La Costa Canyon Mavericks

August 26th, 2010

La Costa Canyon senior goalie Eric Sanschagrin has committed to play NCAA Division I lacrosse at Princeton University.

Sanschagrin, the starting goalie on the Mavericks’ 23-0 CIF-San Diego Section championship team, said he also considered Penn, UCLA and Stanford before selecting the New Jersey-based Ivy League school.

“It was, to me, the clear No. 1 choice,” Sanschagrin said. “It had the best combination of academics and lacrosse that I could reasonably find in the United States.”

Sanschagrin made his verbal commitment to the Tigers’ program on July 30. As a junior, he racked up several postseason honors, including first-team All-CIF and first-team All-North County. Most notably, Sanschagrin was one of two juniors out of the San Diego area selected as U.S. Lacrosse High School All-Americans.

Sanschagrin added that he is pumped to take his game to the next level.

“I’m excited about it,” he said. “Princeton will already have an All-American senior goalie, and I’m looking forward to learning from him before challenging for a starting spot in years to come.”

Denver Announces 2012 Recruits

December 14th, 2010
Three Top Players in West Head List
From Press Releases and Staff Reports

DENVER – Half of Denver’s 2012 recruiting class is from the West and three are ranked among the top 25 players in the West. The Pioneers announced their latest recruiting class today.

No. 1 in the West Tyler Ekeroth (middie, Rancho Bernardo, Calif.), No. 8 Michael Riis (defenseman, La Costa Canyon, Calif.) and No. 13 Wesley Berg (middie, Canadian, B.C.) head the class.

Ekeroth verbally committed to Denver in January 2011, ending plenty of speculation about where the top player in the West would play collegiate lacrosse. At the time, he said he also considered Division I programs at Cornell, Maryland and Syracuse.

Riis, who plays for defending CIF-San Diego Section champion La Costa Canyon, is a long-stick middie who led LCC in scoring in 2010. Berg led his team to the No. 1 ranking in Canada. The team was also a 2010 national silver medalist and provincial champs in 2008.

Middie Sander Aplet (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), defenseman Carson Cannon (Stillwater, Minn.) and goalie Ryan LaPlante (Fort Collins, Colo.) also signed national letters of intent.

Applet was an All-American and team MVP his junior season, Cannon was an honorable mention All-American his junior year and team captain for 2011, and LaPlante was an honorable mention All-American his junior year and team captain for 2011.

“This group of young men, our second as a coaching staff, represents exactly what we are looking for when we set out to construct a recruiting class,” said head coach Bill Tierney. “They are, first and foremost, fabulous young men from great families who will devote their efforts to having a positive impact on our university.”

The Pioneers other six recruits are from five states. Attackman Sean Canniazzaro (Cazenovia) and middie Yonjo Kang (Bronxville) are from New York; defenseman Nick Gorman (Olney) is from Maryland; attackman Garret Holst (Fishers) is from Indiana; attackman Connor Pagnani (Nashville) is from Tennessee, and attackman Aiden Scott (Ridgefield) is from Connecticut.

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.

Congratulations to Coach Foss, the lead assistant coach of the Mavericks since 2004, has been chosen as Head Coach of one of the best H.S. lacrosse programs in the nation. He has been instrumental in the success of the program for the last 7 years. Coach Foss will improve the LCC program with a great understanding of the athletic department, the administration, and the players in the greater Encinitas area. Upon his hire, he retained LCC Varsity Defensive Coordinator Nick Sherrell and JV Head Coach Bryan Bome. Congratulations to Coach Foss and the LCC lacrosse program