This season we will have an extremely competitive schedule and it will take effort to achieve success, but our guys are ready for it. With this in mind, we now need our support to help us with the experience we deserve. The money from our $25,000 goal will go toward travel expenses which will give us the ability to schedule more out-of-state games by flying, have shorter trips broken up by overnight stays and enhanced meals on the road and prior to home games along with replacing equipment. All of these things are necessary to remain competitive with the teams we are up against.

The Titans are going into their 12th season, and their 12th with Coach Chris Kolon on the sidelines, his and sixth as a head coach.

During his time with Detroit Mercy, Coach Kolon has overseen all aspects of the Titans defense and served as the team's recruiting coordinator, while helping establish the program as one of the best in the MAAC registering Detroit Mercy's first three winning seasons and leading the team to a school record in overall and conference victories. His teams have also always been at the top of the MAAC in academic accolades in both Academic All-League selections and honor roll recipients.

He has also tutored five players who have been drafted in the MLL and NLL and 10 who have played in both professional lacrosse leagues. In 2019, he was named an assistant coach with the Atlas Lacrosse Club in the new Premier Lacrosse League.

In his five years as a head coach, Detroit Mercy has made the MAAC Championships four times, reaching the title game in 2018, and posted the first three winning seasons in school history, setting a school record for victories twice. His first win was a memorable one as Detroit Mercy upended Ohio State, 9-8, on March 7, 2015. The win was the first by the Titans over Ohio State, which was receiving votes in both the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and the USILA Coaches Poll and would go on to play in the NCAA Tournament later that season.

In 2019, the Titans recorded their second-straight winning campaign at 8-7 and tied their MAAC wins mark at 5-2. One of their triumphs was a come-from-behind win at eventual MAAC champions Marist. The year also saw senior Matthew Vangalen break the school record for points in a season for the second year in a row; he was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Year, the first Titan to ever receive that honor. Sophomore Logan Shamblin was named the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year the second Titan to earn that honor while sophomore Paul Manuszak became the second Titan to win the conference's LSM of the Year.

Academically, the Titans had 19 Titan student-athletes who made the grade for the MAAC All-Academic Team, the eighth-straight year that the Titans either led or tied for the most in the MAAC. In addition, Vangalen became the first men's lacrosse player in school history to earn Google Cloud Academic All-District 5 For Men's At-Large sports as he was one of only five men's lacrosse student-athletes selected over the eight districts in Division I.

Your gift will help the Detroit Mercy mens lacrosse stay a competitive program, and will benefit the student-athletes as they reach their goals on the floor, in the classrooms, and in the community.

Thank you for your support of Detroit Mercy mens lacrosse! Go Titans!

International residents can make an online gift by going to https://community.udmercy.edu/donate, selecting Other and typing in the crowdfunding project.