Following 12 seasons as the head coach of Hobart lacrosse, Greg Raymond joined the HWS Athletics administrative team in 2025, serving as the director of external relations and special projects.
As director of external relations and special projects, Raymond provides strategic, administrative, and logistical support to the director of athletics and deputy director of athletics. He focuses on cultivating and strengthening external relations, including NIL efforts and the Corporate Alliance Program, enhancing leadership programs for student-athletes and staff, serving as a liaison with career services, and collaborating on athletic fundraising initiatives.
Raymond's coaching tenure saw him accumulate more wins than any head coach in the Division I history of Hobart lacrosse. On the school’s overall wins list, Raymond only trails four Hobart legends, B.J. O’Hara ’76, Dave Urick, Jerry Schmidt and Babe Kraus. Raymond mentored 44 all-conference selections, including Frank Brown ’17 who was named the NEC Player of the Year and a USILA All-America honorable mention in 2017. His teams qualified for the conference championship tournament seven times, advanced to the championship game five times and won the 2016 Northeast Conference Tournament Championship.
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Raymond’s Statesmen have also excelled in the classroom. Hobart has been recognized with 192 conference all-academic honors and six USILA Scholar All-Americans.
Hobart has finished at or above .500 in seven of the past 11 seasons. His 2016 team that won the NEC Championship and played in the NCAA tournament, broke the program’s Division I era record for wins in a season, posting a 10-7 mark. Three years later, Raymond’s squad eclipsed that standard with an 11-5 campaign. In fact, from 1995 to 2025, Hobart has won nine or more games four times, three during Raymond’s tenure.
Raymond joined the Statesmen following four seasons as the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Princeton University. Raymond’s Tiger defenses ranked first or second in the Ivy League three times and twice led the conference in man-down defense. Princeton won the Ivy League and earned a spot in the NCAA tournament in 2010 and 2012. The Tigers' D achieved its highest national statistical ranking in 2012, climbing to No. 6 in scoring defense, allowing just 7.25 goals per game, and No. 2 in man-down defense, killing off 85 percent of the opposition's man-up opportunities. At Princeton, Raymond mentored nine All-Americans and nine All-Ivy League student-athletes.
Raymond spent the 2008-09 academic year serving as the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Drexel University. He helped the Dragons earn a spot in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament thanks in part to a 9-8 win over nationally-ranked Villanova.
Raymond got his start in collegiate coaching in 2006, serving as an assistant for legendary Head Coach Bill Tierney at Princeton. In 2006 and 2007, the Tigers earned NCAA tournament bids, reaching the quarterfinal round in 2006.
Raymond graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. On the lacrosse field, he was a long-stick midfielder for the Blue Jays, serving as a team captain in 2003, 2004, and 2005. After losing most of his first two years on campus to a knee injury, Raymond saw his first significant playing time in 2003, appearing in 12 games as Hopkins reached the NCAA national championship game. The following season, he played in all 15 games helping the Blue Jays advance to the NCAA semifinals. As a senior, Raymond and his classmates penned a perfect ending to their collegiate careers, posting a 16-0 record and winning the national championship. He played in every game that year, recording 28 ground balls and scoring his first goal. Following graduation, Raymond played three seasons for the MLL's New Jersey Pride.
A native of Corning, N.Y., Raymond is married to Michelle Steigerwald Raymond, a 2004 graduate of William Smith and a former Heron lacrosse player.
