Brendan Kearney enters his fourth season as the defensive coordinator for the Lewis University men's lacrosse team.
With Kearney on the sideline, the Flyers have had some of the best defensive units in the midwest and across the country. During the 2025 campaign, Lewis was ranked a top-10 defense in the nation and the third-best clearing team across the country.
The 2024 season was a landmark year for the defense under Kearney as the Flyers were once again ranked as a top-10 defense and led the nation in clears. Lewis also captured their first GLVC Tournament Championship and advanced all the way to the Elite Eight.
In his first season back with Lewis, Kearney led the Flyers to a top-10 defensive ranking and an appearance in the GLVC Championship game during the 2023 campaign.
Since 2023, he has also mentored a handfull of All-Americans in Riah Rathe (2023/2024) and Tyler Davis (2024/2025) as well.
Kearney was in charge of all operations for the Marquette Lacrosse program during the 2021-22 season as the director of lacrosse operations. During his one season at Marquette, the program made their first Big East Tournament appearance since 2018. The 2022 Marquette Defense finished 12th in Division 1 in man-down defense at 71% and also finished Top 30 in Caused Turnovers per game with 7.8 per game. Kearney mentored 2022 USILA All-American, Mason Woodward.
Prior to Marquette University, Kearney served as a defensive assistant at Lewis University from 2018 to 2021, helping build the program through its inaugural year. In 2020, a seven game Shortened Covid season, Kearney led the Flyer Defense to a # 1 Man-down defensive ranking and assisted the Lewis Defense to Top 25 in Goals against average, at 10.5 per game, in NCAA Division II. Kearney mentored freshman Goalie Josh Calvin to the #5 Save percentage, 62% in Division II.
Prior to Lewis, Kearney was co-captain of the club lacrosse team at Holy Cross College and was eventually named coach in 2015. In that role, the Glen Ellyn, Illinois, native was responsible for funding, scheduling, planning practices and game leadership.
The former goalie also served as director of 1223 Lacrosse Club from 2019 to 2020, where he organized club lacrosse activities for high school lacrosse players and helped them with the college recruitment process. Kearney then served as a coach for True Lacrosse, implementing strategies to improve goalie training.
