Joining the Neumann staff in October 2013, Kyle Gilfoy begins his first year coaching at the collegiate level. This season, Gilfoy will work closely with the Knights’ goalies.
Playing all four years at Lycoming College, an NCAA Division III program in Williamsport, Pa., Gilfoy graduated as one of the top goalies in program history. In 2008, Gilfoy was named Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Second Team as a junior while also leading the program to back-to-back conference playoff appearances in 2008 and 2009.
Over the course of his career, Gilfoy played nearly 2,600 minutes, making 572 saves in that span, ranking him second all-time in program history. Playing in 52 games with 42 starts, Gilfoy is also second all-time in saves per game at 11.00. His save percentage of .564 ranks him second while his goals against average of 10.31 is good enough to land him in seventh.
In the same season he was named MAC Second Team, Gilfoy stopped a career-best 193 shots, a mark that is fourth for a single season at Lycoming. He improved his 2008 save percentage from .553 to .592 in 2009, an improvement of nearly five percentage points. As a senior, he set the record for goals against average in a season with a scant 8.43 GAA, besting the previous mark of 8.88, a record that stood for nine seasons.
During his time in the crease for the Warriors, Gilfoy collected 25 wins, ranking him second all-time for goalies. His senior year, he tied the program’s mark for wins in a single season with 10, becoming just the second different goalkeeper at Lycoming to hit the double-digit mark in one year. Over the course of his final two years, Gilfoy nabbed 19 wins and had a win percentage of .633.
Under the tutelage of Brian Anken, now the head coach at Division I Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., Gilfoy helped anchor a team that won a program-record 10-straight games from Mar. 18-Apr. 25, 2009, earning nine wins in that span. During that run, the Warriors held opponents to less than six goals a game.
A seven-time MAC Defensive Player of the Week, Gilfoy tied the program’s record for saves in a game, halting 26 shots against rival Widener University on Apr. 18, 2009 at the Warriors’ Robert L. Shangraw Athletic Complex. Earlier in his career, Gilfoy made 22 saves against national power Ithaca College on Feb. 27, 2007, also at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.
Lacrosse in the greater Philadelphia area will be nothing new for Gilfoy, who was a standout keeper at Penncrest High School in his hometown of Media. Gilfoy currently resides in Downington, Pa.
