Boston College Athletics
Lamb Hires Assistant Field Hockey Coach
May 02, 2005 | Field Hockey
May. 2, 2005
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS. -- Andrew Griffiths, assistant field hockey coach at University of Maryland since 1998, has been named assistant coach of the Boston College field hockey team, head coach Ainslee Lamb announced.
"Andrew is an exceptional coach and person that thrives on making student-athletes achieve success in all of their pursuits," says Lamb. "He is fully invested in making BC excel to the next level. His previous ACC experiences are priceless to our learning curve as we enter the conference."
Griffiths has been a field hockey coach for 15 years, participating with teams at the collegiate, international, elite, and developmental levels. Most recently, he held a variety of responsibilities at Maryland, a perennial nationally-strong program. Griffiths made three Final Four appearances in four years with the Terps, and the team was ranked in the top ten of every coaches poll for four consecutive seasons. In addition, he was an assistant coach on the U.S. Under-21 team that placed second in Puerto Rico and qualified for the Junior World Cup to be held in Chile this September.
While at Maryland, Griffiths also served as head coach of the Maryland/Virginia Elite Performance Training Center (2004-05), as assistant coach of the USA National Team (2003-04), and as a coach in a variety of summer league and camp settings.
Prior to his post at Maryland, Griffiths also served as head coach of the Toronto Field Hockey Club in Ontario, Canada (1994-98) and, prior to that, the head coach at the University of Western Ontario (1990-94).
A native of Canada, Griffiths received a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He then received a bachelor of applied arts in journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto in 1998. He competed for Team Canada for 12 years in 214 international contests, including the 2000 Olympic Games. He is author of several books, instructional videos, and a website.
