We offer top-tier coaching, organized leagues, and competitive opportunities to help players reach their maximum potential and chase their lacrosse aspirations. We wholeheartedly believe in the life-changing power of sports, teaching valuable lessons in teamwork, perseverance, and sportsmanship.
A Maryland native, lacrosse is in Patrick's blood. He has had a stick in his hand since before he could walk, and was blessed to have been coached by the best in the country. His passion lies in developing youth lacrosse in the South Bay through mentoring and coaching individual players to believe in the skills and lacrosse IQ needed to be successful
In high school, Patrick started as a sophomore and led St. Paul’s to a Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association championship where they were ranked the number one team in the nation. His senior year, he set the single-season assist record and was a top recruit in the country.
Patrick was also selected as a captain for the Maryland Free State team where he made the final cut out of 250 high school players. Patrick chose to attend D1 Towson University for its rich lacrosse history and academics.
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Patrick works in private wealth management with UBS and resides in Monte Sereno with his wife Allison and their English Bulldog Grammy
PATRICK SWEENEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Bellarmine: Lacrosse Head of Program
Grow Your Game: President
Born and raised in California, Davis is an East Bay Area native. He started playing lacrosse over 20 years ago and played collegiate lacrosse at UC Santa Cruz where he was a 2x captain and All-American. He has more than 15 years of experience working with athletes as both a lacrosse coach and as a strength and conditioning coach. He has had the opportunity to help coach multiple championship teams at both the high school and collegiate level. He is currently on the coaching staff of the Los Gatos High school Boys Varsity lacrosse team
His coaching philosophy is rooted in helping athletes accomplish their goals both on and off the field by challenging players to learn, grow, build meaningful connection, and ultimately find the success for themselves.
Off the field, he works as a Physician Assistant with the Stanford Children's Health Sports Medicine and Orthopedics team.
Davis Lehman
DEFENSE COACH
Los Gatos: Lacrosse Head of Program
Greg has been coaching for over 15 years and has coached at every level of the game. His goal has always been to help grow the sport in the Bay Area and California as a whole. He has worked with youth all the way up to Pro level players. He is currently the Head Coach at Santa Clara University, Austrialian National Team, ADVNC NDP, and assistant at Bellarmine High School. His background is in defense but he is verse in every aspect of the game.
GREG HOLLINGSHEAD
DEFENSE COACH
Bellarmine: Varsity Assistant Coach
Mark started playing lacrosse in 4th grade and continued for the next 13 years. Born and raised in Orange Country, California he attended Servite, an all boys Catholic High School, where he was Captain of the lacrosse team. He attended Santa Clara University for college and studied engineering, while there he was president and captain of the Santa Clara lacrosse team his senior year.
Mark currently works as a project engineer in South Bay for a construction management company.
Outside of lacrosse I enjoy skiing and have been doing it my whole life, as well as working out, playing golf, and being with friends and family.
Mark Ellersick
DEFENSE COACH
Bellarmine: Assistant Coach
Jack has played lacrosse for over a decade, starting as a goalie before transitioning to attack. As a senior captain, Jack lead his San Diego high school program, Cathedral Catholic, to its first CIF appearance in over a decade in a school-record setting season where recorded 97 points (60 goals and 37 assists) in just 20 games.
Now a sophomore mechanical engineering major at Santa Clara University, Jack led the men’s lacrosse team in goals and points as a freshman and earned all-conference accolades. Outside of Lacrosse, Jack’s passions are Surfing and Investing.
JACK CIPRIANI
ATTACK COACH
SANTA CLARA PLAYER
Eric was born and raised in Burlingame, CA and began playing lacrosse for Coyotes in 8th grade. In highschool, he attended Saint Ignatius in San Francisco. Eric is currently a senior at Santa Clara University, where he played lacrosse for three years. After his junior year, he was awarded All Conference 2nd team LSM.
Outside of lacrosse, he is pursuing a major in finance. Coaching is a great way to stay involved with the game while having a positive impact on the players.
Eric Birdthistle
DEFENSE COACH
SANTA CLARA PLAYER
Born and raised in Syracuse, NY, Coach Freeden picked up the sick at age 12, and hasn’t put it down since. He grew up witnessing the renowned Gait AND Powel brothers who defined greatness while at Syracuse.
Even through Syracuse's brutal winters, Coach Freeden played year-round. He was a starting Defenseman for four years at Liverpool High School and played club ball up and down the East Coast in the summer "off-season and then tuned up his shorty for the box winter seasons.
 
Freeden went on to play defense at Clarkson University (NCAA Div. 3).
JARED FREEDEN
DEFENSE COACH
Youth Coach
Connor learned his love for the game at an early age from his two older brothers, Robb & Ryan. A native from Larchmont, NY who came up through the Mamaroneck youth lacrosse program which has produced several standouts in all divisions of college lacrosse. Connor lettered in Swimming and lacrosse during his time at Mamaroneck Highschool.
He led the Tigers Lacrosse team to back-to-back league championships in his junior and senior years. Connor went off to play Division 3 lacrosse at Curry College in Milton, MA for Coach Tim Murphy. Connor was a 3 year starter at the attack position and graduated with his bachelors degree in Business Management.
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Connor is now the head coach for the JV team at Bellarmine College prep and is excited to see the growth of South Bay lacrosse over the next few years.
CONNOR MCKEON
ATTACK COACH
Bellarmine: JV Head Coach
Lou Harvey is a Bay Area native who has been a part of the South Bay lacrosse scene since he was 9 years old. His love for the game and time with RedHawks propelled him to a starting position with the Outlaws Lacrosse club.
Lou attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, playing under John Alpizar, where he started on the Varsity team for 3 years. He was selected first-team All-League each year. During his time at Bell, Lou helped lead his team to a historic first-ever Bellarmine Lacrosse victory over Saint Ignatius. He also earned 2 consecutive Team MVP Awards as well as a Defensive MVP Award for his efforts on and off the field - as a leader and in the cage.
After high school, instead of going east to play D1, Lou chose to attend Santa Clara University. He graduated this past June with a degree in Finance. During his time at SCU, Lou had a pivotal role on the Men’s Club Lacrosse team as Team Captain and President, leading his team to two historic seasons. The Broncos had some of their most successful seasons to date with Harvey in the cage. Now, he hopes to spread the game of lacrosse, especially his expertise as a goalie and a defensive leader to other players in the Bay Area.
LOUIS HARVEY
GOALIE SPECIALIST
Bellarmine: Assistant Coach
A Los Gatos native, coach Connor came up through the Red Hawks and Chauncey Boys organizations where he played defense, middy and attack. He went on to play lefty attack at Los Gatos High School where he earned All-league honors while winning the League championship.
From there, Connor moved on to Genesee Junior College in Rochester, NY (one of the best in the country) where he played lacrosse and now plays for NCAA Division 2 Newberry College in South Carolina. Connor coached the COB high school team and Red Hawks camps over the 2023 summer. Connor will take a specifically focus teaching and developing on the individual skills needed to take players to the next level
CONNOR DODD
ATTACK COACH
Collin started his career at Redhawks when he was 8 years old. He played Club throughout his career and upon moving to high school ball he scored Live Oaks first ever programs goal.
Collin was a standout NorCal player and was recruited to Utah Valley, a program which stood in the top 5 D1 MCLA teams for all of 2024. He would go on to play in the National Champion MCLA D1 game as a freshman
Collin has coached youth teams of all ages and has a knack for working on the individual skills needed to excel. He also coaches and mentors for Grow Your Game - a private and small group lacrosse training program in Northern California.
COLLIN FISHER
MIDFIELD COACH
Chris Nespor has an extensive lacrosse background and is the current head coach at Los Gatos High School. After his playing career as an LSM, Nespor spent two years as the defensive coordinator for Cal Poly before moving to the bay area.
This is his 7th year coaching at LGHS, where he has led the team to multiple league titles and post-season appearances.
Chris Nesper
DEFENSE DIRECTOR
Cal Poly: Defense Coach
PARKER UNDERWOOD
FACEOFF SPECIALIST
Bay Area native Parker Underwood started his career playing for the Burlingame Coyotes where he went on to play for various club programs across the nation.
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Parker Underwood is a nationally ranked Face Off specialist who came
up through the Burlingame Coyotes lacrosse program when he fell
in love with the sport. Going on to play for countless club and
travel programs both throughout California and Nationally,
Underwood started his high school career at Sacred Heart Prep
then went on to play for IMG Academy’s Varsity and National teams.
Following high school with a FaceOff win percentage north of 90%, he played for Team USA West in the World Games in Israel before he began his Division 1 career at Marquette University. Due to injuries, Parker transferred to Santa Clara University to wrap up his college career under coaches Patrick Sweeney and Greg Hollingshead. Unfortunately due to another post-season injury, Parker was unable to play for & represent Team Ireland in the 2023 World Games in San Diego, but intends on playing for them in the future.
When asked why he chose to continue to grow the game & stay immersed in the sport and community Underwood had a lot to say. “When I reflect on my life and how lacrosse has impacted it, I just wish I quit baseball earlier and picked up a stick. My longest standing and most valuable mentors are all a direct product of my choice to buy into lacrosse. I’ve been lucky enough to have the best coaches the sport has to offer, and they’ve helped & taught me a wealth of knowledge both on and off the field. I owe so much to the lacrosse world so even if I wanted to, I can’t step away from it and no injury or surgery can make me. I want to make this game to be accessible to everyone, it’s why I coached wheel chair lacrosse at Marquette and it’s why I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to give back to the sport that has given me so much. It’s more than a sport, respecting the origins of the Medicine Game and making it available to all is my why.”
Dom was a youth lacrosse standout for both the RedHawks, and Chauncey Boys. He played high school lacrosse at Bellarmine College Preparatory and is now a D1 collegiate player at Drexel.
Dom has worked through a countless number of injuries which has made him a very determined and understanding coach. Dom will be coaching for the Red Hawks this spring and will be leading a new moment in one on one lessons with "Grow Your Game LLC". He is currently looking to receive his Bachelors Degree in General Business.
