Rhodes College Athletics

Nate Babcock was hired in August of 2017 as assistant coach of the Rhodes men's lacrosse team. The 2022 season will be his fifth with the Lynx.

Babcock has coached individuals on both sides of the ball, moving over to the offense for 2021. Previously he worked with the Lynx defense and man-down units in 2018 and 2019. In his four years at Rhodes, the Lynx have garnered 29 All-SAA nods and four All-Region honorees, including the first in program history. He directly mentored the 2018 SAA Defensive Player of the Year in Steven Yowan. The Lynx hold a 40-13 record during Babcock's tenure which includes a 16-1 conference record.

He has been involved in all aspects of the men's lacrosse program including film and scout oversight, substitution management, heads all purchases and payments through Workday, monitor's the team's academic excellence, and coordinates on-campus recruiting visits. Babcock has brought in over 45 student-athletes to the program, including the 2018 SAA Newcomer of the Year (Alexi Thomas).

During his first year with the Lynx, Babcock helped guide the program to their first-ever NCAA appearance after Rhodes took home both the Southern Athletic Association regular season and tournament Championships. Rhodes would go on to do the same in 2019, advancing to the Sweet 16 both seasons. 

Prior to Rhodes, Babcock was a volunteer assistant coach at Hood College in Frederick, Md. He was also the head coach of Team MD's 2018 squad for a year. Over the summer, Babcock has been involved with the United States Naval Academy lacrosse camps for the last 10 years.

A Baltimore, Md. native, Babcock started lacrosse as a middie at the age of eight. In high school he was also on the cross country team.

Babcock is a 2015 graduate of St. Mary's College of Maryland. There, he spent time as a two-way midfielder on both man-up and man-down units. His team won the 2013 Captial Athletic Conference Championship, advancing to the NCAA Tournament. The anthropology major was a three-time CAC All-Academic honoree.

After graduation, Babcock was an assistant varsity lacrosse/football coach at Cushing Academy in Massachusetts.

Babcock has three siblings. His mother Lori is the resident chaplain at UMD Baltimore medical center while his father John is a retired chief petty officer in the navy and currently teaches music and coaches middle school football and lacrosse at The Calvert School in Baltimore, Md.