The 2010 Season will be headed J.B. Clarke, Paul Richards, and Ryan Browning.
J.B. Clarke
JB Clarke was hired as the head coach of the Shoremen lacrosse team in July of 1998. He has compiled a 134-53 record at Washington through 11 seasons and has led the Shoremen into the NCAA Division III Tournament seven times. He reached 100 wins at WC in fewer games than any previous Shoremen head coach.
In 2003, Clarke led the Shoremen to an unbeaten Centennial Conference record and their first conference championship since 1997. In 2004, Clarke again led the Shoremen to an unbeaten regular season Centennial Conference record and guided the Shoremen to a school-record 18 wins and their first berth in the NCAA Division III Semifinals in since 1998.
Clarke came to Chestertown from Division I Loyola College in Baltimore. With Clarke on the staff, the Greyhounds finished the 1998 season ranked number two in the nation in NCAA Division I. At Loyola, Clarke served as the team’s offensive coordinator, a role he also played as an assistant at Duke University and Roanoke College.
Before his position at Loyola in 1998, Clarke served as the head lacrosse coach at Greensboro College in North Carolina in 1997. In just one season, he turned a 3-9 record from the previous year into a 9-5 mark and a Top 20 Division III national ranking.
Clarke’s first college coaching stop was at Ohio State University as an assistant, and then on to Roanoke, where he had played as an undergraduate. After a year as an assistant at Roanoke, Clarke moved on to Duke University, where he worked for four years as the offensive coordinator.
Greensboro College offered him the head coaching position in 1996. While working his magic there in the Spring of 1997, he drew the attention of the people at Loyola, and was hired as an assistant there for the 1998 season.
In over two decades in coaching, including five years at the high school level, teams with which Clarke has been involved have won 310 games and lost only 104.
Paul Richards
Paul Richards was named as a senior assistant coach and offensive coordinator during the summer of 2009. A former professional player in Major League Lacrosse, Richards was a standout student-athlete at Division I Loyola College.
Richards was a first-team All-ECAC selection and North-South Senior All-Star at Loyola while serving as a team captain in 2008. He was also named to the preseason Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List as a senior and was tabbed as a 2008 National Strength and Conditioning Association All-American.
Selected with the 37th overall pick in the 2008 Major League Lacrosse Draft, Richards appeared in six games for the Washington Bayhawks.
Richards served as an assistant coach at Goucher College during the 2008-09 academic year, helping the Gophers earn the top seed in the Landmark Conference Tournament. He has also worked at a variety of lacrosse camps and completed an internship in the Athletic Department at Loyola.
Richards earned a B.A. in Communications from Loyola in 2008.
Ryan Browning
Ryan Browning was named as a senior assistant coach and recruiting coordinator during the summer of 2009. Browning most recently served as the head coach of the boys lacrosse team at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel High School in Baltimore. Browning coached the Cougars to a 9-9 record in his lone season at the helm, marking Mount Carmel’s highest win total of the decade.
A 2008 graduate of Salisbury University, Browning played in three NCAA Division III Championship games with the Sea Gulls, winning National Championships in 2007 and 2008. A long-stick midfielder, Browning was tabbed by Inside Lacrosse as a Preseason All-American prior to his senior season, which was curtailed by injury.
Prior to his three years at Salisbury, Browning played one year of lacrosse at Division I UMBC.
Browning played high school lacrosse at Calvert Hall in Baltimore, earning All-MIAA honors as a senior. He was a member of the Cardinals’ 2003 MIAA Conference Championship team and was also an All-MIAA football player as a senior.