Coach Profile
LUKE WIERMAN
Career Highlights
- HONOR ROLL
- 2nd on Maryland’s career faceoff wins list with 637, just 11 away from tying Andy Claxton’s all-time record of 648.
- 3rd on Maryland’s career groundballs list with 339.
- Program record holder for faceoffs won (298) and faceoffs taken (451) in a single-season in 2022.
- With 160 groundballs in 2022, second-most in a single-season in program history.
- 2023 USILA Third Team All-American
- 2023 Inside Lacrosse Third Team All-American
- 2023 USA Lacrosse Honorable Mention All-American
- 2023 Big Ten Specialist Of The Week (4/11 & 4/18)
- 2x (2023, 2022) Tewaaraton Award Top-25
- 2x (2023, 2022) All-Big Ten First Team
- 2023 USILA First Team All-American
- 2022 USA Lacrosse Magazine Second Team All-American
- 2022 Inside Lacrosse First Team All-American
- 2022 Big Ten Specialist of the Year
- 2022 Big Ten Specialist of the Week (2/15, 3/1, 3/22)
- 2022 USILA Team of the Week (2/15)
- 2021, 2022, 2023 Academic All-Big Ten
- 2022
- Set Maryland records with 298 faceoffs won and 451 faceoffs taken (64% won)
- Second-most GB in program history with 160
- Finished season with second-best faceoff win rate in nation
- Named Big Ten Specialist of the Week (2/15) and named to the USILA Team of the Week after he won a career-high 19 face-offs against Loyola (2/12), going 76% from the X while scoring two goals, notching an assist and picking up a career-best 11 ground balls. His three points were a career-best. The 19 wins were tied for ninth all time at Maryland for a single game
- Six ground balls in win over High Point (2/6) … Two goals and 1 assist as well as a career-high 11 ground ball pickups to help defeat Loyola (2/12)
- Two ground balls in victory against Syracuse (2/20)
- Two goals and tied his career high with 11 ground balls against Princeton (2/26)
- Seven ground balls to help defeat Notre Dame (3/5)
- Three ground ball pickups in victory over Albany (3/12)
- 1 assist, and picked up a career-high 13 ground balls to help defeat #2 Virginia (3/19)
- One goal and ten ground balls in win over Penn State (3/27) One goal and one assist, along with tying his career high in ground balls with 13 in win against Michigan (4/2)
- Six ground balls in win over #4 Rutgers (4/10)
- One goal and 12 ground balls in win over #9 Ohio State (4/17)
- Six ground balls in win over Johns Hopkins (5/4)
- 12 groundballs and 20 faceoff victories in win over Rutgers to win Big Ten Tournament (5/7)
- Ten groundballs and a 16/19 faceoff performance in 21-5 drubbing of Vermont (5/15)
- Career-high two assists plus 12 GB and 20 faceoff wins against Virginia (5/22)
- Thirteen faceoff wins and nine groundballs against Princeton (5/28)
- Thirteen faceoff wins and eight groundballs in NCAA Championship Game victory over Cornell (5/30)
- 2021
- Played in 12 games as one of the team’s primary faceoff specialists
- Went 87/192 from the faceoff X
- Won double digit faceoffs in five different games
- Tied for third on the team with 43 ground balls
- Tallied a goal in NCAA Tournament win over Vermont (5/16)…notched an assist and caused two turnovers in OT comeback win over Notre Dame in Quarterfinals (5/22)
- Came off the bench and won 14 faceoffs in National Championship game vs. Virginia (5/31)
- BEFORE MARYLAND
- Four year letter-winner at B. Reed Henderson
- Senior year tallied 28 goals, 30 assists and 77% face off pct
- 2018 Under Armour Philadelphia Team
- State runner-up Freshmen year
- 2nd team All-League
- 3x First Team All-League
- 2x First Team All-Area
- All-American and All-State (2019)
- Inside Lacrosse Tournament 1st team selection
- Rough Riders lacrosse club member
