Brianne Tierney enters her fourth season as head coach of the LVC women's lacrosse team in 2012-13, after earning Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2012 as the Dutchmen made their second postseason appearance in three years of existence.
Tierney was named head coach on June 15, 2009, and quickly assembled a team that surprised opponents in the Middle Atlantic Conference, going 6-9 and finishing eighth in the 13-team MAC. The Dutchmen won their first game, and went on to win four of their first five. Year two was even better as LVC put together an 8-7 regular-season record to finish fourth in the MAC and make the six-team playoff field for the first time ever behind a high-scoring offense.
The third season showed that LVC could play with anyone as the Dutchmen qualified for the Commonwealth Conference and ECAC tournaments with a 9-8 record behind CC player of the year and national points leader Hana Krechel.
In three seasons, Tierney is 23-24 with Lebanon Valley.
Tierney brought a wealth of NCAA Division I experience with her to Annville after tenures as an assistant coach at both Cal and Monmouth. Tierney is a 2007 graduate of Colgate University.
Tierney began her coaching career in 2007-08 at Monmouth University, where she worked with the goalkeepers and offense to help lead the Hawks to a 13-5 record and a berth in the NEC playoffs. In 2008-09, Tierney worked with the University of California’s offense as the Golden Bears went 8-11 and made a run to the MPSF championship game.
During her playing days at Colgate, Tierney was an attacker on two of the Red Raiders' Patriot League championship teams, in 2004 and 2005. Tierney has also served as a lacrosse camp counselor at Princeton and was a middle school field hockey coach in the fall of 2006.
Lacrosse runs deep through the Tierney family; Brianne’s father, Bill, is one of the legendary names in collegiate men’s lacrosse, having served 22 seasons as the men’s head coach at Princeton and winning six NCAA championships before moving to become the head coach at the University of Denver. where he led the Pioneers to the 2011 Final Four. Two brothers, Brendan and Trevor, were lacrosse standouts for Princeton, and Trevor is now an assistant coach at Denver and is a former coach for the Denver Outlaws of Major League Lacrosse. Tierney’s sister, Courtney, played basketball at Franklin & Marshall and is the head girls’ basketball coach at the Pingry School in New Jersey.
