Kenneth McEwan joined the Chestnut Hill College men’s lacrosse coaching staff as an assistant, prior to the 2016 season. His past coaching experience includes similar positions at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Farmingdale and Ithaca College.
A 1972 graduate of SUNY Cortland, Coach McEwan was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-American First Team selection in his senior season. His bachelor’s degree in education and master’s degree in social work from Syracuse University (1977) has earned him a Certified Social Worker (C.S.W., 1978) designation and prepared him for a career in collegiate teaching and consulting that included positions with the New York State Department of Education (1978), Tompkins Cortland Community College (1979-2014), Cornell University (College of Human Ecology (1977-1979) and Mentor Program (2011-2013), Tropical Field Natural History (1986-1991), Goulds Pumps Incorporated (1993-1994), Challenge Industries (1994), the Quaker Oats Company (1997-2002), and Empire State College (2009).
During his collegiate teaching career, Coach McEwan also gave presentations at Keuka College (Women and Socialized Medicine in the former Soviet Union, 1989), Head Start Annual Meeting (Employment Opportunities for Associate of Applied Sciences Degree Candidates, 1990), and the National Social Work Convention (Establishing Continuous Quality Improvement in Human Service Agencies, 1995). He conducted sabbatical work in Moscow and Leningrad, Russia (Harvard University, Study of Socialized Medicine, 1988), London, England (London School of Economics, 1988), India (Discover India, 1999), Ghana, Africa (School of Social Work, 2000), Beijing, China (International Forum on Citizenship Education, 2006), the Dominican Republic (Community Colleges for International Development, 2007), and Peru (Service-Learning Feasibility Study, 2010). For his work in the field of education, Coach McEwan has received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence from New York State in 1998, the National Teaching Award for Excellence from the University of Texas in 1989, and inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers in 2005.
McEwan’s coaching career began in 1973 as an assistant head coach with SUNY Farmingdale’s men’s lacrosse program. Following that he served as an assistant head coach at Ithaca College from 1983 to 1986, before joining the Griffins’ sideline as an assistant. Coach McEwan currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife Mira.
