Career Highlights
• All-time winningest coach in LVC history (110 wins)
• 235 career victories as a Head Coach
• 56 All-Americans, including Ryan Lanigan with LVC
• 79 All-Conference selections, including 44 with LVC
• Seven Academic All-District players, including four with LVC
• Eight NCAA Tournament appearances
• Five Final Four appearances, including three title games
• 1998 NCAA Division III National Championship (WC)
• 1998 NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year (WC)
• Two Centennial Conference Championships (WC)
• Three National Goalkeepers of the Year
• Two National Defensemen of the Year
• One Tewaarton Trophy Finalist
• Seven MAC Commonwealth Tournament appearances (LVC)
• Four ECAC Mid-Atlantic Tournament appearances (LVC)
• Three IMCLA All-Region selections with LVC
• Two Rookies of the Year with LVC
• Two USILA Scholar All-Americans with LVC
• One MAC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year with LVC |
John Haus, former Head Coach of the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University who also led Washington College to the 1998 NCAA Division III Championship, has been the Head Coach at Lebanon Valley since leading the College's re-introduction of Men's Lacrosse in the spring of 2010.
Haus, a 1983 graduate of North Carolina, holds a 235-207 career record in 29 years as a Head Coach at Washington, Johns Hopkins, UNC, and LVC. He has led these teams to eight NCAA Tournaments—including five NCAA semifinal or final appearances—and coached 56 All-Americans.
The Dutchmen made six MAC Commonwealth Championship Tournament appearances from 2015-2018, while also reaching the conference tournament in 2021.
Prior to coming to Annville, Haus spent eight seasons at his alma mater, turning around a struggling Tar Heel program by going 58-52 with three NCAA Tournament appearances, including back-to-back bids in 2007 and 2008, including the program's first top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament since 1996. Playing in the ultra-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Haus mentored 19 All-Americans, including 2004 Tewaaraton Trophy finalist Jed Prossner.
Before returning to Chapel Hill, Haus was the Head Coach of lacrosse's most storied program, Johns Hopkins, where he led the Blue Jays to a 20-7 record and two NCAA semifinal appearances in his two seasons there.
No stranger to Division III, Haus led Washington College to unprecedented success in the late 1990s. After taking over the program and going 6-8 in his first season, Haus installed his first recruiting class and led the Shoremen to a 13-5 record and the NCAA Championship game a year later in 1996, earning Division III National Coach of the Year honors in the process. His team returned to the final in 1997 with seven All-Americans and the National Goalkeeper of the Year; the third time was the charm in 1998 as the team won the NCAA Championship.
Before his stint at Washington, Haus was Assistant Coach and Defensive Coordinator at Hopkins, helping the team to seven straight NCAA appearances, including the 1989 national final and two other semifinal appearances. He twice coached the national defensemen and goalies of the year.
Haus found just as much success as a player, leading North Carolina to two NCAA Championships as an All-American defenseman. The Tar Heels made it at least as far as the NCAA semifinals during each of his four years, and went an undefeated 26-0 during his sophomore and junior seasons. He earned All-America and All-ACC honors as a junior and senior.
Haus resides with his wife, Lisa, and they have four boys, John, Will, Luke, and Grant. His son John, a standout lacrosse player for the University of Maryland, played for the Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL), and is an Assistant Lacrosse Coach at Penn State University. Will, a standout player for Duke University, currently plays for the Denver Outlaws Lacrosse Club of the PLL.
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Overall |
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MACC/MACF |
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| Year |
Won |
Loss |
Pct. |
Won |
Loss |
Pct. |
Accolades |
| 2010 |
2 |
13 |
.133 |
0 |
11 |
.000 |
|
| 2011 |
6 |
10 |
.375 |
4 |
7 |
.367 |
|
| 2012 |
9 |
6 |
.600 |
3 |
3 |
.500 |
MACC Semifinal Game |
| 2013 |
12 |
7 |
.632 |
5 |
3 |
.625 |
MACC Semfinal Game / ECAC Mid-Atlantic Semifinal Game |
| 2014 |
7 |
8 |
.467 |
3 |
5 |
.375 |
ECAC Mid-Atlantic Quarterfinal Game |
| 2015 |
8 |
9 |
.471 |
4 |
4 |
.500 |
MACC Play-In-Game / ECAC Mid-Atlantic Quarterfinal Game |
| 2016 |
11 |
8 |
.579 |
5 |
3 |
.625 |
MACC Play-In-Game / ECAC Mid-Atlantic Semifinal Game |
| 2017 |
9 |
8 |
.529 |
3 |
5 |
.375 |
MACC Play-In-Game |
| 2018 |
9 |
8 |
.529 |
4 |
4 |
.500 |
MACC Play-In-Game |
| 2019 |
7 |
10 |
.412 |
3 |
5 |
.375 |
|
| 2020 |
2 |
4 |
.333 |
0 |
0 |
.000 |
N/A |
| 2021 |
5 |
8 |
.385 |
2 |
5 |
.286 |
MACC Quarterfinals |
| 2022 |
8 |
9 |
.471 |
3 |
5 |
.375 |
|
| 2023 |
8 |
9 |
.471 |
2 |
6 |
.250 |
|
| 2024 |
7 |
10 |
.412 |
3 |
4 |
.429 |
|
| 15 Seasons |
110 |
127 |
.464 |
44 |
70 |
.386 |
* - 2020 season cut short due to COVID-19 outbreak.
