Marist College

Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

New York Northeast

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Keith Detelj

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Keith Detelj was hired as Marist head women's lacrosse coach on July 27, 2023.

Detelj (pronounced Duh-TELL), a 2007 Marist graduate, returns to the Poughkeepsie campus with over a decade of coaching experience in women’s lacrosse. Most recently, he served as assistant coach for the Kennesaw State women’s lacrosse program for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, where his responsibilities included goalie development and working with the Owls’ offense. Kennesaw State set program records for wins and goals scored in 2022 and had an Honorable Mention All-American each of the last two years.

Detelj served as head coach at SUNY New Paltz for five seasons from 2017-21. He guided the Hawks to their first winning conference record in program history in 2021. That year, New Paltz ranked in the nation’s top 30 in free position shooting percentage, draw controls per game, and caused turnovers. From 2019-21, he was a member of the NCAA Division III Regional Ranking Committee.

Detelj was the women’s lacrosse assistant coach at Nassau Community College in the 2013-14 seasons, and became head coach in 2015. That season, he guided the program to an NJCAA Division III Final Four appearance and was named District Coach of the Year. He was also the head women’s soccer coach at Nassau from 2012-14. In the 2014 season, Nassau reached the NJCAA Division III Elite Eight and had two All-Americans as Detelj was named Regional and District Coach of the Year.

Professionally, Detelj played for the Dayton Dutch Lions of the United Soccer League (USL) from 2014-15. He played in the USL Premier Development League from 2009-14.

Detelj is one of the finest dual-sport athletes in Marist history. His decorated career included winning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships in both men’s soccer and men’s lacrosse as a student-athlete, and he earned the Most Valuable Player award in conference tournaments for both sports.

Detelj was a four-time First Team All-MAAC selection, as he earned the distinction twice in both soccer and lacrosse. He holds Marist men’s soccer’s Division I program records for career goals and points, and he was named the Red Foxes’ Male Co-Sportsperson of the Year in 2007. He was named to the MAAC 35th Anniversary First Team, the MAAC 40th Anniversary Men’s Soccer Team, and was Honorable Mention for the MAAC 40th Anniversary Men’s Lacrosse Team.

He also served as an assistant coach for the Red Foxes’ men’s soccer program in the 2016 season. The Red Foxes went 11-7-1 overall, qualified for the MAAC Men’s Soccer Championship, and had the nation’s second-leading scorer in Cameron Harr.

Detelj graduated from Marist with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. He was inducted into the Connetquot High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

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Keegan Wilkinson

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Since taking over the position on June 28, 2011, Marist Men’s Lacrosse Head Coach Keegan Wilkinson, has brought program to new heights. A three-time MAAC Coach of the Year recipient, Wilkinson has led the Red Foxes to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship game four years in a row, has had seven of United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Scholar All-Americans and eight participants in the North-South All-Star Game in that same period.

An assistant coach on the Marist staff for four seasons, Wilkinson became the fastest head coach in MAAC history to reach 50 career wins when the Red Foxes took down Holy Cross, 8-5, on March 25, 2017 in Tenney Stadium. He achieved the feat in his 86th game on the sidelines for Marist. He led the North Squad to a 17-13 victory as a head coach in the 2016 USILA North-South All-Star Game.

Became the fastest head coach in MAAC history to reach 50 career wins when the Red Foxes took down Holy Cross, 8-5, on March 25, 2017. Achieved the feat in his 86th game.

Led Marist to its winningest season in 2015, going 14-4 and an unbeaten 6-0 in MAAC play. The 11 regular season victories tied a single-season program record.

Earned program’s first ever national ranking in 2015, as they came in at no. 20 in the USILA Coaches’ Poll and tied for 19th in the Cascade/Maverik Media Poll.

Guided Marist to its second ever NCAA Tournament appearance as his team hosted the first postseason event on the college’s campus.

Led Marist to its first ever NCAA Tournament win in 2015, helping it take down Bryant, 10-6, in a preliminary round game in front of a record lacrosse crowd of 1,873 in Tenney Stadium.

Hosted UMBC in a NCAA preliminary round in 2019 and rebroke the attendance record for an openning round game with 2,134 fans

2015 USILA Coach of the Year Finalist.