Wilmington College

Brian Kingsbury was named the Quakers head men's lacrosse coach on June 10th, 2025. The 2026 spring season will be his first at Wilmington College.

Brian is no stranger to collegiate coaching, as he has spent 18 seasons on the sidelines spanning NCAA Division I, II, and III institutions, including 11 as a head coach.

Kingsbury comes to Wilmington College after three seasons as an Assistant Coach at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Before Mercer, Kingsbury spent nine seasons as the Head Coach of the Lynn University Fighting Knights in Boca Raton, Florida, starting the program from scratch.

He was also the Head Coach of the Saint Michael's College Purple Knights in Colchester, Vermont and the Head Coach at Vermont State University Castleton.

During three seasons at Mercer, Kingsbury worked closely with the recruiting aspect of the program, helping bring top level high school athletes to Macon. This included evaluating their athletic skills, academic achievements, social responsibility, and character strengths. Kingsbury helped bring the team grade point average (GPA) up from 3.1 to 3.46. Other things Kingsbury was tasked with at Mercer were campus visits, tours, NCAA eligibility, student housing and more.

As the Head Coach at Lynn University, Kingsbury guided the Fighting Knights to national rankings, a regular season conference championship, and three conference tournament semifinal appearances during his nine seasons at the helm (2014-22).

He was named the Sunshine State Conference (SSC) Coach of the Year twice and coached the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Face-Off Player of the Year in 2021. Other player accolades included five All-Americans and 40 All-SSC players. In the classroom, Kingsbury helped guide his team to the highest GPA in all of Division II twice while his team's GPA was above 3.22 in seven of his nine seasons.

During Kingsbury's one season as Head Coach at Saint Michael's College in 2012, he coached the Purple Knights to an 11-5 overall record, which was their most wins in program history at the time. The team finished fourth in their conference and made it to the conference semifinals.

Kingsbury spent one season as the Head Coach at Vermont State University Castleton in 2011, where the Spartans finished undefeated in the conference and won their conference championship to move onto the NCAA Division III Tournament. They finished the season 12-7. Kingsbury was named the Conference Coach of the Year and coached the Co-Conference Player of the Year and the Conference Rookie of the Year. Prior to his time as head coach at Castleton, Kingsbury spent two seasons as the assistant coach of the Spartans. He also earned his Master's in Education – Educational Leadership while at Castleton.

His first coaching job came at the NCAA Division I level in 2008 as a Volunteer Assistant Coach at the University of Massachusetts, where he primarily worked as a scout for the team, editing video and working on faceoff strategy.

Kingsbury played collegiate lacrosse at the University of Maryland for three seasons from 1999-2001 after spending his freshman season at Hofstra University. He graduated from Maryland in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science - Individual Studies Program, Sports Management.
 

Brian Kingsbury's Wilmington College Season-By-Season Record

Season	Overall Record	OAC Record	OAC Tournament
2026	- - -	- - -	- - -
OVERALL	- - -	- - -

*Last updated - June 10th, 2025*