McGill University Athletics

A native of Princeton, N.J., and a long-time resident of Montreal, Tim Murdoch volunteered for 17 seasons as the head coach of McGill men’s varsity lacrosse team from 2003 to 2019. He completed his final season behind the McGill bench in 2019 to finish with a career record of 191-88-2 in 281 contests overall for a winning percentage of .684.  He guided the program to nine CUFLA East pennants (2007, 2011-2017, 2019), four undefeated regular seasons (2013-2015, 2019) and two national championships, claiming the league's Baggataway Cup in 2012 and 2015.
 
In 2018, Murdoch received the Honora Shaughnessy Ambassador Award, presented to a friend of McGill who has made an exceptional contribution to the University as a role model in fostering friend-raising, loyalty, professionalism and team spirit. Murdoch played a leadership role in establishing the Canadian Lacrosse Foundation McGill Indigenous Lacrosse Scholarship for student-athletes. In 2019, the “Tim Murdoch Fund” was established to memorialize Murdoch’s coaching career at McGill.

Murdoch has contributed much to the growth of the game in the city. He founded the Westmount Lynx youth field lacrosse program with the city of Westmount in 2006,  served as head coach of the Quebec under-19 squad at the 2013 national championship for the First Nations Trophy, and sat on the advisory board of Canada’s 150th Celebration of Lacrosse at McGill (June 2017).  In 2007, he and his McGill assistants were voted CUFLA coaching staff of the year.  Under Murdoch's guidance, the team has received the Harry Griffiths Trophy four times (2008, 2009, 2012, 2015) as the most outstanding sports club at McGill.
 
Murdoch earned a liberal arts degree in history from Princeton (A.B., '84), an MBA from Harvard in 1990 and a certificate in Sports Industry Essentials from Columbia University's school of professional studies in 2019. He played varsity lacrosse at Princeton (1981-84), where he was awarded the Howard Trophy as the team's most improved player.  At Harvard, he was elected co-captain and player-coach of the business school's lacrosse club. Murdoch discovered lacrosse as a youth in Baltimore, MD.  A two-time, all-state high-school athlete in football and lacrosse in New Jersey, he was inducted into the Princeton Day School Athletic Hall of Fame (2000) at his high school, where he earned a record 12 varsity letters.
 
Murdoch is dual U.S. and naturalized Canadian citizen who resides in Westmount, Que., with his wife, Pascale Lemaire (McGill, BSc. Psychology ‘87), daughter Liliane (McGill, Arts, 2023) and son Maxime (McGill, Arts, 2020), a co-captain and a member of McGill's 2015 national championship team. All of them studied at McGill.
 
(UPDATED:  June 3, 2020)

McGill Redmen Lacrosse YEAR-BY-YEAR Record
 

	HEAD COACH	OVERALL RECORD				REG SEASON		PLAYOFFS		NON-CONFERENCE			DIVISION
		GP	W	L	T	W	L	W	L	W	L	T	STANDING
2001	Sachin Anand	7	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	(EXH)
2002	Sachin Anand	11	3	8	0	0	8	0	0	3	0	0	5/5
2003	Tim Murdoch	10	3	7	0	2	5	0	1	1	0	0	3/4
2004*	Tim Murdoch	11	2	8	1	1	7	0	1	1	0	1	5/5
2005	Tim Murdoch	19	11	8	0	3	6	0	0	8	2	0	7/10
2006	Tim Murdoch	22	13	9	0	3	6	0	0	10	3	0	7/10
2007	Tim Murdoch	19	14	5	0	7	2	1	1	6	2	0	1/4
2008	Tim Murdoch	18	12	6	0	7	3	2	1	3	2	0	2/6
2009	Tim Murdoch	18	12	6	0	8	4	1	1	3	1	0	2/6
2010	Tim Murdoch	21	10	11	0	5	5	0	1	6	5	0	3/6
2011	Tim Murdoch	16	13	3	0	9	1	0	1	4	1	0	1/6
2012	Tim Murdoch	19	12	6	1	9	1	3	0	1	1	1	1/6
2013	Tim Murdoch	16	14	2	0	10	0	1	1	2	1	0	1/6
2014	Tim Murdoch	17	15	2	0	12	0	2	1	0	2	0	1/6
2015	Tim Murdoch	17	15	2	0	12	0	3	0	1	1	0	1/6
2016	Tim Murdoch	15	11	4	0	11	1	0	1	0	1	0	2/6
2017	Tim Murdoch	15	12	3	0	11	1	1	1	0	1	0	1/7
2018	Tim Murdoch	16	12	4	0	9	1	2	1	1	2	0	2/6
2019	Tim Murdoch	12	10	2	0	10	0	0	1	0	1	0	1/6
	S. Anand TOTALS:	18	4	14	0	0	8	0	0	4	6	0
	T. Murdoch TOT:	281	191	88	2	129	43	16	13	47	26	2
	McGill TOTALS:	299	195	102	2	129	51	16	13	51	32	2