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DATE: Nov. 21, 2001
CONTACT: Paul Krome, pkrome@lacrosse.org
US Lacrosse Tabs Boys’ Latin’s Shriver As 2003 U.s.
Men’s Under-19 Team Coach
Three standout prep coaches to join Shriver as U.S. seeks to defend
'99 championship
Baltimore — US Lacrosse today announced that Bob Shriver,
head boys’ lacrosse coach at the Boys’ Latin School in
Baltimore, will coach the U.S. Men’s Under-19 Team that will
compete in the 2003 International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) World
Championship at Towson (Md.) University. Shriver and his three assistants
were selected among a pool of 21 applicants by the 2003 U.S. Men’s
Under-19 Team Competition Committee.
"This is a terrific honor. I am very happy and am looking
forward to the challenge of coaching this team," said Shriver.
"It will be fun to have the tournament here. There won’t
be any heavy travel, so we should get a large number of [player]
applicants, which should increase the talent pool. It should be
fun."
Assisting Shriver will be three successful prep coaches from across
the nation: Sam Carpenter of East Chapel Hill (N.C.) High
School, John Kenney of Detroit Country Day School, and John
Tucker of Loyola (Md.) Blakefield. Carpenter was named the 2000
North Carolina High School Lacrosse Coach of the Year, while Kenney
earned the same award in Michigan in 2001. Tucker guided Loyola
to the 2001 Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA)
Championship.
"The committee was very impressed with the quality and geographic
diversity of the applicant pool for the four coveted positions,"
said Jody Martin, US Lacrosse Men’s Division Director.
"The decision was difficult, but we feel that the selected
staff is outstanding and will give the U.S. team its best chance
of defending its 1999 ILF World Championship."
Shriver is no stranger to international lacrosse competition. He
served as an assistant coach on the 1988 and 1999 U.S. under-19
teams that won world championships. He also was selected as an alternate
player on the 1974 and ‘78 U.S. senior teams after earning
All-America honors at Washington (Md.) College in ’72 and ’73.
Since 1980 Shriver has been the head coach at Boys’ Latin,
his alma mater. He has taken the Lakers to the MIAA playoffs in
15 of the last 17 years, including eight trips to the A Conference
finals and three championships.
"Coach Shriver brings a wealth of international experience
to the position and his record as a head coach speaks for itself,"
said Martin.
US Lacrosse is hosting the joint men’s and women’s under-19
world championships at Minnegan Stadium in Towson June 26—July
6, 2003. Wendy Kridel, head girls’ lacrosse coach at
the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, was named the women’s under-19
team coach on October 22.
For more information on the selection process for the 2003 U.S.
Men’s Under-19 Team, contact Martin at 410-235-6882, x110,
or jmartin@lacrosse.org.
US Lacrosse, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, is the national
governing body of men's and women's lacrosse.
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