Head Coach Pat Kennedy 
(513) 244-4427 Pat_Kennedy@mail.msj.edu
Pat Kennedy begins his first season as the Lions’ head coach, after being an assistant last season for the men’s team. Kennedy, who was hired in July 2006, is also the head coach for Mount’s women's team, which will begin play in the spring of 2009.
Coach Kennedy came to the Mount with a wealth of lacrosse coaching and playing experience. A 2001 graduate of Division I Syracuse University, Kennedy was an attackman for the Orangemen. He competed in the lacrosse NCAA championships from 1998-2001 and was a member of the Syracuse national championship team in 2000. He graduated from Syracuse with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
In high school, Kennedy was a 1997 graduate of Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was selected a lacrosse All-American in 1997, First-Team All-Ohio and All-Midwest selection from 1995-1997. He also holds the career scoring mark at Moeller. After college, Kennedy competed in post collegiate club lacrosse action where he was named the Midwest Cities Lacrosse Conference Player of the Year in 2003 playing for a team in Chicago. He was drafted in 2006 and played for the Chicago Machine of the Major League Lacrosse professional team.
Kennedy coached high school lacrosse locally in Cincinnati for a year and one year in Boston. He was the varsity assistant coach for Moeller High School in 2006, helping his team to be the top-rated team in Cincinnati, and directing the team to the state final four. Pat was also the head varsity coach for Summit Country Day High School in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2004-2005 where his team finished second in the Ohio High School South 2A Division. Pat was also the assistant coach for Catholic Memorial High School in Boston, Massachusetts, from 2003-2004.
Coach Kennedy resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Assistant Coach Jeff Bumiller
Jeff Bumiller joins the Lions’ coaching staff for his first season. He comes to the Mount from Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was the varsity head lacrosse coach in 2007. Before that, Bumiller was at Moeller High School as a varsity assistant lacrosse coach (2006). He has also been an assistant coach at Indian Hill High School and head coach at St. Xavier High School.
Bumiller has been a member of the Cincinnati Men’s Lacrosse Team in the Midwest Cities Lacrosse Club League since 2000. He is a 1998 graduate of the College of Wooster where he was a three-year starter, four-year player and senior captain. Bumiller has a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of Wooster. The graduate of Moeller High School was a three-year varsity starter helping his team to the 1992-1993 state championships. Bumiller was an All-State Selection in 1993-1994, and was voted 2001 Ohio High School Lacrosse Association Coach of the Year.
The Lions’ first-year coach is employed as a store manager by Laxland Sporting Goods in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Coach Bumiller resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.