Men's Lacrosse
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- erw211@lehigh.edu
- Phone:
- 610-758-4762
- Alma Mater:
- First Season
Errol Wilson is in his seventh season as a Lehigh assistant coach, and fourth as associate head coach in 2017.
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The former Stony Brook goalie has held several roles with the Mountain Hawks. After his first season as defensive coordinator in 2015, Wilson has served as offensive coordinator since 2016, a role he held at Brown University. Over his tenure at Lehigh, has also served as associate offensive coordinator, goalie coordinator and camps/clinics/tournaments coordinator.
In his first season on staff, Wilson helped lead the Mountain Hawks to new heights, including a school-record 14 wins, a program record nine-game winning streak and its highest-ever national ranking (No. 4) along with its first Patriot League Tournament Title and NCAA Tournament appearance. It marked Wilson’s second NCAA Tournament appearance as assistant coach after leading Brown to the 2009 tournament where it dropped an overtime heartbreaker at Johns Hopkins.
Wilson worked with All-American goalie Matt Poillon, who finished second nationally with a 6.75 GAA and fourth with a 59.7 save percentage, becoming Lehigh’s first-ever Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year. Poillon earned four Patriot League Goalie of the Week honors while garnering Rookie of the Week twice. In addition, each one of Lehigh’s close defensemen was named All-Patriot League: Ty Souders (First), Mike Noone (second) and Lukas Mikelinich (second).
The Mountain Hawks owned the nation’s No. 2 scoring defense (only behind Notre Dame), holding opponents to only 6.81 goals per game. Lehigh picked up its first shutout in 40 years with a 13-0 triumph over Manhattan, allowed only two goals to VMI and five or fewer to Penn State, Navy, Holy Cross, Penn and Saint Joseph’s. The squad extended its shutout streak to an incredible 90:14 before the Quakers scored with 5:04 remaining in the second quarter. The streak spanned from the fourth quarter against Villanova, through the entire Manhattan contest and the first 24:56 at Penn.
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The Mountain Hawks followed in 2013 by finishing sixth nationally in scoring defense (7.94 goals per game) with Poillon earning Goalie of the Year honors for a second straight season. Noone and Souders also garnered All-League honors for the second year in a row while both garnering honorable mention All-America recognition. Lehigh held Saint Joseph’s to only one goal, VMI to only two, Holy Cross, Lafayette and Bucknell to five and Army, UMass and Penn to just six goals apiece. One of the most dominant performances came in the Patriot League Championship game as the Mountain Hawks won 11-5 for their second straight league title and NCAA Tournament berth.
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Lehigh advanced to its third straight Patriot League Championship Game in 2014, finishing the season 13-5 and within just one win of tying the school record set two years prior. The defense allowed just 7.22 goals per game, good for second in the nation and just 0.01 behind the nation’s leader. Over the three-year timeframe from 2012-14, Lehigh owned the nation’s lowest goals against average. Wilson also worked with an offense that came into its own as the season progressed. Dan Taylor finished the season with 76 points, leading the team and Patriot League in scoring which also stood seventh in the nation. He was named an All-American after the season, as was Poillon and defenseman Tripp Telesco.
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The Mountain Hawks struggled to begin 2015, but bounced back in a big way. Lehigh defeated a pair of nationally-ranked opponents in a five-day span, earning wins over No. 14 Princeton and at Wilson’s alma mater and No. 18 Stony Brook. The Mountain Hawks defeated Lafayette in their regular season finale, their fifth win in six games, to reach their fifth straight Patriot League Tournament.
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Lehigh went onto its sixth straight league tournament appearance in 2016, highlighted by an exciting 8-7 win at No. 20 Boston University. In Wilson's first season as offensive coordinator in 2016, senior attackman Reid Weber was named first team All-Patriot League while freshman Tristan Rai jumped onto the national scene with a vengeance; scoring 31 goals on just 58 shots; his .534 shooting percentage was good for second in the nation. The Mountain Hawks followed in 2017 by reaching their seventh straight league tournament, highlighted by consecutive home wins over nationally-ranked opponents – defeating No. 16/18 Boston University 10-6 and No. 13/14 Princeton 15-10. The 15 goals tied for a season high, also set against NIJT and Lafayette. Rai continued his strong play with 46 points (22 goals, team-high 24 assists) while classmate Andrew Pettit emerged as well, tallying 46 himself behind a team-high 35 goals. Pettit began the season with nine straight multi-goal games. His first game without multiple goals came Apr. 8 at Loyola as he was the only player in the nation to score multiple goals in every game up until that point.
At Rutgers, Wilson helped the Scarlet Knights win five of their first six games in 2011 and coached a defense which allowed only 8.27 goals per game.
Prior to Rutgers, Wilson served as assistant coach at Brown for four seasons (2007-10). While there, he was both offensive coordinator and goalie coach, helping the Bears reach new heights by winning an Ivy League Championship in 2008, then earning an NCAA Tournament berth in ’09. Wilson worked with and mentored one of the nation’s top goalies in Jordan Burke. The 2009 USILA Goalie of the Year, Burke was twice named the Ivy League Player of the Year and New England Player of the Year, while earning First Team All-America honors as well.
Wilson was a four-year letterwinner at Stony Brook where he was teammates with goalie and former Lehigh assistant and current Dartmouth head coach Brendan Callahan. Wilson resides in Bethlehem with his wife Pat and sons Roman and Solomon.
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