Georgetown University

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McDonough Arena Washington, DC 20057

Division 1 Dist of Columbia Northeast

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Ricky Fried

Ricky Fried is now in his 20th season at the helm of the Hoya program after serving as a Georgetown assistant coach in 2003 and 2004.

In his 19 seasons, Fried has led the Hoyas to a 189-145 overall record and an 90-29 record in BIG EAST regular season games. During the 2014 season, he became the winningest coach in program history following a 13-6 win over Temple on April 19.

Under Fried, Georgetown has earned seven BIG EAST regular season titles, made seven trips to the BIG EAST Championship Game, winning in 2010 and 2019, and has advanced to the NCAA Tournament nine times, reaching the quarterfinals twice.

Fried has coached 23 All-Americans as well as the National Goalie of the Year, two BIG EAST Attackers of the Year, four Midfielders of the Year and five Defensive Players of the Year to go along with 103 All-BIG EAST first and second team selections. Additionally, he and his staff have won BIG EAST Staff of the Year on two occasions.

During the 2022 season the Hoyas finished with a record of 9-9 and 3-2 in BIG EAST Conference play. The team defeated Marquette 17-13 in the BIG EAST Semifinals before falling to Denver in overtime 16-15. The team boasted eight All-BIG EAST honorees. Additionally, LizaBanks Campagna was named IWLCA Second Team All-South Region.

In 2019, Georgetown finished 12-9 earning the program’s 16th NCAA Tournament berth by winning GU’s second BIG EAST Championship in an exciting 9-8 double overtime thriller against top-seeded Denver. It was the Blue & Gray’s 13th-consecutive trip to the BIG EAST postseason. In the NCAA Tournament, GU downed Penn 13-12 in double overtime before falling to Syracuse in the second round. Georgetown had nine All-BIG EAST honorees as well as three Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coach’s Association (IWLCA) All-South Region honorees and one All-American in midfielder Francesca Whitehurst.

Prior to Georgetown, Fried was an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins University for nine seasons. While at the school, Fried served as the recruiting coordinator and helped build Hopkins in to a Division I Top 20 program after aiding in the transition from a strong D-III program.

A 1988 graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Fried was an All-America midfielder for the Retrievers lacrosse team. As a senior, he served as team captain, was named the team’s Most Valuable Player and earned the team’s Leadership Award. He was named to UMBC’s All-Time Team in 1990.

Fried arrived at Hopkins following a two-year stint as an assistant coach at the Gilman School and serving a season as an assistant at his alma mater. He also played professionally with the Philadelphia Wings from 1989- 92 and 1997 and the Baltimore Thunder from 1993-94.

Fried is also active in the IWLCA and is the organization’s vice president, on the board of directors and on a tournament working group after previously serving on the ethics committee. Currently, he is the chair of the Regional All-American Committee and is a member of the Tewaaraton Trophy Committee. Recently, he won the Diane Geppi-Aikens Memorial Award recognizing lifetime achievement to the game of women’s lacrosse.

After serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. Women’s Lacrosse Elite Team for three years, Fried was named the head coach of the national team in August 2009. He held the position until fall 2017.

After leading Team USA to an undefeated gold medal in 2013 at the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Cup in Oshawa, Ontario, his position was renewed through 2017. It marked his second World Cup gold after winning in the summer of 2009 as an assistant in Prague, Czech Republic. He won his final two gold medals in the summer of 2017 at the FIL World Cup in Guildford, England and the X World Games in Wroclaw, Poland.

Fried also served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Fire of the WPLL for two seasons.

He, his wife Halyna, and their children, Jack (18) and Paige (16), reside in Columbia, Maryland.

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Julie Morse

Julie Morse is in her third season with the Hoyas. She came to Georgetown from Campbell where she was the defensive coach for two seasons.

During her first season with the Hoyas in 2022, GU finished with a record of 9-9 and 3-2 in BIG EAST Conference play. The team defeated Marquette 17-13 in the BIG EAST Semifinals before falling to Denver in overtime 16-15. The team boasted eight All-BIG EAST honorees. Additionally, LizaBanks Campagna was named IWLCA Second Team All-South Region.

At Campbell, the Camels went 8-7 with an impressive mark of 5-1 in the Big South Conference. The team boasted a four-game win streak to close out the regular season. The Camels had a record seven players on the All-Big South team including a pair of defenders. In a shortened 2020 season, Morse’s first in Buies Creek, the Camels went 2-7 before the season was called due to COVID-19.

Prior to Campbell, Morse spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Washington College where she helped the Shorewomen to top 25 IWLCA poll rankings in each of her final two seasons, including No. 24 in the final poll of 2019, going 12-6 overall and 7-2 in Centennial Conference play. Five Shorewomen were named All-Centennial Conference in 2019, while two claimed all-region nods.

Prior to Washington, Morse played at Loyola, helping the Greyhounds to three conference titles, reaching the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Tournament two times and advancing to the second round twice in her career. Loyola won the BIG EAST championship in 2012 and consecutive Patriot League championships in 2014 and 2015. As a senior, she helped the team rank No. 10 nationally in the final IWLCA Division I poll, and was a part of the 15th-best scoring defense in the nation.

An Easton, Maryland native, Morse graduated from Loyola in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in speech-language pathology, and has also coached at the prep and club ranks, with stops at Saint Peter and Paul High School, Bay Area Lacrosse Club and Maximum Exposure Lacrosse Camp. She was also a coach and leadership counselor at the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy.

Morse is currently working on a master’s in sports leadership from VCU which she will complete in 2022. She resides in the District of Columbia.

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Maria Auth

Maria Auth joined the Georgetown University women's lacrosse staff as an assistant coach in September, 2023.

Auth comes to the Hilltop from Boston University where she was the offensive coordinator during the 2022 and 2023 seasons.

Prior to her two seasons coaching at BU, Auth had a stellar five-year playing career at Penn State. Auth finished her career with 226 points, which was seventh all-time in program history, and additionally finishing sixth in career goals (160) and 11th in career assists (66).

The Maryland native led the Nittany Lions in goals (34) and points (46) in 2021 and was named to both the All-Big Ten Second Team and IWLCA All-Region West/Midwest Second Team. As a junior in 2019, she garnered All-Big Ten First Team honors after leading the team in points (46) and produced 11 multi-point efforts.

Additionally, she gained experience coaching at Finish Line Lacrosse as well as NEMS Lacrosse, Inc.

Auth earned her B.S. in biobehavioral health from Penn State in 2020 and completed her Master's in clinical rehabilitation & mental health counseling in 2022.