 28
- Head-coaching seasons × 55
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 48-34
- D1 head coach · .585
- NCAA appearances
- 3
- NCAA wins
- 0
- Final Fours
- 0
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 2 / 3
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 0
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season.
Career
- 48-34 (thru 2026)
Head coach · 2022–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2025NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2022NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
None credited to him as head coach.
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
Honors
- 2026 · NEC Coach of the Year
In the school's words
- “Anderson and Tapper each garnered USILA All-America Honorable Mention recognition (2026)” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://rmucolonials.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://rmucolonials.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/craig-mcdonald/1661 · year named head coach, career stops, record, career record, record at his school, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_Colonials_men%27s_lacrosse · conference titles
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.