Gary Gait
Roy D. Simmons Jr. Head Men's Lacrosse Coach · Syracuse
Named head coach in 2021
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Final Fours × 250
- Players drafted × 1133
- NCAA tournament wins × 520
- Career wins × 5012.5
- NCAA tournament appearances × 39
- Win % points above .500 × 8.88.8
- Tewaaraton finalists × 16
- Conference tournament titles × 15
- 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
- 50-35
- D1 head coach · .588
- NCAA appearances
- 3
- NCAA wins
- 5
- Final Fours
- 2
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 0 / 1
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 1
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 11 or more
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
- 50-35 (thru 2026)
Head coach · Roy D. Simmons Jr. Head Men's Lacrosse Coach · 2022–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026Final Four
- 2025Final Four · Conference tournament title
- 2024NCAA tournament
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
- finalistJoey Spallina · Syracuse2026
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.
In the school's words
- “32 All-America selections since Gait took over the program” source
- “13 players drafted into the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) under Gait's guidance, with nine players selected in the last two collegiate drafts” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://cuse.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://cuse.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/gary-gait/6104 · year named head coach, career stops, division, read for career record (not found), read for record at his school (not found), read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse_Orange_men%27s_lacrosse · record
- 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://theacc.com/news/2026/4/30/2026-allstate-acc-mens-lacrosse-championship-starts-friday-in-charlotte.aspx · conference titles
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/post/announcing-the-men-s-and-women-s-finalists-for-the-2026-tewaaraton-award-presented-by-stifel · Tewaaraton
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.