Completed Event: Men's Lacrosse at RV/#19 Fairfield on March 1, 2025 , Loss , 7, to, 15
Men's Lacrosse
at RV/#19 Fairfield
Final
7
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15
Providence College Athletics
Men's Lacrosse
Gabrielli, Chris
Chris Gabrielli
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- cgabrie1@providence.edu
- Phone:
- (401) 865-2007
Chris Gabrielli became the eighth head coach of the Providence College men’s lacrosse program on June 21, 2012 and is embarking on his tenth season with the team.
In 2020-21, Gabrielli had five All-BIG EAST selections. Graduate students Dan Axelson, Tim Hinrichs and Ryan Nawrocki, along with seniors Emmett Jennings and Toby Burgdorf were all named to the All-BIG EAST Second Team. Axelson, Jennings, Nawrocki and graduate student Nick Shaw also earned All-New England Second Team honors. The Friars went to the BIG EAST Tournament for the fifth-consecutive year. Providence, who entered the tournament as a No. 4 seed, fell in the semifinals to the No. 1 seed Denver.
Gabrielli led the Friars to their fourth-consecutive BIG EAST Tournament in 2019. The Friars who entered the tournament as a No. 3 seed, fell in the Semifinals to No. 2 seed Georgetown. Senior Tate Boyce was named BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Year. Junior Matt Grillo and senior Colin Keating were named to the BIG EAST All-Tournament team.
Gabrielli had three All-BIG EAST selections in 2018. Senior James Barclay was a unanimous First Team selection. Junior Tate Boyce joined him on the First Team, while freshman Evan McGreen collected Second Team Honors. Barclay and Boyce also earned All-New England Second Team honors. Barclay was drafted for both the MLL (57th overall) and NLL (ninth overall) at the conclusion of his career. Jake Cook was also taken in the NLL draft (65th overall).
During the 2017 season, Gabrielli led the Friars to their second-consecutive BIG EAST Tournament since the conference began sponsoring men’s lacrosse in 2010. The Friars entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed and advanced to the Championship game. This marked the first time in program history that the program advanced to the final of the BIG EAST Tournament. The Friars finished 10-7 on the season, tying the program’s record for wins.
Gabrielli also led his team to numerous accolades on the 2017 season, most notably two All-America honors. Jarrod Neumann was named to the All-America Second Team and Tate Boyce earned All-America Third team recognition. Neumann and Boyce also earned BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year and Goalkeeper of the Year, respectively, under the direction of Coach Gabrielli. Five Friars earned BIG EAST honors during the 2017 season. Under the leadership of Gabrielli, the Providence lacrosse coaching staff were named 2017 BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year.
During the 2016 season, Gabrielli led the Friars to their first BIG EAST Tournament appearance. The season marked the second-consecutive season under Gabrielli that players earned All-BIG EAST First-Team recognition. Jarrod Neumann ‘17 and Tate Boyce ‘19 were named to the All-BIG EAST First Team. Will Mazzone ‘16 and Michael Perettine ‘16 were also named to the All-BIG EAST Second Team.
In 2015, Gabrielli coached Peter Badgley ‘15 to BIG EAST Goaltender of the Year and All-BIG EAST First Team honors. It marked the first time in program history that a Friar had been named BIG EAST Goaltender of the Year. Additionally, Jarrod Neumann joined Badgley on the All-BIG EAST First Team. The duo made history, again, as the first players in the program to earn All-BIG EAST First-Team honors.
Over the past six seasons, Gabrielli has mentored two student-athletes to BIG EAST Goaltender of the Year (2015, 2017). In addition, he’s coached four All-BIG EAST First Team selections, six All-BIG EAST Second Team selections, three student-athletes to the All-New England First Team, three student-athletes to the All-New England Second Team and five student-athletes to the Preseason All-BIG EAST Team. Following the 2013 season, Gabrielli was named New England Coach of the Year.
Gabrielli came to Providence College after spending the previous six seasons as an assistant coach at Duke University, where he worked primarily with the Blue Devils’ defensive unit. He also served as the program’s recruiting coordinator, under the direction of current Duke Head Coach John Danowski.
While at Duke, Gabrielli helped guide the program to six NCAA Final Four appearances (2007-12) and two trips to the National Championship game (2007, 2010). The Blue Devils went on to win the National Championship in 2010. Duke also captured five ACC regular-season titles (2007-09, 2011-12) and four ACC Tournament titles (2007-09, 2012).
Under the watchful eye of Gabrielli, Duke’s defense consistently ranked among the best nationally. Annually one of the stingiest defenses in Division I lacrosse, Duke was among the top 10 in scoring defense in 2007 and 2008 and was among the top 25 every year under Gabrielli. In the 2010 NCAA finals, the Blue Devils held Notre Dame to just five goals in their 6-5 overtime victory, tying for the second fewest goals allowed in a NCAA championship game.
During his six seasons with the Blue Devils, Gabrielli mentored seven players to 11 All-America awards. Some of these players include Nick O’Hara, a first-team All- America choice and the 2008 William F. Schmeisser Award recipient as the national defenseman of the year, 2012 ACC Co-Defensive Player of the Year and four-time All- American CJ Costabile and 2008 ACC Rookie of the Year and two-time All-America selection Michael Manley. Four of Gabrielli’s former student-athletes currently suit up for Major League Lacrosse squads, including Manley who was picked third overall in this year’s MLL draft.
Gabrielli spent the 2006 season as an assistant coach at Butler where he served as the recruiting coordinator, while working primarily with the defense. Under his mentorship, three Butler defensemen earned All-GWLL honors.
Gabrielli was a member of the coaching staff at his alma mater, Massachusetts, from 2003-05, helping the Minutemen to a 33-13 overall record with two NCAA quarterfinal berths.
Gabrielli was a member of the practice squad for the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse during the 2004 season before being drafted again by the Cannons in the 2005 Supplemental Draft. In 2004, he co-founded the Mid-Summer Classic, a high school lacrosse tournament currently held on the UMass campus.
A four-year letter winner as a defenseman at Massachusetts, Gabrielli picked up 127 ground balls and added five assists in his career. As a senior in 2001, he captained the Minutemen to a 12-2 overall record and a share of the ECAC Championship, while earning Second-Team All-Conference and First-Team All-New England honors. A two-time winner of the Eric Sopracasa “Heart and Soul Award,” an honor presented annually to the UMass player who displays the most leadership and dedication to the program, Gabrielli went on to play in the 2001 North- South All-Star game and the MLL Major League Challenge.
A native of Farmingdale, N.Y., Gabrielli graduated from Massachusetts in 2001 with a degree in sport management. He and his wife, Candice, have two daughters, Grace and Emma.
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