757 Select Lacrosse

Neil Duffy

Coach Duffy been teaching and coaching at Norfolk Academy for 18 years (after five years at nearby Nansemond-Suffolk Academy).

Co-captain of the 1984 U.S. Naval Academy’s lacrosse team
Received Navy's 1984 VADM E.C. Waller Lacrosse Award
Played in the 1984 North-South College All-Star game
Three-time TCIS Coach of the Year in Boys' Lacrosse and once in Girls' Basketball
Two-time VISAA State Assistant Coach of the Year
Recipient of Norfolk Academy's "Excellence in Coaching" Award 2010
Recipient of Norfolk Academy's Middle School Teacher of the Year Award, Charter Day Award, and Waitzer Master Teacher Award
Keynote speaker at 2009 US Lacrosse Youth Council Awards Breakfast
Author, The Spirit in the Stick

In the last twenty-two years, Coach Duffy’s players have earned no less than:

15 Scholastic All-America/Academic All-America Awards
12 Collegiate All-America Awards in Lacrosse (and several in other sports)
8 National Collegiate Championships (with at least three as coaches)
a World Championship
a Junior World Championship
a National Collegiate Coach of the Year award
a National Collegiate Player of the Year award
Several Collegiate All-Conference and Conference Player-of-the-Year awards, and have
Captained no less than Eighteen Collegiate teams
Played in at least Three North-South College All-Star games
Been named Professional Lacrosse (MLL and NLL) All-Stars at least four times, while
35 Players have been Four-Year (or current) Collegiate Letter Winners, and
Many of his players are current collegiate, high school, middle school, and youth league coaches and officials.