Tony Resch is a retired lacrosse player, and current field and box lacrosse coach. He is the former head coach of the Philadelphia Wings of the

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from 1994 to 2001, and led the Wings to four Championships. Resch was named to the NLL Hall of Fame in 2008. Resch returned to coaching as the head coach of the

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. Resch graduated from

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, where he was a two-time All-American and three-time First Team All-

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player. Resch also won a gold medal in the 1990

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held in

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as a member of Team USA. He is currently a guidance counselor at

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, in

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. He also serves as Defensive Coordinator for the La Salle Lacrosse team, and assistant to head coach Rob Forster. La Salle has won five Pennsylvania State Championships during his coaching tenure. He resides in

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with his wife, Mary, and their three sons, Patrick, Brendan, and Conor. Patrick played collegiate lacrosse at

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as an undergraduate where he was a two-time captain, and later played at Duke University as a graduate student. Patrick currently plays for Chaos LC in the

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. Conor also played lacrosse at Yale University.

NLL playing career

Resch played as a defenseman with the Philadelphia Wings of the

for six seasons, and was Team Captain for three seasons. He scored 12 goals and was credited with 10 assists during his playing career. He was a member of the MILL Championship Philadelphia Wings teams in 1989 season and 1990 season.

NLL coaching career

Resch was the

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Head Coach from

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to 2001. Under the guidance of Resch, the Wings went to the

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s every season he was head coach, and won the Championship in

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, and 2001. As Head Coach of the

, Resch had a 59-27 regular season record.

MLL coaching career

Resch joined the

as head coach in 2005. In his first season as coach, the team finished 4-8, and missed the playoffs. In his second season as Head Coach in 2006, Resch led the Barrage to the

Championship while finishing the regular season 10-2. The Barrage were repeat champions in 2007 with a record of 9-3. Resch was an Assistant Coach for the Baltimore/Chesapeake Bayhawks during Championship seasons in 2002, 2012, and 2013.

International

In addition to earning a Gold Medal as a player in the

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, Resch was an Assistant Coach for the Gold Medal-winning USA National Teams in 2010 in

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and

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. He was also the Head Coach of the 2015 USA Indoor Team, that earned a Bronze Medal at the

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played on the

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in New York.

Awards

In 2001, Resch was presented with the inaugural NLL Coach of the Year award. The award was renamed to the

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in 2004. In 2006 and 2008, Resch was awarded the Warrior

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. Resch was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame in February, 2008. He was elected to the

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City All Star Chapter in 2011 and the Montgomery County Chapter in 2018.

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