Coaches

Brian Duncan

Coaching Experience
• Head Coach, Flagler College club team (2016-present)
• Offensive Coordinator, Florida Launch (2017-18)
• Assistant Coach/Offensive Coordinator, Florida Tech (2015)
• Head Coach, The Bolles School (2013-14)
• Head Coach, Jacksonville Bullies (2011-12)
• Assistant Coach/Defensive Coordinator, Jacksonville University (2009-11)
• Head Coach, Community College of Baltimore County at Essex (2004-09)
• Assistant Coach, CCBC Essex (1999-2003)

Education
• B.A., Economics, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Coaching at Flagler
Brian Duncan is the first head coach of the Flagler College men's lacrosse program. That was officially announced at a press conference on Sept. 16, 2019. The inaugural season of Flagler men's lacrosse will be in the spring of 2022.

Duncan has been with Flagler men's lacrosse since 2016 as its club head coach. 

Prior to Flagler
Duncan is deeply rooted in the First Coast having held various coaching positions since 2009. His first stop was as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at Jacksonville University from 2009-11. He helped the Dolphins program from its inception. Jacksonville won 11 games in its first two years, which included wins over two NCAA Division I tournament teams in the inaugural season (2010). In JU's first year as members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, the Dolphins advanced to the conference tournament semifinal. 

After Jacksonville, Duncan helped form the first professional team, the Jacksonville Bullies. He was the head coach of the team and was instrumental in an anti-bullying campaign called "Bullies against Bullying" in the fall of 2011. 

He had a short stint (2013-14) at the Bolles School where he coached one All-American and 20 all-district players. He sent several players on to NCAA Division I institutions, including Cornell University. His teams improved from 8-11 in his first season to 10-5 in year two.  

Duncan also served as an assistant coach/offensive coordinator at Florida Tech where the team was ranked No. 15 in the nation on offense (12.44 goals per game). Florida Tech was ranked as high as No. 12 in the USILA Coaches Poll and No. 10 in the Nike Poll with a 12-4 record. He helped seven players earn All-Sunshine State Conference honors and the 2015 team reached the conference championship game. 

He was the offensive coordinator of the Florida Launch, a professional lacrosse team in Boca Raton that was a member of the Major Lacrosse League. The Launch made the final four in 2017.

Duncan started his coaching career at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) at Essex. He coached the team to a national title in 2004 and was selected as the national coach of the year. He was a five-time Region XX Coach of the Year and won the regional title five times. Duncan was a four-time Maryland JUCO Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. He coached the Knights to five NJCAA final four appearances and three national championship games. He has coached three NJCAA National Players of the Year, 27 NJCAA first-team All-Americans, and 16 NJCAA second-team All-Americans.

Duncan graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore County where he was a midfielder on the lacrosse team from 1989-92. He was voted captain of the team as a junior and senior. During his time there, the Retrievers knocked off No. 2 Maryland (1991) and were ranked as high as No. 13 (1992). He scored 36 goals and tallied 19 assists in his career. He won 211 faceoffs. Duncan led the team in ground balls (91) as a senior. He was drafted to play professional indoor lacrosse for Pittsburgh (1993) and Baltimore (1994). He was a part of six American Lacrosse League Championships, five Ocean City Master's Championships, and one Vail Supermaster's Championship.

James Foote

James Foote comes to Flagler College to begin his 17th year coaching men’s lacrosse, serving as Assistant Coach & Offensive Coordinator for the Men’s Lacrosse program.

Foote joined the Flagler staff in 2020 as an assistant coach in the final year of the student club.

Prior to Flagler, Foote served on the staff at North Dakota State University (MCLA Div II) during a shortened 2020 season.

From 2017-19, Foote held the role of head varsity boys lacrosse coach at Dakota Ridge High School (Littleton, Colo.), compiling a 31-14 record, the most dominant run in the history of the program.

Before moving west to Colorado, Foote served as the head men’s lacrosse coach at his alma mater, the University of Central Florida (MCLA Div I), from 2013-2016. He is tied for the most victories as a head coach in program history at UCF with 30. Foote also holds the record for most Southeast Lacrosse Conference Tournament appearances with two.

From 2009-2012, Foote served under Brian Theiss as defensive coordinator at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida, his high school alma mater. The Patriots won four Seminole Athletic Conference titles, three FHSAA regional titles, and appeared in two FHSAA State Semifinals and one FHSAA State Championship Game in Foote’s four years on staff.

Concurrent with his time at Lake Brantley, Foote served as assistant coach (goalkeepers) for the Rollins College women’s lacrosse program from 2010-12, reaching the NCAA final four in 2011 under head coach Dennis Short.

Foote also served as a  volunteer assistant coach for the Rollins College men’s lacrosse program in 2010 under head coach RJ Rossi.

Foote majored in political science/pre-law at the University of Central Florida where he played collegiately for the Knights. As a prep, James was a three-time letter winner in lacrosse at Lake Brantley High.

James resides in St. Augustine with his partner, Johanna Trottier, their daughter, and two dogs.