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Create New Account. Volunteer Assistant Coach. William G. Tierney (born September 26, 1952) is an American lacrosse coach who currently heads the men's lacrosse team at the University of Denver. 2014: The 2014 campaign saw Denver finish 16-3, and a perfect 6-0 in the program's first season in the BIG EAST. In addition in 2011, he helped Denver secure its first NCAA Tournament victory with a 13-10 win over Villanova in the first-ever NCAA Tournament game west of the Mississippi River. His first recruiting class, the Class of 1992, arrived the following fall. Tierney led the Pioneers to their second-straight ECAC Regular Season Title and helped to guide them to the first-ever ECAC Tournament Championship. Denver remained unbeaten at 26-0 all-time in BIG EAST regular season play to take its fifth-straight BIG EAST title. Tierney's impact on the student-athletes at Denver has resulted in nine USILA First Team All-Americans (program's first nine), nine USILA Second Team All-Americans, five USILA Third Team All-Americans, 22 USILA All-America Honorable Mention selections, nine USILA Scholar All-Americans, one ECAC Offensive Player of the Year, four BIG EAST Attackmen of the Year, five BIG EAST Midfielders of the Year, two ECAC Rookie of the Year award winners, one ECAC Defensive Player of the Year, two BIG EAST Defensive Players of the Year and Specialist of the Year, two BIG EAST Goalkeepers of the Year, 47 all-conference first team selections and 23 all-conference second team selections. 1 Overall in the MLL Collegiate Draft, joining senior LSM Sean Mayle who was taken sixth overall. 2013: With his first freshman class becoming seniors, Tierney and his coaching staff took the Pioneers' to new heights once again in his fourth season. Connor Cannizzaro was named a Tewaaraton finalist, DU's second in as many years. 2017: Denver opened the campaign with six-straight at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium, going 5-1 to open the stretch. 2015: Sitting at 4-2 through its first six games, Denver ended the 2015 campaign on a 13-game winning streak to win the title. 6 with a 10-9 overtime win in 2001. Story Links. Tierney and the Pioneers won both the BIG EAST Regular Season and the BIG EAST Tournament titles in 2014. His daughter Brianne Tierney, a former player at Loyola of Maryland and Colgate, is currently the women's head coach at Kent State, which will begin varsity play in the 2019 season; her husband Dylan Sheridan is the assistant coach at Ohio State and was the men's head coach at Cleveland State. LXTC is the umbrella brand that powers the University of Denver Pioneers lacrosse camps, clinics and tournaments, the Denver Elite club teams, and the USBOXLA Denver box lacrosse programs. PHILADELPHIA -- When Bill Tierney left Princeton for the University of Denver, he knew and understood he would face some criticism. The Denver Pioneers men's lacrosse team represents the University of Denver (DU) in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college lacrosse.The DU men's lacrosse program was first introduced in 1966 as a club sport. Denver would go on to finish 9-1 in-front of 10 sellout crowds at Peter Barton in 2017. Although the Pioneers dropped a 14-8 decision to eventual NCAA Champion Virginia, Denver still had reason to celebrate. 1 Maryland in the national semifinals. His next stop was Baltimore, where he served as an assistant at Johns Hopkins for three years. Following the campaign, senior faceoff specialist Trevor Baptiste became the sixth player in the history of the sport to earn First Team All-America status in all four years of his college career, and was named a Tewaaraton Award Finalist for the second-straight year, giving Denver four in four seasons. The program alternated between varsity and club status until entering Division I in 1999. He was elected to the Long Island Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1995 and the New Jersey Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1999. After dropping its first contest in more than a year to Penn State, Denver stayed perfect in its three seasons in BIG EAST play, going 5-0 in its regular season schedule. University of Denver men’s lacrosse coach Bill Tierney stands in the middle of the field at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium on campus. 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