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 Philadelphia Barrage of

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. Resch graduated from

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, where he was a two-time

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and three-time First Team All-

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player. Resch also won a

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in the 1990

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held in Perth, Australia as a member of Team USA. He is currently a guidance counselor at La Salle College High School, in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. He also serves as the Defensive Coordinator for the La Salle Lacrosse team, and assistant to head coach Jack Forster. La Salle has won five Pennsylvania State Championships during his coaching tenure. He resides in Flourtown, Pennsylvania 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

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as a graduate student. Patrick currently plays for Chaos LC in the Premier Lacrosse League. 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

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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 Wings Head Coach from

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. 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

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, and

. As Head Coach of the Wings, Resch had a 59-27 regular season record.

MLL coaching career

Resch joined the Philadelphia Barrage of

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 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, 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

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and

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in Netanya, Israel. He was also the Head Coach of the 2015 USA Indoor Team, that earned a Bronze Medal at the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship played on the Onondaga Reservation in New York.

Awards

, Resch was presented with the inaugural NLL Coach of the Year award. The award was renamed to the Les Bartley Award in 2004. In

and 2008, Resch was awarded the Warrior Major League Lacrosse Coach of the Year Award. Resch was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame in February, 2008. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame City All Star Chapter in 2011 and the Montgomery County Chapter in 2018.

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