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Bryan BrazillBryan Brazill-The Head Honcho

  • Played his high school lacrosse at Ridgefield High School, CT
  • He played his college ball at Merrimack College
  • He led the warriors in scoring his final three years
  • Among the top 10 points producers in the country ’04 & ’05
  • He was the captain in his final year
  • He played overseas for the New South Wales state team in Australia
  • He has coached at camps and clinics throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Pennsylvania
  • Coach Brazill was the offensive coach at his Alma Mata, Merrimack College, for the ’05-’07 seasons
  • He started Home Grown Lacrosse in December of ’05 running elite teams, camps and other outdoor programs
  • He opened the doors to the indoor facility on January 5th 2007
  • Coach Brazill is currently the Haverhill High School Boy’s Lacrosse Head Coach
  • Coach Brazill was contacted through the Boston Cannons Head Coach Bill Dayein 2009 for Training Camp and pre-season games as a Midfielder.
  • Coach Brazill was named the Merrimack Valley Conference Division II Lacrosse Coach of the Year for his 2009 season with Haverhill High, who ended with a 12-4 record (7-1 in conference).
  • September 2011 Bryan again took a position at Merrimack College as an assistant where he continues to coach.
  • Coach Brazill is a MBYLL USL Level 1 trainer.

Corinne BanerCorinne Baker-The Female Phenom

  • Played her High School Lacrosse at Mansfield High School, MA
  • She also began the team there in her freshman year.
  • She went on to have a successful career at Bridgewater State College.
  • She was the leading points scorer and broke 3 All Time records during her tenure.
  • She was the #2 player in Division III for highest percent of draw controls per game her freshman year.
  • She was a team captain her Junior and Senior year.
  • She has extensive coaching knowledge, having coached youth lacrosse in Brdigewater, MA, and a college coach at both The University of New England and Bryant University
  • She has coached camps all over the country during the summer ranging from private instructional to larger, university-run camps such as Brown and Duke University.
  • Coach Baker is a graduate of the NCAA’s Women’s Coaches Academy in 2007 in Indianapolis, following a week-long structure of classes, seminars, and networking. She will attend the WCA Graduates Classes (Dimension 2) in Boston in May, 2010.
  • Coach Baker is currently the Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Merrimack College
  • 2010 DII Coach of the Year – womenslacrosse.com
  • Led Merrimack to a #9 National Ranking, Offense was #5 in the country, #7 nationally for scoring margin. Also had one of the top scoring defenses in the country.
  • Has graduated 3 All-Americans, 4 All-Regions, and 11 All-NE10 players in three years
  • Her Warriors received the inaugural NE-10 Academic Excellence Award in 2010, awarded to the women’s lacrosse team with the best team GPA in the conference

 

 

peter_Peter Smyth-The Stick M.D.

  • Played his high school lacrosse in Reading, MA for Austin Prep
  • He was a two-year captain
  • He still holds the career points record at the school
  • He then went on to play College lacrosse at Nichols College
  • He was a four-year starter
  • Two-year captain
  • He reached his collegiate 100 goals in his senior year.
  • Peter received his bachelors in Sports Management.
  • Recipient of his masters degree in Business with a concentration in Sports Management.
  • 2009-2010 Haverhill High School assistant coach
  • 2011 head coach of his alma mata Austin Prep
  • Led Austin to a conference championship while sending 4 players off to play college lacrosse.

Mike Morgan – Coach

 

The 2011-12 season will mark Mike Morgan’s fifth as head coach of the Merrimack men’s lacrosse team.

Morgan’s first four seasons were as successful as any Division II men’s lacrosse coach ever, as he became the first head coach to win 50 games in four seasons when Merrimack defeated Le Moyne on May 6, 2011.

In Morgan’s first four seasons, he has guided Merrimack to its first-ever NCAA Final Four appearance, a Northeast-10 Championship and three Northeast-10 Championship appearances.

Morgan previously served as an assistant coach at Merrimack, working primarily with the defense.

Prior to his arrival at Merrimack last season, Morgan served as the head lacrosse coach at St. Dominic High School for four seasons. He led the team to 38 wins in four years, the most in school history over a four-year stretch, and his teams were 24-1 against schools of comparable size. Additionally, his team GPA was ranked in the top two of the school’s athletic teams over all four years.

In 2005, Morgan was selected to evaluate and coach the Long Island Empire State Lacrosse Team. He also guided St. Dominic to its first-ever Class AA Championship Game. He still holds the all-time record at St. Dominic, where he was both captain and Team MVP in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Morgan was a CHSAA All-League selection in 1995 and 1996.

A 2000 graduate of Merrimack College, Morgan was named an All-American in 2000 when he earned First Team All-Northeast 10 and All-New England honors. That year, he was also named New England Player of the Year. He was a key member of the 2000 squad that captured Merrimack’s first Northeast-10 Championship and two ECAC Championships (1999, 2000).

The newest member of Home Grown Lacrosse, Dan Boothby will primarily be focused on working with the Home Grown Academy Boys & Girls Lacrosse Club Teams.

Dan has spent the last six years working with Northeastern athletes, having joined the staff as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach in Nov. 2005. He has since assumed control of Northeastern’s Strength and Conditioning department and oversees the program implementation for all Northeastern’s Varsity sports as well as the care provided to the Club sport programs.  Dan also is a health science professor and teaches classes at both Northeastern and Mount Ida college.  On top of that Boothby has helped organize a National Strength and Conditioning conference specific to Hockey through Boston’s Sports Medicine and Performance Group (BSMPG), that attracts some of the best performance specialist in the world to Boston and Northeastern’s beautiful campus.
Boothby, a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, also has created Dan Boothby Performance Training center, which are tailored for sport-specific strength and conditioning for all levels, including high school, college, professional and Olympic-caliber athletes.