The US Coach of the Yr Award is given to a head coach or co-head coaches who made a noticeable distinction within the efficiency of a scholastic lacrosse workforce in a selected season. The teaching efficiency just isn’t restricted to progress made within the 12 months which the award is given.
Listed below are this 12 months’s nominees:
Tim Bosco, Olentangy Liberty (Ohio) — Fifth-year head coach guided to the Patriots to the primary championship the varsity has ever received in a workforce sport
Kim Frantz, Higher Moreland (Pa.) — Regardless of a powerful historical past in ladies’ lacrosse, it’s notable that Frantz was in a position to information this workforce to win a PIAA state playoff sport. With the win Higher Moreland grew to become solely the second workforce from Decrease Bucks County to win a state match sport
Michael Haight, Olney Good Counsel (Md.) — After a decade and a half as head coach, he might need had his most interesting workforce. Falcons had an undefeated file and a win within the WCAC championship, however the eye-popping end result was a Spring Fling win over Bethesda Stone Bridge (Md.) facet
Skip Harris, Essex (Vt.) — Took over two years in the past after the workforce received just one sport and introduced the facet to the state championship
Sonorah Hunter, Denver Colorado Academy (Colo.) — Former Denver College participant was in a position to hold CA’s place on the prime of the heap in Colorado’s 5A bracket, beating some formidable groups in the course of the 2024 season
Gary Jensen, Sayville (N.Y.) — Got here out of a troublesome space of the state (Lengthy Island) and received its first state championship with a 9-5 win over Rye (N.Y.)
Carrington King, Charlottesville St. Anne’s-Belfield (Va.) — Taking classes from final 12 months’s season, the Saints beat Alexandria St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (Va.) within the VISAA state last
Darcy Messina, South Huntington St. Anthony (N.Y.) — Took a gifted workforce on a season-long ramble by means of league and intersectional video games and completed with an undefeated season
Helen McCutcheon Oliver, Chatham (N.J.) — Received a 3rd straight state championship; on all three events, the Cougars beat a South Jersey legacy powerhouse. In 2024, they bested Moorestown (N.J.)
Amy Orcutt, Tredyffrin Conestoga (Pa.) — A resilient Pioneer workforce acquired by Radnor (Pa.) within the state last after shedding to the Raptors twice within the common season
Jenny Tran, Arlington Yorktown (Va.) — Having received the 2022 state title, a lot of gamers left to focus on soccer, however the workforce bounced again to win the VHSL championship over longtime energy Fairfax James Robinson (Va.)
Kristin Woods, New Canaan (Conn.) — In some of the aggressive leagues in the US, New Canaan was in a position to beat its principal rival, Darien, twice in 4 weeks to take two main trophies
The recipient will likely be introduced July 25.
