Patrick Tuohy enters his second season at Holy Cross for the 2024 season as an assistant coach after three years at Stevens Institute of Technology under head coach Gene Peluso. As the defensive coordinator, Tuohy led the Ducks to back-to-back MAC Freedom Championships following an abbreviated 2020 season.
In 2021, the undefeated MAC Freedom Conference Champions advanced to the Sweet 16 where they fell to No. 4 Lynchburg in the second round of the 2021 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship. During his time at Stevens, the team earned two conference titles and produced eight players with USILA All-American honors including First Team honoree Shawn Coulter, who was named the 2021 Short-Stick Defensive Midfielder of the Year, the first player in program history to earn a positional Player of the Year award.
Prior to coaching at Castle Point, Tuohy logged a 13-year stint at his high school alma mater, Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey.
Tuohy was involved with, and ultimately oversaw, all aspects of the lacrosse program when he was named the Head Coach Boys Varsity Lacrosse in 2013. The following year Tuohy led the Westfield Blue Devils to the Group IV state title (2014), the first for the program since 1987, and was recognized as the Courier News Boys Lacrosse Coach of the Year.
Tuohy spent the previous four years as the Boys Varsity Assistant Coach at Westfield. Tuohy was named the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Boys Lacrosse Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010, while also earning the Fitch-Pitch Division Boys Lacrosse Assistant Coach of the Year accolade in the same year from NJ.com.
Tuohy originally began coaching at Westfield as a volunteer, in between tours of duty in Iraq, where he supported Operation Iraqi Freedom I and II. He joined the United States Marine Corps in April 2002 and served as a Platoon Sergeant from 2005-08, before reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant at the end of his stint. Tuohy received Honor Graduate accolades during recruiting training and Combat Engineer School and was honored for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service with the Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Action Ribbon following missions in the Al Anbar Province.
Tuohy graduated from Roanoke College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 2006. He spent two seasons on the field for the Maroons before joining the Marine Corps, which cut short his plan to play college lacrosse.
Tuohy played for the Westfield High School Blue Devils between 1997 and 2000. Tuohy and his wife Vanessa have a daughter, Emerson and a son Patrick.
