Boy's High School Coaches
Bruce ChanenchukAs an All American, Chanenchuk attended the Johns Hopkins University, where he earned three NCAA Div. I National Championships (1984, 1985, 1987). He served as Captain of his collegiate team when they won their third National Championship his senior year. After college, Chanenchuk played professional lacrosse with the Boston Blazers for eight years, three of those years as team Captain. Throughout his lacrosse career, Chanenchuk garnered many awards and scoring records. His Farmingdale, NY High School scoring record held for 20 years, until broken in 2003 by Matt Danowski. Chanenchuk remains active in Club Lacrosse having won 8 Championships in national tournaments such as the Vail Lacrosse Shootout and the Lake Placid Summit Tournament. In 2002, Chanenchuk’s club team represented the U.S. in the Masters Division at the ILF World Championship in Perth, Australia. Bruce enjoys instilling his love of the sport to today’s youth. Chanenchuk was a founding Board Member of Natick Lacrosse and in addition to administrative roles, has been a boy’s team coach at every level (U9 through High School) for the past 9 years. Prior to coaching Natick youth, Bruce was an assistant coach for the Weston Youth Lacrosse and for Harvard University. | |
Ben Courchesne
Roxbury Latin School Head Varsity Lacrosse Coach 2006-Present
Phillips Exeter Academy Lacrosse 1999-2001 | |
Drew Curran
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Tim GardnerXaverian Brothers High School, Westwood, MA
Bancroft School, Worcester, MA,
Suffield Academy, Suffield, CT,
Williams College, Team Co-Captain, Defense 1990-1993 Episcopal Academy (PA), Midfield/LSM 1985 -1989
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Mike Herring | |
James Morrissey
James was a four year player at The Governor's Academy where he was named to the East-West All-Star team his Senior year. James also received All-League honors for both his junior and senior years while being name Team MVP three times and was voted an All-American his senior year. He went on to play four years for Dom Starsia at The University of Virginia where he won a championships as a member of the 2003 National Championship team as well as the undefeated 2006 National Championship team for which he served as a captain. James currently holds the school record for games played by a UVA midfielder. Drafted 23rd overall by the Rochester Rattlers in the 2006 MLL draft and was traded to the LA Riptide. James was Member of the LA Riptide 2006-2008 seasons and was voted to the MLL All-Star team in 2007.
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Matt NooneMatt is a graduate of General Douglas MaCarthur High School, in Levettown New York. After graduation he went to Nassau Community College and was a 2- time JUCO All American (91-92). After transferring to UMass Amherst, Matt was a two Year starter and chosen to play in the North South Classic in 1994 at Johns Hopkins. Matt graduated from the Sports Management program at UMass. Upon graduation, he went back to Nassau and coached the defense for 5 years. While coaching at Nassau, Matt won 3 national champiuonships. Matt then left Nassau to pursue his Masters in Health at Adelphi University and was an asst coach there for the 1999 and 2000 seasons. In his second year at Adelphi they won the Div 2 NCAA National Championship held at Rutgers University. Matt is currently the Head Coach at Foxboro High School in Foxboro, MA. | |
John PirieJohn T. Pirie has been coaching youth, middle school,high school and college lacrosse professionally since 1987. He started his coaching career as the varsity assistant at Wilton High School in Connecticut and then became Head Coach at Brookwood School in Manchester, Massachusetts where he coached for 19 years. In 2007 John was an assistant coach at Gordon College. In 2007 John was also named as Head Coach for the German National U-19 Team that he took to the 2008 World Games in British Columbia. While at the games, the German U19 team not only won their first international game ever but actually went 5-0 in their division and played up to the next division against England, Australia and Japan. The German team beat Japan to secure 6th place overall in the tournament. Currently John teaches Marine Biology and coaches Varsity Lacrosse and JV Football at The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, MA. He has coached the Massachusetts State All-Star Team as well as a variety of select U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-19 teams in competition around the country. During the past six years John has served on the U.S. Lacrosse Coaches Education Committee where he has helped write a national coaches education and training program in addition to giving private coaches clinics in various parts of the country. John has also written and presented his own coaching curriculum at the U.S. Lacrosse National Convention for the past six years. John’s work in Europe includes a European Lacrosse Coaches Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany in June of 2006, a clinic in Prague, Czech Republic in August of 2007 where John represented the International Lacrosse Federation and lastly a coaches clinic in Dusseldorf also in August of 2007. John will travel to Poland in August of 2009 with Duke Head Coach John Danowski to work with the Polish National Lacrosse Team and their coaches while on assignment for the Federation of International Lacrosse. In addition to being a lacrosse coach, John is a high school biology teacher, father of four lacrosse players under 17 years old and is also married to a lacrosse coach. | |
Matt Rowley | |
Nick Wilbur | |
