John Danowski
Head Coach · Duke
Named head coach in 2006
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Final Fours × 13325
- National championships × 3300
- Title games × 6240
- NCAA tournament wins × 41164
- Players drafted × 45135
- Career wins × 468117
- Tewaaraton winners × 4100
- NCAA tournament appearances × 2678
- Conference regular-season titles × 1768
- Conference tournament titles × 630
- Head-coaching seasons × 3030
- Win % points above .500 × 18.618.6
- Tewaaraton finalists × 16
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
- 468-214
- D1 head coach · .686
- NCAA appearances
- 26
- NCAA wins
- 41 or more
- Final Fours
- 13
- Championships
- 3
- Conference titles
- 17 / 6
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 4 / 1
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 45 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. Numbers labeled for his current school don't include his earlier D1 head-coaching jobs.
Career
Postseason by year
- 2026Final Four
- 2025NCAA tournament
- 2024NCAA tournament
- 2023NCAA title game · Conference regular-season title
- 2021Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2019Final Four
- 2018NCAA title game
- 2017NCAA tournament
- 2016NCAA tournament
- 2015NCAA tournament
- 2014National champion · Conference regular-season title
- 2013National champion · Conference regular-season title
- 2012Final Four · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2011Final Four · Conference regular-season title
- 2010National champion
- 2009Final Four · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2008Final Four · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2007NCAA title game · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2006NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2003NCAA tournament
- 2001NCAA tournament
- 2000NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 1999NCAA tournament
- 1998Conference regular-season title
- 1997NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 1996NCAA tournament · Conference regular-season title
- 1995Conference regular-season title
- 1993NCAA tournament
- 1989Conference regular-season title
- 1988Conference regular-season 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
- winnerBrennan O'Neill · Duke2023
- winnerNed Crotty · Duke2010
- winnerMatt Danowski · Duke2007
- winnerDoug Shanahan · Hofstra2001
- finalistBrennan O'Neill · Duke2024
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
- 1993 · NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year (at Hofstra)
- 2010 · USILA National Coach of the Year
- 2007 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2011 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2012 · ACC Coach of the Year
- 2023 · ACC Coach of the Year
In the school's words
- “Matt Danowski in 2007, Ned Crotty in 2010 and Brennan O'Neill in 2023; Duke has had 12 finalists for the award since 2007” source
- “100 All-America selections at Duke; 134 All-Americans over his career” source
- “Brad Smith, was Duke's first selection in the inaugural PLL draft as the No. 9 pick” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://goduke.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://goduke.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/john-danowski/5325 · year named head coach, career stops, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIU_Post_Pioneers · division
- https://goduke.com/honors/duke-athletics-hall-of-fame/john-danowski/157 · career stops, record, career record, record at his school, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://gohofstra.com/sports/2023/2/6/hofstra-mens-lacrosse-year-by-year-results.aspx · record
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Blue_Devils_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://fightingirish.com/irish-win-national-championship-2/ · title games
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · championships
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstra_Pride_men%27s_lacrosse · conference titles
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/the-tewaaraton-award · Tewaaraton
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/post/2024-tewaaraton-finalists · Tewaaraton
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.