GENEVA, N.Y. – Gettysburg College men's lacrosse head coach
Hank Janczyk has been selected to the Hobart College Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the 2010 class, it was recently announced.
A two-sport standout at Hobart and one of the most successful men's lacrosse coaches in NCAA history, Janczyk, a 1976 graduate, will be inducted in an on-campus ceremony Nov. 13. The eight-member class will also include Mike Charpinsky '63, Mike Cragg, Eddie Froelich '55, Jon Kraus '55, Larry Slattery '64, Harvey Wiltsey '58, and the late Don Bruno '55.
Janczyk made his mark in both football and lacrosse at Hobart. On the gridiron, he was a four-year starter on the defensive line, winning the Harter Family Award for Football and the Tryon Football Award. A team captain as a senior, the Rochester, N.Y. native was named to the ECAC All-League team and captured honorable mention All-America status. He helped lead the Statesmen to a 27-8-1 record during his four seasons.
In lacrosse, Janczyk picked up the game for the first time as a freshman at Hobart. He went on to capture the team's most improved player award as a defenseman and competed in three NCAA Division II title games. He served as a co-captain for the school's first NCAA championship-winning team in 1976 and won the Roger Frankel Award as the senior who contributed most to the community of Hobart College during his collegiate career.
Following graduation, Janczyk made coaching stops at numerous schools, including Albany State, Hobart, and St. Lawrence, as both a football and lacrosse assistant. At Hobart, he helped guide the Statesmen to back-to-back NCAA Division III lacrosse national titles in 1979 and 1980.
Janczyk was named Gettysburg's men's lacrosse head coach in 1988 and has since transformed the program into a perennial powerhouse in Division III. In 23 years at the helm, he has guided the Bullets to a record of 300-77. His teams have won 17 Centennial or Middle Atlantic Conference titles and have reached the NCAA Division III tournament 20 times, including eight trips to the semifinals and three appearances in the championship game.
Before arriving at Gettysburg, Janczyk spent two years as the head lacrosse coach at Colgate University. He was also the head coach at Salisbury University for three seasons and has piled up an overall career record of 340-101 to rank second all-time in NCAA men's lacrosse coaching victories (all divisions). He is one of just three NCAA men's lacrosse coaches to win 300 games at one school and was only the fifth men's lacrosse coach to reach 300 overall career victories.
Janczyk has twice won the Babe Kraus Award as the Division III Coach of the Year – first at Salisbury in 1984 and also at Gettysburg in 2001. He also won the Howdy Myers Man of the Year Award, as selected by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, in 2008.
