New England College

Michael J. McCaffrey was named Assistant Athletic Director of the New England College athletics department in 2024.

McCaffrey brings more than three decades of experience in athletics administration and coaching to the program, most recently having served as the Athletic Director of Sharon High School in Massachusetts. McCaffrey also had stops at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Windham High School and Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. He founded the boys' lacrosse program at Nashua's Bishop Guertin High School during the late 1980s. 

McCaffrey was previously a collegiate men's lacrosse coach with stops at American International College, the College of the Holy Cross, Wheaton College and, in 2008, he was selected as the first head coach in Rivier men's lacrosse history. He also spent one year at NEC in the early 1990s as an assistant men's ice hockey and lacrosse coach. 

A native of Billerica, Massachusetts, McCaffrey graduated from Billerica High School before attending the Loomis-Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut where he was a Lacrosse All-American and selected to play in the National North/South High School All-Star game held at John’s Hopkins. McCaffrey played four years of varsity lacrosse at  the University of New Hampshire helping the Wildcats advance to their first ever NCAA Tournament in 1986 before graduating in 1988 with a degree in sports communication.