Head Lacrosse Coach
Lacrosse at Prep enters its fourth season as a varsity sport and has already grown to second highest participation sport at Prep. Last year the team finished 8-10 and made its first ever appearance in the WPIAL D2 tournament. The program also placed their first scholarship athlete on a college team. Coach Lord has been at the helm since the program’s inception and he has been playing and coaching lacrosse since 1971. He was a goalie at both the HS and college level and played collegiately at Cortland State. He began his coaching career in 1980 while teaching HS chemistry in northern New York. Along the way he has helped start HS lacrosse programs in 4 states and has taught dozens of eventual college players to play lacrosse. He moved to Erie in 1999, and co-founded Erie Youth Lacrosse Association in 2001 with local retired businessman and Princeton lacrosse All-American Henry Fish. That same year he started the Erie Spears, and has started each subsequent high school boys lacrosse team in Erie: McDowell (2004) and Cathedral Prep (2007). The Cathedral Prep program is his eighth. He has started summer youth lacrosse recreational programs as well as began the official board that later joined the ALOA. Coach Lord works as a process engineering consultant to the metal finishing industry and has a Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry.