Chris Gabrielli

Biography

Former University of Massachusetts defender Chris Gabrielli has returned to his alma mater, rejoining the UMass men’s lacrosse staff as an assistant coach in July 2025. Gabrielli, who played for the Gorillas from 1998-2001, also previously served as an assistant coach on Greg Cannella’s staff from 2002-2005. In his 23 years of coaching, he has helped teams to nine NCAA tournament appearances, eight NCAA quarterfinal appearances, six final four appearances and two championship game appearances. Gabrielli spent the past three seasons at Bryant University, most recently as the Bulldogs’ associate head coach. While at Bryant, he was the program’s defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator and helped the Bulldogs to the 2025 America East regular season title and an America East Conference tournament championship in 2023. From 2013-2022, Gabrielli served as the men’s lacrosse head coach at Providence College. and led the Friars to Big East Tournament appearances on four occasions (2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021). He was named New England Coach of the Year in 2013 and the Big East Coach of the Year in 2017. Gabrielli coached 20 All-Big East selections, two Big East Goalies of the Year, two All-Americans, the 2017 Big East Defenseman of the Year in and had four players drafted in either the MLL or NLL during his time in Providence. Prior to taking over the helm at Providence, Gabrielli spent six years as an assistant at Duke (2007-12). During that six-year period, Gabrielli helped t