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Nor Cal Lacrosse CONVENTION 2011

"Building the Future by Honoring the Game:"

The 13th annual NorCal Chapter of USLacrosse Lacrosse Convention was held on January 8 at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo. There were over 500 coaches, administrators and umpires in attendence.

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2011 Keynote Speakers:
Karin Brower Corbett University of Pennsylvania Head Coach (Read Bio>>)
Chris Bates - Head Coach - Princeton University (Read Bio>>)

Men's Game Presenters Updated 1.3.11
Chris Bates - Head Coach, Princeton University
Larry Boehm - Head Coach, Saratoga High School
Colin Knightly - Head Coach, St. Mary's University
Matt Ogelsby - Founder, All West Lacrosse Camps
Gary Podesta- Head Coach, Santa Clara University/President, WCLL
Lorne Smith - Former USA National team, MLL, NLL and Princeton University player/Founder, Lorne Smith Lacrosse
Carlos Trujillo - Head Coach, Mexican National Lacrosse Team/Head Coach, Archbishop Mitty HS
Peter Worstell - Head Coach, San Ramon Valley HS/Founder,California Gold Lacrosse
David Zazzaro - Head Coach, Colorado College

Women's Game Presenters Updated 1.3.11
Alison Ambrozy - Assistant Coach, University High school/ Former U of Penn player and HS All-American
Amy Bokker - Head Coach, Stanford University/Assistant Coach, USA Women's National team
Karin Brower Corbett- University of Pennsylvania Head Coach
Bill Dougherty - Umpire, Northern California Women's Lacrosse Umpires Association
Scott Corso - Head Coach, California HS/Coach, NorCal USL Chapter teams
Ed Horley - Umpire, Northern California Women's Lacrosse Umpires Association
Jen Lee - Head Coach, Menlo School
Annie Leibovitz - former USA National team member
Jill Malko , Former UC Berkeley Head Coach/National Official
Jenn (JT) Morris - Head Coach, Davis High school/Former Head Coach, George Washington & Richmond University
Theresa Sherry - Head Coach, UC Berkeley
Meredith Simon Black - Assistant Coach, UC Berkeley
Danielle Spencer - Player, Women's USA National Team
Mary Beth Noel Todd - Head Coach, University HS
Michele Uhlfelder - Head Coach, Occidental College

Administration/Operations Track
Don Aiello - President, Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association
Nora Mitchell - Executive Director, NCJLA
Alice Andersen - Anderson Nonprofit Strategies
Johanna Thomashefski - Founder & Co-Director Lacrosse for LIFE

For more information contact:
Heidi Faith
President
Communications Chair
Northern California Chapter of US Lacrosse
650.386.6746

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Karin Brower Corbett University of Pennsylvania Head Coach

Karin Brower Corbett is taking the women’s lacrosse program at the University of Pennsylvania to new heights. With back-to-back Ivy League titles, Brower’s Quakers were 2008 NCAA Finalists and spent a number of weeks ranked No. 1 in the country after defeating Northwestern in the regular season.

Named the 2007 National Coach of the Year by multiple organizations, Brower led the Quakers to an unforgettable 2007 season that saw Penn play in the NCAA semifinals for the first time ever. She followed that with another trip to the NCAA tournament last year, this time advancing to the championship game.

Over the past two seasons, Brower helped Penn shatter virtually every program record on the books, including wins in a season (17), consecutive wins (15), highest national ranking (1) and goals in a season (210).
Prior to coming to Penn, Brower was an assistant coach at Princeton University from 1996-98 where she was instrumental in all aspects of the Tigers’ nationally-ranked lacrosse program, with a particular emphasis on recruiting. She organized clinics for high schoolers and was the assistant director of both the Princeton Tiger Camp and the Princeton Elite Camp.

Brower began her coaching career as an assistant at Rutgers University, before serving as an assistant at Villanova University for a year. She then moved on to her alma mater, where she was an assistant field hockey coach. After a successful year at William & Mary, Brower took the head lacrosse job at Drew University. She led Drew to a pair of conference championships in her two years, and was active in organizing clinics and winter leagues.

As an undergraduate at William & Mary, Brower captained both the field hockey and lacrosse teams as a senior in 1992. She earned first-team All-America honors and was named Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Year in lacrosse as a senior, and was a Regional All-American in field hockey in the fall of 1991.

In the summer of 1991, Brower was a member of the Under-23 National Lacrosse team which faced Great Britain. Following her college career, Brower was a member of the United States Women’s Lacrosse team from 1993-96.

Brower was the IWLCA All-America committee chair from 2006-08 and has served as a board member of the Philadelphia Lacrosse Association. She was also the director for the Lawrenceville Girls Lacrosse Camp, the USA Lacrosse Camp and the “Shoot to Score” Lacrosse Camp. In 2004, she was inducted into the US Lacrosse New Jersey Chapter Hall of Fame, and in 2005 she was inducted into the William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame.

Brower was married to William Corbett in December 2009; the couple resides in West Chester, Pa.

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Chris Bates - Head Coach - Princeton University
Chris Bates, the head coach of men's lacrosse at Princeton University, had an outstanding debut season with the Tigers - and has his program primed for the future.

Bates, who took over for Hall-of-Fame coach Bill Tierney in June 2009, led Princeton to an 11-5 record in 2010, a season that saw the Tigers win the championship of the first Ivy League lacrosse tournament after sharing the regular-season title. Princeton also played in the NCAA tournament, falling in the opening round to a Notre Dame team that would go on to an overtime loss in the national final.

Bates would coach four first-team All-Ivy League selections, including the unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year, during the 2010 season, and all four would be named All-America. Princeton will return seven starters, as well as 18 of the 23 players who played against Notre Dame in the tournament, for the 2011 season, and the returnees will be joined by a top recruiting class.

His career record in 11 years as a head coach is 81-76, including 42-22 his last four years.

Before coming to Princeton, Bates spent 10 years as the head coach at Drexel, where he went 70-71, with 14 wins his first three years, 25 his next four and 31 his last three.

Drexel has won two Colonial Athletic Association championships in his last three years, and Bates led his team to the program's first-ever win over a No. 1-ranked team when the Dragons knocked off Virginia in 2007.

Bates is a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, where he played attack and midfield and earned All-Ivy League honors. He was 1-3 as a player against Princeton, including an 11-4 loss in 1990 in the third-to-last game of his college career. Princeton would go on in 1990 to make the program's first NCAA tournament appearance; Princeton has played in 18 of the last 20 NCAA tournaments and won six championships.

Bates played in the North-South all-star game after his senior year and graduated with a degree in psychology before earning a master's in education from North Carolina. He played for eight seasons in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (now the National Lacrosse League) and won three championships with the Philadelphia Wings while earning all-pro honors in his one season with the Charlotte Cobras.

His coaching career began in 1992, when he started the program at Archbishop Ryan in Philadelphia. He became an assistant coach at Drexel in 1995 and took over as head coach in 2000.

Bates is a native of Katonah, N.Y., and a member of the Hudson Valley Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He and his wife Ann, a pediatrician, have a son Nicholas.

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ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED. Walk up registration at the door is $70 for coaches/$35 for Admin/Operations.

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2008 Men's Track
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2007 Men's Track