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Michael Leahy to Become New Lacrosse Coach
Former University of Virginia lacrosse player Michael Leahy will begin service as head lacrosse coach at Woodberry Forest in the summer of 2019. Leahy will join the Woodberry community this winter and serve as an assistant to current head coach Spotty Robins ‘04 this spring. Leahy will also serve as assistant director in the Office of Admission.
Headmaster Byron Hulsey '86 praised Robins’ leadership of the program and his service to the school over the past four years and congratulated Leahy on his appointment.
“Spotty’s work at Woodberry and his stewardship of our lacrosse program have been excellent,” Hulsey said. “While we’ll miss Spotty as he moves home to Richmond, we’re thrilled to have landed Coach Leahy and happy that he’ll be able to work with the program this spring as he and his family make the transition to Woodberry Forest.”
Leahy emerged quickly in Woodberry’s search for Robins’ successor.
“We are extremely excited to welcome Coach Leahy to Woodberry,” Woodberry Forest Athletic Director Matt Blundin said. “His rich background in lacrosse along with a contagious passion for teaching the game will make Michael a perfect fit to develop our boys as players and people.”
Pointing to Leahy’s connections in the Virginia lacrosse community and his enthusiasm for the game, Coach Robins is looking forward to the coming season. “I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Michael and his family to the Woodberry Forest community,” Robins stated. “I cannot wait to share the sideline with him again this spring and am excited for the future of Woodberry lacrosse.”
Leahy has nearly twenty years of coaching experience in high school and club programs, including co-founding Amped Lacrosse in Richmond and serving for a decade as director of Geronimo Youth Lacrosse in Richmond. He is currently director of the Boston Kings club lacrosse program.
A leader on the 1999 UVa lacrosse team that won the school’s first NCAA national title since 1972, Leahy graduated from UVa that year with a degree in history. Off the field he has worked in equity sales for a variety of national and international financial firms in both Richmond and Boston. He noted that “it’s difficult to put into words how excited I am to join the Woodberry Forest community. My family and I can’t wait to land on campus and begin this chapter of our lives as Tigers.”
Leahy, his wife Maggie, and their children, Will (12), Annie (10), and Ned (3) will move to the area in the coming weeks so that the family can make the transition to our community and so that Michael can begin work in the admissions office and with the lacrosse program.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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