Limestone University Men's Lacrosse

Clarke enters his seventh year at the helm of the Limestone mens lacrosse program following 12 years at Washington College and one season at Greensboro College. Named the fifth head coach in Limestone history during the summer of 2010, Clarke has an overall career record of 255-77 in 19 seasons and has coached in the NCAA Final Four at the Division I, II and III levels.   Coach Clarke, the 2014 USILA Division II Coach of the Year, currently holds the highest career winning percentage in Limestone history with a 108-9 record (.923) during his first six seasons with the Blue and Gold. He has guided the Saints to six straight Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships and back-to-back NCAA Division II National Championships (2014 and 2015). He serves on the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee, the USILA Poll Committee, and is the USILA Scholar All-America Committee DII Chair.   This past year, the Saints set multiple program records, including winning percentage (.955) and points per game (30.18), while setting new NCAA Division II benchmarks in wins (21), points (664), goals (424), and assists (240). Limestone also featured one of the top defenses in the country, ranking third nationally with 7.36 goals allowed per game.     The Blue and Gold won 21 straight games during the 2016 campaign and reached the NCAA Division II National Championship Game for a third straight year and a fourth time overall during Clarkes tenure. He recorded his 100 th win at Limestone in a 19-5 win over Pfeiffer on April 9, 2016 only the second coach in program history to surpass the century mark.   The Saints featured eight USILA All-Americans this past year while senior midfielder Mike Messenger was named the 2016 Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award winner as the Most Outstanding Player in Division II the second Limestone player to earn the prestigious award in as many years. Additionally, junior Chris Clancy earned the NCAA Elite 90 Award the third such honor for a Limestone student-athlete under Clarkes mentorship. In 2015, Clarke accomplished something that no other coach in Limestone history had before when the Saints won a second straight NCAA Division II National Championship. Not only were the 2014 and 2015 teams the first to win consecutive titles, Clarke became the only coach in program history to win multiple championships.   The 2015 Saints set an NCAA Division II single season record with 20 wins, finishing the year with a 20-1 overall record after defeating Le Moyne 9-6 in the national title game. Limestone started and ended the year at No. 1 in the USILA Coaches Poll, and only slipped to No. 2 briefly following the teams only loss of the season.   The 2015 team featured a program-record eight USILA All-Americans while faceoff specialist Kevin Reisman was named the Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award winner as the Most Outstanding Player in Division II. He led the country in faceoff wins, faceoff winning percentage, ground balls, and ground balls per game while Mike Messenger led NCAA Division II with 55 goals scored to earn First-Team All-American honors.  In 2014, Clarke accomplished something that only two other men had achieved in the history of Limestone men's lacrosse - win an NCAA Division II National Championship. Returning a squad with no previous All-Americans, and only a pair of Preseason All-Americans, the Saints proved to be a team in the truest sense of the word. The Saints went 19-1 during the 2014 National Championship season, winning 15 straight games to close out the year and culminating with a 12-6 win over LIU Post in the national title game. It was Limestones first championship since the 2002 season and the programs third title overall.   Patrick Sheridan won all 19 of those games in goal for the Saints that season and was named USILA Goalkeeper of the Year while Limestone boasted a total of six USILA All-Americans in 2014. On March 9, 2014, Clarke earned his 200 th career win with a dramatic 8-7 victory over No. 8 Merrimack. In 2013, his team finished 16-2 overall and delivered Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships for the fifth straight year. The Saints also made their 14th straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearance, defeating No. 8 Seton Hill 16-13 in the national quarterfinals. Clarke led Limestone to a 17-2 overall record and 5-0 Conference Carolinas mark in 2012 and advanced to the programs seventh NCAA National Championship Game after defeating an unbeaten Le Moyne program on their home field. Limestone nearly came home with their third title in program history, but fell to Dowling 11-10 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.   During his first season with the Saints in 2011, Clarke guided the squad to a 15-2 overall record and a four-week stretch as the No. 1 ranked team in the country. The 15 wins tied the program mark for most wins in a season, and the team was selected to host a national semifinal game for the first time since 2004. Limestone had three players earn USILA First-Team All-American honors in his first year.   Prior to joining the Saints, Clarke served as the head mens lacrosse coach and Assistant Director of Athletics at Washington College. He guided the Shoreman to a combined 138-63 (.687) overall record in 12 years, becoming the fastest coach to reach 100 wins in program history. He led the program to seven NCAA Division III Tournament appearances and reached the Centennial Conference Championship in eight consecutive seasons. Clarke mentored 28 USILA All-Americans and 78 All-Centennial Conference honorees while in Chestertown. Before his time with the Shoreman, Clarke was the offensive coordinator for Dave Cottle and Division I Loyola College in Baltimore, Md. The Greyhounds reached the NCAA Division I National Semifinals in 1998 and finished the season ranked No. 2 in the nation. Clarke first became a head coach at the college level in 1997 when he served one season at the helm of Greensboro College (N.C.). During that season, he turned around a team that went 3-9 in the previous season and transformed it into a team that would go 9-5 and finish in the Top 20 of the NCAA Division III national rankings. A longtime offensive architect, Clarke applied his skill set as the offensive coordinator at Duke University from 1992-96. During his time in Durham, the Blue Devils won an ACC Championship in 1995 and appeared in the NCAA Division I Tournament in 1994 and 1995. The team recorded the programs first NCAA Tournament win in 1994 with a 14-9 decision over Maryland. He has also served as an assistant at The Ohio State University and at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. While with Roanoke, Clarke helped the Maroons reach the NCAA Division III National Championship Game during the 1992 campaign. Currently, Coach Clarke serves on the Intercollegiate Mens Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) Board of Directors and, over the course of his career, has been a member of the USILA Division III All-America Committee, the USILA National Poll Committee and US National Team Selection Committee.

Storrier rejoined Limestone as an assistant coach in the fall of 2010 following two tremendous seasons in the Blue and Gold in 2008 and 2009. Storrier was named the 2014 USILA Assistant Coach of the Year after helping guide the Saints to its first national championship since 2002. In his six seasons on the sidelines, Limestone has an impressive resume that consists of an 108-9 overall record, a perfect 32-0 mark in Conference Carolinas play, six straight Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships, six consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, four NCAA Division II National Championship Game appearances, and two National Championships.   Storrier helped mentor a record-breaking offensive unit this past season as the Saints set NCAA Division II benchmarks in wins (21), points (664), goals (424), and assists (240). He coached one the nations best offensive players in Mike Messenger, the 2016 Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award winner as the Most Outstanding Player in Division II and the 2016 Lt. J.G. Donald MacLaughlin, Jr. Award as the Most Outstanding Midfielder in Division II.   In 2015, he played an important role in guiding the Saints to a second straight NCAA Division II National Championship. Under his guidance that season, Limestone led the nation in several offensive categories: scoring offense, scoring margin, points, points per game, assists, and assists per game.  As a two-year player with the Saints, Storrier helped lead the team to a 22-6 overall record and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. He led Limestone in goals, assists and points both years, tallying 44 goals and 33 assists for 77 points as a junior in 2008 before posting 34 goals, 18 assists and 52 points during his senior campaign.   Storrier was named a USILA Second-Team All-American in 2008 and was a First-Team All-Conference Carolinas selection during both of his seasons with the Blue and Gold.   He currently ranks 23 st all-time in NCAA Division II history with 4.61 career points per game.   The LaFayette, N.Y. native earned a pair of NJCAA All-American selections and helped lead Onondaga Community College to the 2006 National Championship. Storrier enters his seventh year as an assistant coach with Limestone and currently resides in Gaffney, S.C.