Former Duke standout Wray joins Lehigh staff

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh head coach Kevin Cassese has announced the addition of Taylor Wray to the Mountain Hawks coaching staff. Wray joins Cassese and assistant Brendan Callahan in completing Lehigh’s staff for the upcoming 2008 season. “It is a tremendous opportunity to join a program which holds both academics and athletics in such high regard,” Wray explained. “I am extremely excited to be a part of the Lehigh Lacrosse Family and I look forward to helping Coach Cassese lead the Mountain Hawks lacrosse team to new levels of success both on and off the field."

Wray arrives at Lehigh following a three-year coaching stint at Queens University of Charlotte where his duties included recruiting, travel arrangements, practice and game preparation, scheduling, fund raising, and video preparation and analysis. While at Queens, Wray also earned his masters degree in teaching in 2006.

“It is my pleasure to announce Taylor Wray as the head assistant coach of the Lehigh Men's Lacrosse Program,” explained Cassese. “Taylor has coaching and teaching experience from Queens University of Charlotte where he spent three years as an assistant coach while studying to earn his masters degree in education.”

He continued, “His playing career has taken him to the highest levels of the lacrosse world at Duke University as an undergrad and in the National Lacrosse League as a professional lacrosse player with the Calgary Roughnecks and now the Philadelphia Wings. Taylor is one of the finest leaders I have ever been around and is a natural born teacher and coach."

From September 2006 through August of 2007, Wray worked as a lacrosse coach, academic coordinator and a strength and conditioning specialist at the National Sport Academy in Canada. A standout player during his undergrad days at Duke University, Wray served as team captain of the Blue Devils, along with Cassese, in 2003. Wray earned the Eric Tyler Hardy Defensive Player of the Year that same season. During his time in Durham, Wray helped lead Duke to three NCAA Tournament appearances (2000-2002) and a pair of ACC Tournament Championships (2001, 2002). A four-year letterwinner, Wray was a four-time member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.

Following his time at Duke, Wray was drafted second overall by the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) where he made quite a splash in his first season when he was named the 2004 Rookie of the Year, the Defensive Player of the Year and a First-Team All-Pro, while helping lead the Roughnecks to the NLL Championship. Wray was selected to the NLL All-Star team in 2006 and 2007.

Wray has also achieved a great deal of success on the international lacrosse circuit. In 1999, he was a member of the Under-19 Field Lacrosse World Championship silver medalists, while in 2006 he won the world championship in field lacrosse in the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF). In 2007, Wray won the ILF Indoor Lacrosse World Championship while garnering All-World Team accolades.

Wray graduated from Duke in 2003 with a bachelors degree in biological anthropology and anatomy.

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