As a player Greg Cannella was a High School All American, and a an All American while at Nassau Community College.

After graduating he spent time as an Assistant at Stony Brook before becoming Head Coach at his alma mater the University of Massachusetts in 1993.

Since then, he has gone to achieve eight NCAA Tournament berths, Eight New England Championships, 4 ECAC Championships, five New England Coach of the Year honors and was named National Coach of the Year in 2006, when he guided the Minutemen to the program's first NCAA Championship Game appearance.

In 2019 he was inducted int the USA Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

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