Will Scudder

Biography

Former associate head coach Will Scudder '11 was named head lacrosse coach June 19, 2023. Scudder will enter his 13th year on staff and third year as a head coach in 2025-26. He spent five years as an associate head coach and seven years as the defensive coordinator. Scudder was named defensive coordinator prior to the 2016 season and associate head coach following the 2018 season. Scudder was a former team captain and All-Patriot League honoree as a Mountain Hawk. Scudder has helped Lehigh jump back into the national spotlight, making three consecutive Patriot League Championship games in 2018, 2019 and 2021 (the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Lehigh is the only men’s lacrosse program in the Patriot League to each of the last 10 Patriot League Tournaments. Entering 2022, the Mountain Hawks are ranked in the national polls for a fourth straight season. This comes after a 2021 campaign which saw Lehigh rise as high as No. 5 in the rankings. The Mountain Hawks began the season 9-0, with wins over No. 10 Loyola, No. 7 Army West Point and No. 19 Navy. Lehigh was the second-to-last team in the nation to lose a game in 2021. The Mountain Hawks finished 8-0 in the Patriot League (regular season) before beating Colgate in the semifinals. The championship game was cancelled due to a positive COVID-19 test in Loyola’s tier 1 testing pool, but Lehigh earned the No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament – the second time in three all-time NCAA berths that the Mountain H