Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 11/14/17
From Press Release
Conestoga Boys Lacrosse is pleased to announce the addition of former Pioneers and Loyola great PT Ricci as a Volunteer Assistant Coach. Coach Ricci will be working with the faceoff and wing midfielders and also serving as goalie coach.
After graduating from Conestoga, Coach Ricci continued his playing career at Loyola University, where he was an All-American and the ECAC Player of the Year. Coach Ricci has been on two MLL Championship teams and has been an MLL All-Star, and he was drafted by the Philadelphia Wings in the 2009 NLL draft. He has coaching experience at Malvern Prep, Towson University, Loyola University, Haverford College and most recently at Division III powerhouse Cabrini College.
Coach Ricci was a four-year letter winner for Loyola from 2006-2009 and earned United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-America honors as a senior long-stick midfielder. While at Loyola, Ricci set the program’s all-time caused turnovers record with 117. He was the 2009 ECAC Defensive Player of the Year in a season that he caused a school-record 51 turnovers. He also recorded 207 ground balls as a collegian, 10th on Loyola’s career charts.
Ricci is director of high school boys’ club teams for NXT.
Coach Ricci graduated from Loyola in 2009 with a bachelor of arts in communications.