Gerry Byrne
The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse/Defensive Coordinator · Harvard
Named head coach in 2019
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Career wins × 4210.5
- Win % points above .500 × 9.29.2
- Head-coaching seasons × 77
- NCAA tournament appearances × 26
- Tewaaraton finalists × 16
- Players drafted × 26
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
- 42-29
- D1 head coach · .592
- NCAA appearances
- 2
- NCAA wins
- 0
- Final Fours
- 0
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 0 / 0
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 1
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 2
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
- 42-29 (thru 2026)
The Frisbie Family Head Coach · 2020–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2025NCAA tournament
- 2022NCAA 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
- finalistSam King · Harvard2025
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
- 2025 · NEILA Coach of the Year
- 2011 · IMLCA National Assistant Coach of the Year (at Notre Dame)
In the school's words
- “Sam King, who made history by becoming the first Tewaaraton Award Finalist in program history” source
- “Ip going 18th overall in the PLL College Draft to the Boston Cannons and Malone signing with the Carolina Chaos, joining 2025 grads Sam King and Ray Dearth as Harvard products now playing in the PLL” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://gocrimson.com/sports/mlax/roster · name and title
- https://gocrimson.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/gerry-byrne/2925 · year named head coach, career stops, 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), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_II_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Crimson_men%27s_lacrosse · record, conference titles
- 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://www.tewaaraton.com/post/tewaaraton-award-presented-by-stifel-announces-2025-men-s-and-women-s-finalists · Tewaaraton
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.