Hank Janczyk
Head Coach
Email:
hjanczyk@gettysburg.edu
Phone: (717) 337-6405
One of the most successful lacrosse coaches in NCAA history, Hank Janczyk will take to the sidelines for his 24th season at the helm of the Gettysburg College men’s lacrosse team in 2011.
With a career record of 345-101 (300-77 at Gettysburg), Janczyk ranks second in NCAA history in men's lacrosse coaching victories (all divisions). He became just the fifth NCAA men's lacrosse coach to reach 300 wins when Gettysburg defeated Denison University 9-5 on March 8, 2008.
Janczyk also won his 300th game as a Gettysburg coach when the Bullets topped McDaniel College 10-6 in the 2010 Centennial Conference semifinals. He is one of just three NCAA men's lacrosse coaches to pick up 300 victories at one school.
In 2010, Janczyk directed the Bullets to a 15-3 record, their ninth straight appearance in the Centennial Conference championship game, and their seventh consecutive NCAA tournament berth. Early in the season, Gettysburg spent three weeks ranked No. 1 in United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Division III poll before finishing at No. 4.
During his tenure, the 1976 graduate of Hobart College has guided the Bullets to 17 conference titles. Under Janczyk, Gettysburg has made 20 appearances in the NCAA Division III playoffs – a feat that has been accomplished by just three other Division III schools. Seventy Bullets have earned All-America recognition under Janczyk's tutelage, and six players have captured a total of seven Division III positional player of the year awards. In addition, he coached the program's first-ever Division III overall national player of the year when long stick midfielder Tommy Kehoe '09 won the Iroquois National Award.
Eight of Janczyk’s teams have reached the national semifinals, with his 2001, 2002, and 2009 squads making it to the championship game. Every one of his Bullet squads has finished with a winning record.
Janczyk’s 2001 Bullets set school records for consecutive victories (14) and wins in a season (16) en route to the program’s first-ever national title game appearance. As a result, he earned the 2001 Babe Kraus Award as the Division III Coach of the Year, an honor he first won in 1984 at Salisbury. On April 7, 2001, he earned his 200th career coaching victory with a 14-10 win over Western Maryland.
The following year, the Bullets again broke the program record for victories in a season (17) and ascended to No. 1 in the national rankings for the third time in four years. Janczyk’s 2006 team tied the single-season school record for wins, finishing 17-2.
In 2008 Janczyk won the USILA Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award, presented to an individual who has contributed to the game of lacrosse in a capacity over and above the normal efforts and has shown unselfish and untiring devotion to the game.
At Hobart, Janczyk earned three varsity letters as a defenseman on the lacrosse team. He played on a pair of NCAA Division III runners-up and captained Hobart's 1976 national championship squad. He will be inducted into the Hobart Hall of Fame as part of the 2010 class.
Following several assistant coaching positions, Janczyk was named the head coach at Salisbury, where his teams posted a three-year record of 33-12. Later he coached two years at Colgate University before arriving at Gettysburg.
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