Updated June 29, 2021
Dan Annino joined Peter Millman's staff as the program's volunteer assistant coach in June 2020. Annino came to Homewood after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Amherst College. In his role at Johns Hopkins, he works closely with the Blue Jay defense alongside defensive coordinator Jamison Koesterer.
During his first season at Homewood, Annino helped Johns Hopkins to its third consecutive appearance in the Big Ten Championship game, where the Blue Jays narrowly fell to top-ranked Maryland. Annino was instrumental in the growth of an entirely remade defensive unit that spearheaded JHU's run to the Big Ten title game. The group was at its best during the team's three games against third-seeded Penn State, second-seeded Rutgers and top-seeded Maryland in the Big Ten Tournament. In six combined games against those teams during the regular season, the Blue Jays allowed an average of 13.5 goals per game; during the three-game run in the tournament, Hopkins cut that number down to 9.7 (29 goals in three games).
At Amherst, Annino helped the Mammoths to a three-year record of 36-9. Amherst posted a 15-4 mark and advanced to the third round of the NCAA Division III Tournament in his first season as an assistant coach (2018) before finishing the 2019 season with an 18-4 record and the program's first appearance in the national championship game. The Mammoths were 3-1 and ranked seventh in the nation when the 2020 season ended abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Annino was the architect of a Mammoth defense that held the opposition to nine goals or less 20 times under his direction and reduced its goals against average by more than two goals per game from the season before he joined the staff. For his efforts during Amherst's 2019 run to the national title game, Annino was the recipient of the IMLCA's Mike Clear Sr. Award as the Division III Assistant Coach of the Year.
A four-year regular and three-year starter on defense during his career at Amherst, Annino earned New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) All-New England honors as a senior and totaled 76 ground balls and 31 caused turnovers during his career.
As a player, Annino helped lead an Amherst defense that posted a combined¡ 10.34 goals against average during his career while the Mammoths rang up and impressive 52-23 record during that time. The team advanced to the NESCAC title game in 2014 and 2015, appeared in the NCAA Tournament three times (2014-2016) and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals in 2015 and 2016.
Annino graduated from Amherst in 2016 with a degree in economics. He joined the Mammoths’ coaching staff following a year as an investment banking analyst at a firm in New York.
