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Andrew N. Towers is an American lacrosse coach who currently coaches the Chaos Lacrosse Club in the Premier Lacrosse League(PLL). Andy Towers is the first and only coach in the history of the Chaos Lacrosse Club and led them to a PLL Championship in 2021. In addition to his professional coaching career Towers brings over 19 years of NCAA Division One lacrosse coaching experience with stops at, Yale, Fairfield, Hartford, Dartmouth, Brown.

Playing Career
Andy Towers attended New Canaan High School in Connecticut from 1983-87 in which he played varsity Basketball and Lacrosse. While at New Canaan High School, Towers became one of the most honored players in New Canaan High School lacrosse history, earning accolades as an All-American as a junior and senior in 1986 & 1987. Towers also earned many local awards including the Connecticut Player of the Year Award in 1987 and won the Connecticut State Championship in 85, 86, & 87. Towers was then selected to the 1987 19U United States National Team, and helped them win gold at the 1988 world championship.

After High School from 1987-1988 Towers took a post graduate year at The Lawrenceville School to prepare him for the college level.

From 1989-93 Towers attended Brown University where he played Division 1 Men's Lacrosse for the bears. Towers is considered one of the greatest players in Brown history. During his time at brown he accumulated 150 goals with 50 of them coming in his freshman season. In 1993 Towers won the Ivy League Player of the Year being only the seventh Brown Player to do so. At the end of his career towers accumulated 203 points, and was named First Team All-Ivy in 1993. Towers was also a three time All-American at 2 different positions (2X 1st-Team AA at midfield, 1X Honorable Mention at attack). At the end of his junior year in 1993 Towers was dismissed from Brown. Towers left Brown with both the single-season and career goal crown. The this mark would hold until the spring 2016, when it was broken by Tewaaraton Award winner, Dylan Malloy.

After an excellent college career Andy Towers explored his options in professional lacrosse. From 1994 to 1995 Towers played forward in the NLL(formally known as MILL), for the Boston Blazers and New York Saints. Then again in 2000 he played for the New York Saints and Philadelphia Wings. In Towers' 13 game professional indoor lacrosse career, he recorded 5 goals, 7 assists, and had a 42.5 faceoff percentage, winning 34 of 80 faceoffs.

In 2001 and 2002 Towers played in the newly created MLL, for the Boston Cannons and Bridgeport Barrage. In Towers' professional outdoor lacrosse career he recorded 10 goals, 4 assists, and a 53.5 faceoff percentage winning 250 for 467 in 23 games. During the 2001 season Towers was selected as an MLL All-Star with a league leading 58 face off percentage. At the end of his playing career he is credited with developing many of the faceoff techniques used by many of the top faceoff athletes in the game today.

College Coaching Career
In 1994 Coach Towers returned to Brown with a degree in organizational behavior and management. Towers began his coaching career at his alma mater, Brown as a graduate assistant in 1994 in which the Bears won the Ivy League Championship and went to the final four. In 1995, Towers spent the year as the head coach at the Hackley School, in which the team won its first-ever league championship. Then in 1996 Towers returned to the Brown coaching staff for a year.

Towers then moved on to Yale as an assistant from 1999 to 2000, and had a record of 21-18.

After Yale, Towers got his first head coaching job as an associate head coach at Fairfield in 2002. While at Fairfield he led the stags to a 12-12 record and their first Great Western Lacrosse League Championship and their first NCAA Tournament appearance.

The next stop for Towers was at Hartford as the head coach, in which the team had an 0-14 record in 2004 but had the teams highest GPA in program history.

In 2005 Towers took an assistant coaching job at Dartmouth and in the 5 seasons as an assistant coach has a 32-39 record. In 2010 Towers would take the head coach position. While in command for the Big Green he lead them to a 20-47 record in 5 seasons. During those 5 seasons Coach Towers had a few big upsets, in 2010 Dartmouth upset 16th ranked Cornell, in 2011 Towers upset 17th ranked Harvard, in 2012 the Big Green beat 19th ranked Colgate, and again in 2012 upset 9th ranked Princeton. While in his 5 years at Dartmouth, Towers had 11 players win All-Ivy honors and 1 first team All-Ivy.

Professional Coaching Career
After the 2014 season Towers was fired by Dartmouth and he was mostly out of the lacrosse world and was living in his home in New Canaan selling diamonds for Elemetal Diamonds. In 2018 Towers was hired by the newly formed Premier Lacrosse League, a professional outdoor lacrosse league, and was charged with being the head coach for the new Chaos Lacrosse Club. During the first season with the Chaos LC Towers led them to a league best 7-3 record but lost in the first round of the postseason. During that 2019 season Towers won the PLL Coach of the Year. The next season in a 2020 Coronavirus shortened season, Towers led the Chaos to a 0-4 regular season record but made it to the championship game where they would lose 12-6 to the Whipsnakes LC. During the 2021 season Towers led the Chaos to a 4-5 record and won their first PLL Championship 14-9 over the Whipsnakes LC.

Coaching Philosophy
Coach Towers is widely known for his big personality, stature, ambition, and passion for the game and is often referred to as a "Blue-Collar Coach". Coach Towers is not know as a "x's & O's" coach, but rather a coach that tries to develop a bond between his players and create excellent chemistry on and off the field. Coach Towers' teaches handwork and toughness and believes that a team reflects the attitude of its coach. Towers historically has not had the most talented of rosters, but rather focuses on building a strong team culture.

Outside of Coaching
During the PLL off season Coach Towers spends time in his hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut with his wife of 22 years Carlene, and their 2 kids, Daughter Tyler and son James. Towers also runs his own company, Lacrosse Draws which was created in 2002 as "an organization committed to helping young players succeed in their mission to become the best players and people that they can be by attacking life with focus, effort, and toughness." Lacrosse Draws hosts a series of camps, clinics, and college recruiting help for young lacrosse players.