Sidwell Friends

Jeremy Phelps brings a wealth of experience into his tenure at Sidwell Friends. The Charlotte, NC native brings with him experience working with two Top 15 ranked Division I programs and two Top 5 ranked Division II programs. Phelps has spent the last 15 years working with student athletes at all levels across the country.

During his time with Limestone University (S.C.), a Division II National Powerhouse, he guided the nation’s fourth ranked defense, allowing 8.57 goals per game, while the faceoff unit finished fifth in NCAA Division II with a .702 winning percentage during his first season with the Saints. Limestone held opponents to less than 10 goals in a game a total of 11 times during the 2019 campaign and spent 10 weeks ranked #1 nationally, while reaching the 2019 National Title Game with a perfect 20-0 record. Faceoff specialist Dakota Kirsch-Downs and Christopher Parrott both ranked in the top-10 nationally in winning percentage, while Jordan Stouros was named as the D2 National Long Stick Midfielder of the Year under Phelps’ tutelage.

He joined the Saints after helping guide UMass to a sweep of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) regular season and tournament championships during the 2018 season. The Minutemen finished with a 12-5 overall record before getting edged by Yale University, the eventual NCAA Division I National Champions, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He mentored one of the nation’s top faceoff specialists in Noah Rak, a 2018 First-Team All-CAA selection, while the faceoff unit finished in the top-15 nationally in winning percentage. Rak, who was taken by the Charlotte Hounds in the 2018 Major League Lacrosse Draft, ranked ninth in NCAA Division I with a .611 winning percentage and eighth overall with 8.06 groundballs per game.