Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

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We're interviewing high school and college coaches to discuss philosophy and X's and O's.

If you want to be a better coach today or just want a behind the scenes look at your favorite program, you’re going to listen to every episode more than once.

We are pleased to introduce The Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion presented by Epoch Lacrosse.

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Anthony Abbondanza - Pittsburgh Central Catholic

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

09/09/22 • 30 min

Pittsburgh Central Catholic head coach Anthony Abbondanza joins the show to discuss how the pandemic influenced his coaching career, the differences between his first ever coaching season and year two, as well as how he approaches coaching high school defensemen.

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Max Rosner - Taft

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

06/09/23 • 17 min

We're speaking with new Taft head coach Max Rosner on this episode of Coach's Companion.

Prior to being elevated to the head coaching role, Coach Rosner spent time at the Westtown School in West Chester, PA and Potomac School in McClean Virginia.

He's also coached with Next Level.

We discussed his influences, coaching philosophy, and the transition from assistant to head coach at Taft.

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Bryan Wallace and Jack Kensil

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

06/02/23 • 54 min

On today's episode, Bryan Wallace of Roswell stops by to discuss his explosive offense on the way to the Georgia 5A-6A state championship.

Then, Jack Kensil of 2 Wolves Performance and St. Anthony's checks in with his early summer training ideas and recaps Brennan O'Neill rightly earning the Heisman Trophy of lacrosse.

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Tom West and Ken Lovic

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

05/26/23 • 33 min

On today's episode, we speak with Tom West of Bolles School in Jacksonville and Ken Lovic head coach at Georgia Tech and president of the MCLA.

Coach West recapped their 2023 season which ended in the state final, the rise of the Bolles program, and the launch of Southern Fuse recruiting camp.

Then, Coach Lovic covered the the evolution of the Georgia Tech program into an MCLA blue blood and what's next for the MCLA this summer.

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Kelly Gallagher and Parker Ferrigan

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

05/19/23 • 47 min

Back to SEC country!

We have two guests today.

First up is Tampa women's head coach Kelly Gallagher. She recapped their 18-3 2023 season, which just ended in the D2 quarterfinals.

We also touched on recruiting the portal and exit meetings.

In our second interview, we spoke with Lucy Beckham head coach Parker Ferrigan.

Coach just guided the Bengals to their second South Carolina state title in three years.

In addition to stunning team success, the Bengals also have eight college commits heading to D1 and D2 schools.

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Jack Kensil - 2 Wolves

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

05/17/23 • 43 min

Jack Kensil of 2 Wolves Performance and St. Anthony's girls' varsity on player development during the post season, 2 Wolves athletes competing in the NCAA first round, and exit meetings.

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Dylan Sheridan and Nic Bell

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

05/06/23 • 29 min

On today's episode, we have Western Reserve head coach Dylan Sheridan who joins us to discuss the 51st MSLA tournament taking place at WRA this weekend.

We covered what the event means to him, how they prepare for two games in 24 hours, and the behind the scenes workers necessary to pull off such a massive undertaking.

In our second interview, Taft head coach Nic Bell covers zone offense, navigating slow starts due their away schedule and commitment to deploying many athletes on game day.

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Jack Kensil - 2 Wolves

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

05/04/23 • 43 min

Jack Kensil of 2 Wolves performance and St Anthony's returns.

We discussed conference tournament play from the standpoint of how do athletes bounce back from a bad regular season performance.

How do they prepare to make a larger more positive impact in a win or go home scenario?

How do coaches prepare for seeing an opponent for the second time that season?

We also recapped Joey Spallina's freshman season and reviewed the St. Anthony's girls varsity campaign to date.

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One of our favorite new follows this spring is Dadchef. He is a former Buffalo high school lacrosse player now specializing in helping dads be better cooks and chefs for their families.

Dadchef cooks everything from tacos to crawfish boil to things we can't pronounce but know they taste awesome.

You've probably seen the hoodie and mesh shorts already on LPG twitter but Dadchef's full clothing line has launched.

Might as well, "Look good, cook good."

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Collin Welsh - Christian Brothers Memphis

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

04/29/23 • 30 min

Collin Welsh has been at the helm of Christian Brothers since 2013.

We chatted about the evolution of Memphis and Tennessee lacrosse as whole, the Baltimore native's early days in town after playing D1 lacrosse and then coaching coaching with Denison legend Mike Caravanna at Woodberry Forest, as well as box lacrosse and sixes with his organization 901 lacrosse.

We'll finish with what's next for Tennessee after the sport approved state sanctioning.

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Jack Cribbin and Nik Colpitts

Lacrosse Playground Coach's Companion

01/20/23 • 44 min

Jack Cribbin head coach for Lindenwood's women's team is back on the show and we also have Nik Colpitts assistant for Queen's men's program.

Coach Cribbin discussed the behind the scenes at Lindenwood last year when the school told them they were moving up to D1, how they are approaching film review, and the new challenges of recruiting at the D1 level.

Coach Colpitts hops on for our second interview.

He is in his first year at Queens after spending time at Jacksonsville and Wingate.

We covered what he learned from Coach Galloway at Jacksonville, how he attacked the offseason moving from Jacksonville to Queens, their offensive focus this spring, and the consequences of the jump to D1 on recruiting .

The Lacrosse Playground Podcast Network is presented by Epoch Lacrosse.

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