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Wittenberg Record: 12-13 (2006-present)
Career Record: 29-34 (1993-95; 2006-present)

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After three years as the first assistant men's lacrosse coach at Harvard University, George Harris was selected as Wittenberg University's new men's lacrosse head coach in July 2005.

In his first season in Springfield, Harris led the Tigers to a 6-7 overall record, the team's highest win total in seven years. Four players earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors after the season, including a pair of first-team honorees, Wittenberg's most in nearly a decade. He followed that with a 6-6 mark in 2007, the first time the Tigers have reached the .500 mark since 2000.

Harris brought an impressive resume to Springfield, first as a student-athlete and later as a coach. A 1989 graduate of Ithaca College, Harris was a four-year starter for the perennial powerhouse Bombers, and he served as team captain his final two intercollegiate seasons. He returned to his alma mater in 1992 and served as a graduate assistant coach for the Ithaca women's lacrosse team the following spring, helping the Bombers to a No. 5 national ranking and a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament quarterfinals.

That experience earned Harris the men's head coaching position at Skidmore College. After three seasons leading Skidmore, he took his 16-20 record leading the Thoroughbreds to the Division I ranks as an assistant at Colgate University in 1996. Harris helped the Raiders to two East Coast Athletic Conference championship game appearances and the 1997 title while serving as the teams offensive coordinator and goalkeepers coach from 1996-2001. He then moved on to Cornell University for the 2002 season, helping the Big Red to an NCAA tournament appearance and a No. 6 national ranking as the teams second assistant coach.

In his three seasons at Harvard as the first assistant, the Crimson posted a 17-24 overall record in the extremely competitive Ivy League. Harris served as the team's offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, and he was recognized for his outstanding work with the 2004 Harvard University Department of Athletics Merit Award, which is given to one assistant coach among the university's 37 varsity teams each year in recognition of professional commitment, dedication and overall program advancement.

Harris has a bachelor's degree in business management in 1989 and a master's degree in physical education from Ithaca in 1993.

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Norm Riker joined the Wittenberg men's lacrosse program as an assistant coach in 2003 after a year working as an assistant in the women's lacrosse program. He helped the Tiger women's lacrosse team to an 8-6 record in his only year with that program, including a 5-2 mark in the NCAC, which was good for third place.

Riker came to Wittenberg in March 2002 to take over the Tiger women's soccer program. He has led the Tigers to a 39-31-6 overall record in four seasons at the helm. The Tigers' win total has increased in each of his four seasons on the sidelines.

Prior to his arrival at Wittenberg, Riker was the interim head coach of the women's soccer team at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for the 2000 season, and he also served as the men's lacrosse assistant coach. During the 2000 season, Riker led Vassar to its second Northeast Regional ECAC Championship. He served as an assistant in both programs from 1994 to 1999 and again in 2002, and he also served as the building manager of Walker Fieldhouse on the Vassar campus.

A native of Block Island, R.I., Riker was a four-year lacrosse letterwinner at Springfield College (Mass.). He was a captain of the lacrosse team as a senior and he was selected to participate in a pair of senior all-star games. He holds a bachelor of arts in history from Springfield, attained in 1992, and he has since attained a master of professional studies in humanistic education from the State University of New York, New Paltz.

Riker lives in Springfield with his wife Gabrielle and their children Isabelle and Sofia.

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