Ryan Polley
Head Coach · Boston U
Named head coach in 2012
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Career wins × 10726.8
- Players drafted × 515
- Head-coaching seasons × 1313
- Conference regular-season titles × 28
- Win % points above .500 × 6.66.6
- Conference tournament titles × 15
- NCAA tournament appearances × 13
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
- 107-82
- D1 head coach · .566
- NCAA appearances
- 1
- NCAA wins
- 0
- Final Fours
- 0
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 2 or more / 1
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 5
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
- 107-82 (thru 2026)
Head coach · 2014–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026Conference regular-season title
- 2023Conference 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
- 2017 · Patriot League Coach of the Year
- 2022 · Patriot League Coach of the Year
- New England Division I Coach of the Year (2017, 2019, 2022)
In the school's words
Sources
- https://goterriers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://goterriers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/ryan-polley/8378 · year named head coach, career stops, division, read for career record (not found), 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/Boston_University_Terriers_men%27s_lacrosse · record, conference titles
- https://goterriers.com/news/2012/6/21/Boston_University_Names_Polley_First_Men_s_Lacrosse_Coach.aspx · read for career record (not found), read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found)
- 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
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.