Maine Maritime Academy

Captain John Cashman, Maine Maritime Academy’s Commandant of Midshipmen, joined the school in June of 2019 after recently retiring from the Coast Guard where he served on three cutters and as both a trial and staff attorney. He joined the men's lacrosse staff in the fall of 2019 as a volunteer assistant coach.

Captain Cashman earned his Bachelor of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997, his law degree from Suffolk University in 2006, and received leadership training at the U.S. Coast Guard Officer Candidate School where he was commissioned into the Coast Guard in 1999.

A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, Cashman first started playing lacrosse in high school and continued playing in the club lacrosse program at Georgia Tech. For the past four years he coached youth lacrosse teams in Springfield, Virginia.