Chuck Apel
Apel has served as the head coach at New Jersey's Bridgewater-Raritan High School since 1980 and has won more than 300 games in his career. He led the school to a state championships in 1998, and was inducted into the US Lacrosse New Jersey Chapter and New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association (NJSCA) halls of fame in 2001. He was named the Star-Ledger Coach of the Year in 1984 and 1998.

A longtime proponent of youth lacrosse in New Jersey, Apel was an assistant coach for the 1999 U.S. U-19 team that won the ILF world championship in Australia.

Apel is a 1978 graduate of Rutgers University where he was a two-time All-American. He and his wife, Jill, have two children that also played at Rutgers. His daughter, Jessica, will graduate from medical school at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in the spring, and his son, Matt, just completed a Master’s degree in education and is a special education teacher.

Wendy Kridel
Kridel has coached led the United States to three International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations' U-19 world championships, including this past summer in Canada. Kridel, the athletic director and co-head coach at The Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Md., has a career record of 177-46-4 at the high school level. She previously coached at Towson (Md.) High School and Roland Park Country School and in 18 years of coaching she has won seven league championships.

At the international level, Kridel has piloted the U.S. to a perfect 20-0 record as a head coach in her three IFWLA U-19 world championships. Kridel's 2007 team outscored its opponents 108-24 and defeated Australia 18-3 in the gold medal game. Kridel was also an assistant coach for the U.S. team that won the silver medal in the 1995 IFWLA U-19 world championship.

Kridel is a 1988 graduate of the University of Delaware and earned a Master's degree from Towson University in 1995. She was inducted into the US Lacrosse Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame in 2003.


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