Field Hockey

Lewis Notches 200th Win

Posted: Oct 19, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – With a 3-0 victory over conference-rival Lasell University on October 2nd, SJC Field Hockey Head Coach Rupert Lewis hit the 200 career-win plateau.

Now in his 17th season at the helm for the Monks, Coach Lewis owns a 203-95 (.681) career record. Lewis is just the seventh Saint Joseph's skipper to notch 200 victories and his .678 win rate ranks sixth (among coaches who served at least three years) in the 51-year history of SJC Athletics.

Lewis is one of just 13 active NCAA DIII Field Hockey coaches in New England to reach the 200-win plateau and, among this select group, ranks fifth in winning percentage. He currently ranks 25th in NCAA all-time winning percentage (all three divisions) and 22nd among active NCAA DIII clipboard carriers.

By far the winningest and most successful in the program's 27-year history, Coach Lewis has orchestrated 10 or more wins in a season on 13 occasions with a program-best 19 victories in 2018. He guided the Royal Blue to a team-record 12-game winning streak in 2018 and has endured just two losing seasons since arriving on campus in the fall of 2004.

Coach Lewis has steered the Monks to four-consecutive GNAC Championships (2016-19) and subsequent NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2016, his team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time and posted a thrilling 1-0 victory over Montclair State - ranked 10th nationally at the time - in the first round before falling to Skidmore College in a Sweet 16 contest several days later.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.