Announcement
FOSS NAMED LCC BOYS HEAD COACH
November 20th, 2010
Seven-Year Assistant Ready for Challenge of Top Job
By Jill R. Dorson
WSL Managing Editor
When Dallas Hartley stepped down as the head boys lacrosse coach at La Costa Canyon (Calif.) after the 2010 season, Jesse Foss was ready to step up.
Foss, a seven-year assistant at the perennial powerhouse in Carlsbad, Calif., was officially named head coach earlier this year. Despite the change at the top, expect LCC to be, well, LCC.
“Our goal is always to win the CIF championship and to be the top team in the West,” Foss said.
The Mavericks, who won the CIF-San Diego Section championship in 2010, have made eight consecutive appearances in the title game. The 2010 team was the second to finish unbeaten under Hartley.
To that end, Foss has developed a tough out-of-league schedule that not only includes games against top teams in California and Colorado, but a trip to upstate New York to play several highly-touted East Coast teams during spring break.
Foss inherits an LCC team that was ranked No. 2 in the West at the end of the 2010 season.
If Foss brings anything “new” to his expanded role, it will be a further focus on fitness.
“My background as a certified strength and conditioning coach should help our players be able to compete at a high level and stay healthy throughout the season,” he said.
Foss knows a little something about staying healthy – and success. Before joining the LCC staff, Foss was also an undergraduate assistant at Stony Brook (NY) University (2002) and coached several elite traveling lacrosse teams, including the West Coast Starz and Shredderz.
Foss won an NJCAA national championship at Nassau (NY) Community College in the late 1990s, where he was an all-region selection as an attackman.
He went on to play NCAA Division I lacrosse at Stony Brook (NY), where he started at midfield. The Seawolves won an America East championship.
