Darris Kilgour

Kilgour played for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League for eight seasons, before finishing his playing career with the Rochester Knighthawks and Albany Attack. As a player, he won three championships with the Bandits, and is the all-time team leader in penalty minutes and faceoffs. Kilgour's number '43' was retired by the Bandits in March 2001,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bandits.com/newsX.asp?type=News&aID=249 |title=Bandits Retiring Rich Kilgours' Number 16 |date=29 March 2011 |website=Buffalo Bandits |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928092249/http://www.bandits.com/newsX.asp?type=News&aID=249 |archivedate=2015-09-28 }} making him the first player to have his number retired by an NLL team. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://nll.com/article.php?id=2738|title=NLL Inducts Second Class to Hall of Fame|work=NLL.com|date=February 16, 2007|accessdate=2007-02-18}}

In 1994, as a member of the Six Nations Chiefs, Kilgour was awarded the Mike Kelly Memorial Trophy as most valuable player in the Mann Cup competition.

In 1998 Kilgour was assistant head coach under head coach, and former captain of the Rochester Knighthawks, Randy Mearns, at Canisius University. Kilgour became head coach of the Washington Power for the 2001 season. He led the Power to the playoffs in each of his two seasons as coach before returning to Buffalo as their head coach after the 2002 season. The Bandits posted a 12-4 record in 2003, and Kilgour was awarded the NLL Coach of the Year Award (later renamed to the Les Bartley Award). The next year, after a mediocre 8-8 regular season, the Bandits caught fire in the postseason, making it to the Championship game for the first time since 1997, but lost the championship game to the Calgary Roughnecks losing 14-11. In 2005 the Bandits would again make it to the Champion's Cup final, this time falling short against Colorado Mammoth 16-9.

Following the 2012 season, Kilgour was fired from his post as general manager of the Bandits, but continued to hold the position of head coach. A season later on June 10, 2013, the Bandits Director of Lacrosse Operations, Scott Loffler, informed Kilgour that he would not be retained as coach for the 2014 season.{{cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1893679-buffo-bandits-2014-nll-preview-big-changes-should-pay-big-dividends|publisher=Bleacher Report|title=Buffalo Bandits 2014 NLL Preview: Big Changes Should Pay Big Dividends|author=Jim Flannery|date=December 18, 2013|access-date=August 21, 2019}}

Kilgour has more wins than any other coach in NLL history, surpassing Les Bartley's 93 wins on March 12, 2010 with the Buffalo Bandits defeating the Toronto Rock 11-10 in overtime at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.

Shortly after leaving the Buffalo Bandits Kilgour was hired as head coach of the Seneca WarChiefs,{{Cite web|url = http://www.salamancapress.com/sports/article_7ef64318-ec76-11e3-98f3-0019bb2963f4.html|title = New indoor lacrosse team to play in Salamanca|date = 5 June 2014|accessdate = |website = Salmanca Press|publisher = |last = |first = }} a Junior B box lacrosse team who compete in the First Nations Junior B Lacrosse League.

Kilgour was arrested on May 9, 2011 for drunk driving after the police found his car in a ditch in the Town of Lewiston. There were additional charges of unsafe backing, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and refusal to take a breath test.{{cite web|url=https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/bandits-coach-darris-kilgour-arrested-for-dwi/article_7237ef1a-b9ed-5907-a625-6e77987cb1dd.html|title=Bandits coach Darris Kilgour arrested for DWI|publisher=Niagara Gazette|date=May 9, 2011|access-date=August 21, 2019}} In 2013, Kilgour got his second DWI arrest in Lewiston after being pulled over at 3:00 AM. He was also charged with speeding and operating a vehicle without insurance or a registration.{{cite web|url=https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/former-buffalo-bandits-coach-darris-kilgour-is-cha/45659|title=Former Buffalo Bandits coach Darris Kilgour is cha|publisher=Inside Lacrosse|date=October 2, 2013|access-date=August 21, 2019}} Then, in 2014 he was arrested for second degree harassment, menacing and endangering a child after dropping his son of at his estranged wife’s house drunk.{{cite web|url=https://inlacrossewetrust.com/former-bandits-coach-darris-kilgour-arrested-again/|title=Former Bandits Coach Darris Kilgour Arrested Again|publisher=In Lacrosse We Trust|date=June 20, 2014|access-date=August 21, 2019}} Once he reached the house, he reportedly approached the house with a hammer and shoved his estranged wife to the ground and harassed her boyfriend.{{cite web|url=https://article.wn.com/view/2014/06/19/ExBandits_coach_Darris_Kilgour_charged_in_domestic_case/|title=Ex-Bandits coach Darris Kilgour charged in domestic case|date=June 19, 2014|publisher=wn.com|access-date=August 21, 2019}}

On September 2, 2018, Kilgour was the victim of a hit and run where he broke both tibias, his femur and dislocated a knee. He had to have a metal rod inserted into his femur.{{cite web|url=https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/campaign-raising-funds-for-darris-kilgour-after-major-injuries-suffered-in-accident/53062|title=Campaign Raising Funds for Darris Kilgour After Major Injuries Suffered in Accident|publisher=Inside Lacrosse|date=September 11, 2018|access-date=August 21, 2019|author=Stephen Stamp}} The man who ran him over, Clark Ivan Abrams, accepted a plea deal for first-degree reckless endangerment and had a blood alcohol content of 0.18 at the time of the accident.{{cite web|title=Sanborn man admits to running over former Bandits coach Darris Kilgour|url=https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/crime/sanborn-man-admits-to-running-over-former-bandits-coach-darris/article_096d307d-fc87-53d3-9532-e02d3531564f.html|publisher=Union-Sun Journal|date=June 27, 2019|access-date=August 21, 2019}}

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{{succession box | before = Bob McMahon | title = NLL Coach of the Year Award | years = 2003 | after = Paul Day}}

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• [http://www.senecawarchiefs.com Seneca WarChiefs website]

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