Coach Spencer has a long career at all levels of lacrosse coaching at the collegiate level for the past 18 years including stints at Yale and Brown Universities.

Ted Spencer was the Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach at Fairfield University for the past thirteen years before retiring in July of 2008.

During his coaching tenure at Fairfield he boasts seven Championships, three MAAC Championships (1996, 1997, 1998), two ECAC Post-Season Tournament Championships (1998, 1999), and two GWLL Crowns (2002, 2005).  In 2002 and 2005 Spencer’s teams made appearances in the NCAA Tournament and finished with a Top 15 ranking in Division I Lacrosse.

Three times Spencer was honored as “Coach of the Year” by his league, MAAC (1996), and GWLL (2002, 2005).

In 2001, a panel of Division I head coaches selected Spencer to coach the prestigious USILA North/South All-Star game which showcases the country’s top Division I seniors. Major League Lacrosse also honored him for being among a select few to have made significant contributions to the development of lacrosse in Connecticut.

Prior to his time at Fairfield, Spencer held assistant coaching positions at Brown and Yale. He played for UMass-Amherst, where he stood out as a long-pole defensive midfielder before graduating in 1985.

With all his accolades Spencer’s greatest achievement is that he is a Cancer Survivor and a proud father of three beautiful children Ryan-Elizabeth (13), Ben (11), and Devin (10) and husband to his lovely wife and partner Denise.

Coach Pressler, who enters his third year at Bryant, was an assistant coach for the 2002 U.S. team that won the International Lacrosse Federation (one of two organizations that merged to form the FIL) World Championship in Perth, Australia.

Pressler has had a very successful career as a collegiate lacrosse coach, compiling a 229-102 record in 22 seasons. Bryant has gone 25-8 under Pressler over the last two seasons, reaching the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history this past spring.

Prior to coming to Smithfield, R.I., Pressler won more than 150 games at Duke University, leading the Blue Devils to 10 NCAA tournament berths and a trip to the NCAA championship game in 2005. He also had successful stints as a head coach at Ohio Wesleyan and VMI.

"This is a tremendous day for Bryant University and the men's lacrosse program," said Bryant athletic director Bill Smith. "Mike is an outstanding coach who commands great respect throughout the lacrosse community. He has enjoyed extreme success everywhere he has been and will undoubtedly continue to do so in this new endeavor. The Bulldog community supports Mike in this well-deserved honor."

"US Lacrosse and our Men's National Teams Committee are very enthusiastic about the appointment of Mike Pressler as the 2010 U.S. men's team's head coach," said Jody Martin, Men's Division director for US Lacrosse. "We feel very confident that Mike is the right guy to lead our quest to win the gold medal in Manchester."

"The committee did an excellent job and we were very impressed with the pool of candidates that stepped up this time," said David Urick, chair of the coaches selection committee.

"We were certainly very impressed with Mike's professionalism and more importantly, his excitement and enthusiasm for the position. He can't wait to get started and has already put a lot of thought into it already."