A complete listing of awards and honorees are as follows:

Outstanding Contribution to the Game
Steve Peterson – Terrace Park, Ohio
Peterson has created numerous opportunities in the sport for over 11 years. He has been the lacrosse commissioner for the Terrace Park Recreation Commission for 11 years and is currently the US Lacrosse Southern Ohio Chapter president. Peterson is also the head coach for four boys’ teams in Terrace Park Bulldog Youth Lacrosse program and has been a coach at the high school and middle school level in the Mariemont School District. An avid official, Peterson officiates boys’ and girls’ games at youth through the high school level. Peterson is dedicated to making lacrosse accessible to all by offering free youth lacrosse clinics and providing scholarships for Terrace Park area lacrosse camps.

Program Administrator of the Year
Mathew Levine – New York, N.Y.
Levine has been giving back to the sport of lacrosse for over 15 years. His program, City Lax, uses lacrosse as a vehicle to teach life lessons. He has put in countless hours of research, pavement-pounding, fundraising and coaching over the past several years to get City Lax off the ground. Through Levine’s efforts, hundreds of young boys and girls in NYC and the surrounding boroughs have had the opportunity to begin playing lacrosse. His program is well-rounded and poised for great success and continued influence on young people. As a US Lacrosse BRIDGE Committee member, Levine is actively involved with US Lacrosse and with the BRIDGE Initiative on a national level. He continues to serve through his involvement with US Lacrosse.

Exceptional Double-Goal Coach
Doug Appleton – San Carlos, Calif.
Appleton is the vice president of the Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association, founder of Firehawks Lacrosse Club, and president of Talon Lacrosse. In the Firehawks’ first year, Appleton had 65 kids on three teams: Firestarters, PeeWees, and Pups. The club has grown and is known throughout the area for success, incredible sportsmanship, and character both on and off the field. Known for sharing the Native American tradition of the game with all of his players, the message Appleton teaches is "win with grace, lose with dignity" as well as to honor the game every minute on the field.

Kevin Von Graham Award (formerly the Exceptional BRIDGE Coach Award)
Zach Lehman – Bethel, Maine
A graduate of Dartmouth and then Harvard Law School, Lehman brought his personal passion for lacrosse and youth to underserved communities in the Boston Metropolitan area in imaginative ways. Lehman is the founder of Metro Lacrosse, a not-for-profit organization that provides sports-based character education programs to approximately 500 youth in eight of Boston's urban communities. Metro Lacrosse incorporates the message of R.E.S.P.E.C.T., an acronym for: Responsibility, Effort, Sportsmanship, Participation, Enthusiasm, Communication and Teamwork.

Excellence in Growing the Game
Edmund "Beau" McCaffray – Wilmington, N.C.
McCaffray was a founding member of the North Carolina Lacrosse Foundation (which is now the North Carolina Chapter of US Lacrosse) in 1987 and sat on the Lacrosse Foundation Board of Directors from 1988 to 1990. He has also been a coordinator of New Hanover County Schools’ (NHCS) middle school boys’ lacrosse program since 1990 and in 2002, he was awarded a grant to start girls’ lacrosse in NHCS middle schools. In 1995, the U.S. Lacrosse Coaches’ Association named McCaffray "Lacrosse Man of the Year" for North Carolina. McCaffray has not only sat on, but co-founded, numerous councils, committees and boards that serve to grow the sport of lacrosse. He was an integral part in founding the BRIDGE committee, governed by the US Lacrosse Youth Council. He is also an avid lacrosse coach for both the boys’ and girls’ game. In 2000 he served as the New Hanover High School High School boys’ varsity lacrosse coach. He served as the Laney High School girls’ varsity lacrosse head coach in 2007.

Boys’ Youth Coach of the Year
Scott Hugdahl – Eden Prairie, Minn.
Hugdahl has been actively involved in Eden Prairie youth lacrosse since 2001. He has been the director of the Eden Prairie Youth Lacrosse Association (EPYLA) since 2004. In 2005, Hugdahl became the vice president of Youth Lacrosse Minnesota and still holds that position today. After Hugdahl built the EPYLA into the premier youth organization, he focused his efforts toward building a better state organization. He was a founding member of Youth Lacrosse Minnesota (YLM). The purpose of YLM was to unite all youth lacrosse organizations under one umbrella organization in order to provide a single set of rules at each age level as well as a state playoff system. Hugdahl is also an accomplished leader on the field having an impressive overall coaching record in Eden Prairie of 162-13-1.

Girls’ Youth Coach of the Year
Scott Biron – Norfolk, Mass.
Biron, a graduate of Boston University, is currently a junior high school physical education teacher and lacrosse coach. He serves as director of coaches’ education with the Mass Bay Youth Lacrosse League. Each year he coaches an average of six teams of varying age and skill level. Some of the programs he is involved with include: Acton Boxborough Youth Lacrosse, King Philip Youth Lacrosse, Mass Elite and Achieve Lacrosse. Biron’s teams learn responsibility, the importance of giving back and dedication. His girls are known for assembling sticks and donating them to the community. His team alumni often come back for his early morning practices, even after they have moved on from the league. Biron has also served as an at-large member of the US Lacrosse Youth Council and is currently the US Lacrosse Coaches’ Education Committee women’s sub-committee chair as well as a US Lacrosse Level 1 certified trainer.

The following awards will also be given for years of service to the sport:

10+ Years of Service
Lois Hely – Westfield, N.J.
Steve Peterson – Terrace Park, Ohio

15+ Year of Service
Mathew Levine – New York, N.Y.

20+ Years of Service
Donald Obrecht – Chattanooga, Tenn.
John Lucas – Oceanside, N.Y.
Edmund "Beau" McCaffray – Wilmington, N.C.

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