Wrestling
Lausier, Andy
Andy Lausier
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- anlausier@davidson.edu
- Phone:
- 2805
Andy Lausier enters his fifth season at the helm of the Wildcat Wrestling program in 2021-22. He became the 12th head coach of Davidson wrestling in April of 2017.
Lausier’s ability to improve Davidson Wrestling continued its upward trend in 2020-21. Despite a modified, conference-only schedule, the Wildcats’ earned three Southern Conference dual wins, the most in a single-season in program history. They also beat The Citadel for the third time in four seasons – Lausier’s first year commanding the mats at Davidson was the first time a Wildcat team had ever beaten the Bulldogs in over five decades of dual matchups.
Kyle Gorant led the squad on the mats and in the classroom, earning NWCA Scholar All-America Team recognition. Additionally, Davidson returned to the NWCA Scholar Team list, placing their highest in over a decade, ranking 13th with a team GPA of 3.42.
In his first four years at Davidson, Lausier made immense strides to elevate the wrestling program that culminated with a fifth-place finish at the 2020 Southern Conference Championship.
At the 2020 championship, Lausier led a pair of grapplers to the podium in Gorant and Gavin Henry. The year prior, Lausier guided SoCon Finalist Tony Palumbo to a second-place finish. He also had a third-place result at his first conference championship appearance with Conor Fenn taking third.
One of his first orders of business upon arriving on campus was a rebuilding of the wrestling in numbers and aesthetically, and he succeeded in both. Lausier has earned three SoCon All-Freshmen Team honorees (Kyle Gorant and Mitchell Trigg 2019; Cian Fischer 2020) and earned national recognition from TheOpenMat.com for their recruiting class in 2019. While he has gotten the wrestling room numbers up, Lausier also made significant improvements to the room itself, adding updated equipment, technology and branding to give the Charles W. Parker Wrestling Room a fresh look worthy of the growing program.
Lausier’s fundraising efforts have led to over $1,000,000 in new expendable scholarships and helped to hire a second full-time assistant in former All-American Chad Walsh. Lausier’s first hire in 2018 was also a gamechanger when he landed former Virginia Tech standout and fellow All-American, Joey Dance. Adding fellow All-American Chad Walsh in 2019 helped solidify Lausier’s commitment to growing the program into a conference and national threat moving forward.
In the classroom, the Wildcats earned consecutive NWCA All-Academic Team recognition in 2018 and 2019.
Lausier joined the Wildcats after serving four years as head coach at Sacred Heart University. While at SHU, Lausier coached four Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) grapplers onto the podium including that highest placed wrestler in program history. Lausier compiled a top-25 ranked recruiting class in 2013.
Lausier not only guided the Pioneers on the mat, but in the classroom. SHU was twice named a National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic team, ranking second nationally in 2016 and seventh in 2017.
While in Fairfield, he also engineered a nationally recognized fundraising effort that included The March To MSG, where he ran from campus to Madison Square Garden, covering 62 miles in three days. Lausier ramped it up with his next feat, Spinning to St. Louis, where he biked 1,100 miles in seven days from the SHU campus to the Scottrade Center. In doing so, Lausier raised over $150,000.
Prior to SHU, Lausier served as the head assistant at Princeton University for four seasons and proved to be an instrumental piece in rebuilding the Tiger wrestling program.
While at Princeton, Lausier helped compile a nationally ranked recruiting class and coached six EIWA place-winners including a league finalist and two-time NCAA qualifier.
Lausier began his coaching career at Stevens Technical Institute where he built the program from the ground up as the school’s first head coach. He saw immediate results as the Ducks competed in three consecutive NCAA Tournament’s in the first three campaigns. For his efforts, Lausier was named the Centennial Conference Rookie Coach of the Year. Under Lausier, the Ducks boasted a Centennial Conference Wrestler of the Year, a pair of Scholar All-Americans, and reached as high as seventh in the NWCA All-Academic team rankings.
A 2001 graduate of Lycoming College, Lausier was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. Lausier was a three-time NCAA qualifier and earned All-America status in 2000 at 197-pounds.
THE LAUSIER FILE
Education: B.A. – Lycoming College, 2001; M.A. Education – The College of New Jersey, 2003.
LAUSIER YEAR-BY-YEAR
2017-pr.: Davidson (Head Coach)
2012-17: Sacred Heart (Head Coach)
2007-11: Princeton (Head Assistant Coach)
2003-07: Stevens Institute of Technology (Head Coach)
Lausier’s ability to improve Davidson Wrestling continued its upward trend in 2020-21. Despite a modified, conference-only schedule, the Wildcats’ earned three Southern Conference dual wins, the most in a single-season in program history. They also beat The Citadel for the third time in four seasons – Lausier’s first year commanding the mats at Davidson was the first time a Wildcat team had ever beaten the Bulldogs in over five decades of dual matchups.
Kyle Gorant led the squad on the mats and in the classroom, earning NWCA Scholar All-America Team recognition. Additionally, Davidson returned to the NWCA Scholar Team list, placing their highest in over a decade, ranking 13th with a team GPA of 3.42.
In his first four years at Davidson, Lausier made immense strides to elevate the wrestling program that culminated with a fifth-place finish at the 2020 Southern Conference Championship.
At the 2020 championship, Lausier led a pair of grapplers to the podium in Gorant and Gavin Henry. The year prior, Lausier guided SoCon Finalist Tony Palumbo to a second-place finish. He also had a third-place result at his first conference championship appearance with Conor Fenn taking third.
One of his first orders of business upon arriving on campus was a rebuilding of the wrestling in numbers and aesthetically, and he succeeded in both. Lausier has earned three SoCon All-Freshmen Team honorees (Kyle Gorant and Mitchell Trigg 2019; Cian Fischer 2020) and earned national recognition from TheOpenMat.com for their recruiting class in 2019. While he has gotten the wrestling room numbers up, Lausier also made significant improvements to the room itself, adding updated equipment, technology and branding to give the Charles W. Parker Wrestling Room a fresh look worthy of the growing program.
Lausier’s fundraising efforts have led to over $1,000,000 in new expendable scholarships and helped to hire a second full-time assistant in former All-American Chad Walsh. Lausier’s first hire in 2018 was also a gamechanger when he landed former Virginia Tech standout and fellow All-American, Joey Dance. Adding fellow All-American Chad Walsh in 2019 helped solidify Lausier’s commitment to growing the program into a conference and national threat moving forward.
In the classroom, the Wildcats earned consecutive NWCA All-Academic Team recognition in 2018 and 2019.
Lausier joined the Wildcats after serving four years as head coach at Sacred Heart University. While at SHU, Lausier coached four Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) grapplers onto the podium including that highest placed wrestler in program history. Lausier compiled a top-25 ranked recruiting class in 2013.
Lausier not only guided the Pioneers on the mat, but in the classroom. SHU was twice named a National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic team, ranking second nationally in 2016 and seventh in 2017.
While in Fairfield, he also engineered a nationally recognized fundraising effort that included The March To MSG, where he ran from campus to Madison Square Garden, covering 62 miles in three days. Lausier ramped it up with his next feat, Spinning to St. Louis, where he biked 1,100 miles in seven days from the SHU campus to the Scottrade Center. In doing so, Lausier raised over $150,000.
Prior to SHU, Lausier served as the head assistant at Princeton University for four seasons and proved to be an instrumental piece in rebuilding the Tiger wrestling program.
While at Princeton, Lausier helped compile a nationally ranked recruiting class and coached six EIWA place-winners including a league finalist and two-time NCAA qualifier.
Lausier began his coaching career at Stevens Technical Institute where he built the program from the ground up as the school’s first head coach. He saw immediate results as the Ducks competed in three consecutive NCAA Tournament’s in the first three campaigns. For his efforts, Lausier was named the Centennial Conference Rookie Coach of the Year. Under Lausier, the Ducks boasted a Centennial Conference Wrestler of the Year, a pair of Scholar All-Americans, and reached as high as seventh in the NWCA All-Academic team rankings.
A 2001 graduate of Lycoming College, Lausier was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. Lausier was a three-time NCAA qualifier and earned All-America status in 2000 at 197-pounds.
THE LAUSIER FILE
Education: B.A. – Lycoming College, 2001; M.A. Education – The College of New Jersey, 2003.
LAUSIER YEAR-BY-YEAR
2017-pr.: Davidson (Head Coach)
2012-17: Sacred Heart (Head Coach)
2007-11: Princeton (Head Assistant Coach)
2003-07: Stevens Institute of Technology (Head Coach)
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