CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Michael Terranova, the now former Director of Lacrosse Operations for the Harvard Men's Lacrosse program has been promoted to Assistant Coach for the upcoming 2024 season. The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Lacrosse, Gerry Byrne, brought Terranova onto the staff in 2023, and will now task him with coaching the goalies and the face-off efforts for the team.
 
"Coach Terranova's influence on our program in the last 13 months as our director of lacrosse operations was astounding, making it an easy decision to promote him to our new assistant coach role to work with our goalies and faceoff unit," said Byrne. "As a former Division II Head coach and Division I assistant, Coach T brings professionalism, focus, experience and a player-friendly approach to all he interacts with."
 
Terranova joined the Crimson in 2023 after spending the previous five seasons as the Head Men's Lacrosse Coach and Admissions Liaison at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. This was his second stint at CHC, the first lasting from 2009-2014 as the team's Associate Head Coach. In his time at the helm of the program, Terranova led the team to a record of 44-24 and earned two Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament Championships.
 
No stranger to the Division I lacrosse landscape, Terranova served as an assistant men's Lacrosse coach at Lafayette College in between his stops at CHC. Terranova was tabbed the offensive coordinator and face-off coach while in Lafayette, keying in on creating offensive sets and developing player skills. His other duties while with the Leopards included leading recruiting efforts, coordinating travel operations, and managing all prospect camps and clinics.
 
A graduate of SUNY Buffalo, Terranova went back to school at Chestnut Hill College, completing a master's degree in administration of human services in 2017. The Syracuse, N.Y. native played football at Christopher Newport college before transferring to SUNY Buffalo.
 
Terranova and the Crimson will soon return to the field to begin preparing for the 2024 season that is set to begin in February.