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Niemi, a four-year letterwinner for the Maryland Lacrosse team
and a 1997 graduate, begins his fourth season at Yale as the
defensive coordinator. He was recently named the head coach of the
Finnish National Team for the 2008 European Championships. Each of
his Terrapin squads reached the NCAA playoffs and his 1995 team
fell to Syracuse in the title contest. Niemi, the 1996 William P.
Cole Award winner as Maryland's best midfielder, was a two-year
starter who became an undergraduate assistant coach for the 1997
Terrapin team that made it to the NCAA final. He went on to coach
the defense for a National Junior College championship team at Anne
Arundel Community College and then serve as graduate assistant at
Washington College (24-7, 2 NCAA tournaments). In 2001 he was an
assistant for a Loyola (Md.) College squad that reached the NCAA
quarterfinals before returning to his alma mater in 2002 as an
assistant. Niemi, who has played or coached in nine different NCAA
tournaments, was the defensive coordinator for Washington College
and coached in the 2002 NCAA tournament.
