Hall of Fame
One of the finest defensemen to play for the Tigers, Ed Stephenson '94 was inducted into the Towson Hall of Fame in 2001.
He was a four-year starter for Coach Carl Runk. A two-time selection as first team All-East Coast Conference (ECC), he was named third team All-America as a senior in 1989.
In 1989, he was co-captain for the first Towson lacrosse team to earn a berth in the NCAA Division I playoffs. The 1989 Tigers beat then-No. 1 Johns Hopkins in double overtime in the regular season finale to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament where they lost to North Carolina. The 9-8 victory over Hopkins marked the first time that Towson had beaten the Blue Jays in 14 meetings between the schools.
In his four years at Towson, he helped the Tigers post a 35-19 record and win one ECC championship. Selected to play in the North-South all-star game as a senior in 1989, Stephenson set a then-school record with 86 ground balls in 1989.
A native of Timonium, Md., who graduated from Dulaney High School, he was honored as a high school All-American. The winner of Towson’s Senior Male Athlete of the Year award in 1989, he graduated with his degree in physical education.
Upon graduating Towson, he embarked on a very successful playing and coaching career. He played professionally for the Pittsburgh Bulls of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) from 1990 to 1992 and was named to the MILL all-star team once. He also played for the Mount Washington club lacrosse team for four years and was a member of its national championship teams in 1991 and 1992.
He began his coaching career in 1990 as the freshman/sophomore coach at the Gilman School. He spent three seasons at Gilman, serving as the junior varsity head coach as well as an assistant coach for the Greyhounds’ varsity team.
In 1993, he returned to Towson as an assistant coach on Runk’s staff. He spent three seasons as the Tigers’ defensive coordinator, helping Towson earn NCAA Tournament bids in 1993 and 1994.
In 1996, he was named as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). A member of the physical education faculty at UMBC for four years, he helped Coach Don Zimmerman and UMBC earned back-to-back bids to the NCAA Tournament in 1997 and 1998. The Retrievers’ NCAA Tournament berth in 1997 was their first NCAA bid at the Division I level.
After five years at UMBC, he moved on to Hobart College where he spent one year as an assistant coach. In August 2001, Stephenson was named as the first coach of Binghamton University’s Division I lacrosse program. He wa the coordinator for both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, which started intercollegiate competition that spring. He coached the men's team until the end of the 2010 season, finishing his tenure with a 41-80 overall mark.
