In his first two years as lacrosse coach at Christopher Newport, Kwame Lloyd has built the young Lady Captain program to a very respectable level. Now in just its third year, Christopher Newport has played in all three Dixie Conference championship games, and in 2003 reached the .500 level playing its toughest schedule including several ranked opponents

Lloyd, who is also CNU’s women’s soccer coach, got his start in lacrosse as assistant to former Lady Captain coach Nancy Billger for two years at his alma mater, Susquehanna University. While there, the team broke almost all of the school’s records including scoring and goals allowed.

He then moved to the west coach at Whittier College where he led the Poets to several strong years including a 23-1 season in which they won the Western Women’s Lacrosse League championship. The league is a combination of varsity and club teams and held its Final Four at Stanford University where Whittier won the title defeating the University of San Diego. He then guided the team to its first winning record against an all-varsity schedule.

Lloyd was the first male coach to be featured at the University of Virginia Fast Break Lacrosse Camp, in the summer of 2000.

He never played lacrosse, concentrating on soccer, and he feels that is a benefit. With men’s and women’s lacrosse being vastly different games he doesn’t have the bad habits most male coaches bring to women’s lacrosse.

"I feel that I am in the right place at the right time," says Lloyd, who feels that CNU can field a nationally-recognized program in three to four years.