
Coach Profile
NICK ROWLETT
WEST
HEAD COACH
Career Highlights
- PLL CAROLINA CHAOS
- 117-225 FO
- 52% FO%
- 3 P
- 1 A
- 81 GB
- NLL PHILADELPHIA WINGS (2024)
- AT MICHIGAN
- Finished 2023 season at 56%
- 500+ career face off wins
- 6 career goals
- 300+ ground balls (most in school history)
- 1 point in 13 games (2022)
- 124 – 224 (55% won) (2022)
- Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2022)
- USILA Academic All-America (2022)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2022)
- First Team All-Big Ten (2021)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2021)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2020)
- Big Ten Specialist of the Week (March 9, 2021)
- MGoBlue.com Male Breakthrough Athlete of the Year (2021)
- USILA Team of the Week (April 25, 2023)
- Selected by Chaos LC with the 23rd pick (third round) of the 2023 PLL College Draft
- SENIOR (2022)
- Played in 13 games, going 125-of-226 (55 percent) at the dot
- Collected 75 ground balls, with a trio of double-digit efforts versus Bellarmine (Feb. 5), Maryland (April 2), and Penn State (April 8)
- Won 15-plus draws on four occasions; Bellarmine (Feb. 5), Detroit (Feb. 12), and Maryland (April 2)
- Missed a pair of games and was limited in four others due to injury
- Went 13-of-21 against Marquette (March 1)
- Went 10-of-17 against Cleveland State (Feb. 26)
- Went 12-of-23 against Canisius (Feb. 22)
- Went 15-of-24 against Detroit (Feb. 12)
- Went 15-of-21 against Bellarmine (Feb. 5)
- GRADUATE STUDENT (2023)
- Won 146-of-261 of draws (56 percent), coupled with 100 ground balls
- Ranked 23rd in the country and third in the Big Ten in faceoff percentage
- Came in 31st nationally and second in the conference in ground balls per contest (5.88)
- Became the seventh Wolverine to be drafted by a professional outdoor lacrosse franchise, as he went to Chaos LC with the 23rd pick (third round) of the PLL Draft
- Finished U-M career as all-time leader in ground ball pickups (311) and second in career faceoff percentage (54 percent, 518-of-953)
- Had double-digit ground balls with 11 vs. Harvard (March 11), 14 vs. Ohio State (April 21), and 10 versus Penn State (May 4)
- Went 15-of-20 at the dot against Ohio State (April 21) with 14 ground balls
- SENIOR (2022)
- Played in 13 games, going 125-of-226 (55 percent) at the dot
- Collected 75 ground balls, with a trio of double-digit efforts versus Bellarmine (Feb. 5), Maryland (April 2), and Penn State (April 8)
- Won 15-plus draws on four occasions; Bellarmine (Feb. 5), Detroit (Feb. 12), and Maryland (April 2)
- Missed a pair of games and was limited in four others due to injury
- Went 13-of-21 against Marquette (March 1)
- Went 10-of-17 against Cleveland State (Feb. 26)
- Went 12-of-23 against Canisius (Feb. 22)
- Went 15-of-24 against Detroit (Feb. 12)
- Went 15-of-21 against Bellarmine (Feb. 5)
- JUNIOR (2021)
- First Team All-Big Ten
- Went 172-of-320 (54 percent) at the dot with a U-M single-season record 100 ground balls
- Led conference and ranked No. 6 nationally in ground balls per game (8.33)
- Ranked No. 4 in the Big Ten and No. 30 nationally in faceoff percentage
- Set U-M single-game record for faceoff wins and groundballs in a game against Rutgers (March 6), winning 25-of-38 draws and 16 ground balls
- Began season with a 15-of-28 effort with eight ground balls against Maryland (Feb. 20)
- Proved to be an offensive threat with three goals on the year on eight shots
- SOPHOMORE (2020)
- Went 22-29 from the circle and picked up 13 ground balls in U-M’s 13-12 victory over Marquette (March 11)
- Scored one goal and won 8 face-offs against Merrimack (Feb. 22)
- Went 10-14 from the dot while scooping up six ground balls against Canisius (Feb. 18)
- Won 14 face-offs and picked up six ground balls against Cleveland State (Feb. 8)
- FRESHMAN (2019)
- Missed season due to injury
- PREP
- Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, Va. (2018)
- Rated a four-star recruit, No. 44 overall in the Inside Lacrosse Power 100, and the No. 4 face-off man in the country
- Three-time all-conference
- Named all-state and all-region senior year
- Honorable mention All-Met (2018)
- Face Off Academy National Showcase winner (2017-18)
- Had 164 ground balls and 28 goals as a senior
- Honor roll student