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Chris Perzinski

 
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Chris Perzinski enters his second season as Defensive Coordinator for the Dolphins in 2022.

In 2022, the Dolphins had a "year of firsts", which included the first season with multiple ranked wins in program history, first national ranking, first 10-win season, and first SoCon regular season championship. On the defensive side, the Dolphins finished in the top-3 nationally in scoring defense, scoring margin, and caused turnovers per game.

Perzinski joined the Jacksonville staff last season after a successful four-year stint as the head coach at Division III Elizabethtown College.

Perzinski was in his fourth season as the head men's lacrosse coach at Elizabethtown in 2020, having already led the Blue Jays to three straight Landmark Conference championships and the program's first ever NCAA tournament victory in 2018.

In 2019, Perzinski scheduled half of his program's non-conference games against teams ranked in the top-20 in Divison III. After earning the top seed for the Landmark Tournament, the Blue Jays outscored their opponents, 29-12, to claim a third consecutive league championship.

Perzinski guided the Blue Jays through crunch time during their NCAA Division III Championship First Round game against John Carroll at Gettysburg in 2018. E-town held JCU to a single goal in the second half and scored all three fourth-quarter goals to capture a 9-6 victory, the team's first in the national tournament. Elizabethtown would fall in the Second Round to host Gettysburg, which advanced to the Final Four.

An 11-7 late regular season victory over 18th-ranked Washington & Lee at the US Lacrosse Headquarters propelled Elizabethtown into the postseason. Coming off an unbeaten regular season in league play, E-town went on to win a conference title for the first time in program history. The Blue Jays received their first NCAA tournament berth and came within a quarter of upsetting 10th-ranked Franklin & Marshall in the Second Round, dropping an 11-8 decision to end the season 14-4.

Perzinski was named 2018 Landmark Conference Coach of the Year and has mentored eight All-Americans in his short time with the College. 2020 saw a program-record three All-Americans, as goalie Tom Mahoney garnered the accolade for the second time in his career while Mike Scrafano and Alec Leslie received the honor for the first time in their careers. Defenseman Jeremy Klipple '19, the 2018 Landmark Player of the Year, was a two-time USILA All-America Honorable Mention pick, while Joe Clark and Mike Specht were All-America Honorable Mention selections in 2017.