Matt Madalon
William G. Tierney P01 P02 Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse · Princeton
Named head coach in 2016
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- National championships × 1100
- Final Fours × 250
- Title games × 140
- NCAA tournament wins × 728
- Career wins × 9223
- Win % points above .500 × 18.718.7
- Players drafted × 618
- NCAA tournament appearances × 515
- Conference tournament titles × 315
- Tewaaraton finalists × 212
- Head-coaching seasons × 1111
- Conference regular-season titles × 14
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
- 92-42
- D1 head coach · .687 · at least
- NCAA appearances
- 5
- NCAA wins
- 7
- Final Fours
- 2
- Championships
- 1
- Conference titles
- 1 / 3
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 2
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 6
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
- 92-42
William G. Tierney P01 P02 Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse · 2016–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026National champion · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2025NCAA tournament
- 2024NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
- 2023NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
- 2022Final Four
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
- finalistNate Kabiri · Princeton2026
- finalistCoulter Mackesy · Princeton2025
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
- “two Tewaaraton Award finalists” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mlax/coaches · name and title
- https://goprincetontigers.com/news/2016/6/21/matt-madalon-named-head-mens-lacrosse-coach · year named head coach, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/matt-madalon/10442 · career stops, record, career record, record at his school, 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_III_institutions · division
- 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://goprincetontigers.com/news/2026/5/25/mens-lacrosse-ncaa-champs-princeton-sprints-past-notre-dame-16-9-for-national-title · title games, championships
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Tigers_men%27s_lacrosse · conference titles
- https://www.tewaaraton.com/post/announcing-the-men-s-and-women-s-finalists-for-the-2026-tewaaraton-award-presented-by-stifel · Tewaaraton
- 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.