About Park City Lacrosse
The Organization
In 1995 Park City Lacrosse began fielding teams for high school boys and girls. In 2000, the non-profit Park City Lacrosse Organization (PCLO) was incorporated. The following year, PCLO was awarded the Park City Municipal Corporation Youth Advisory Council Grant for development of the boys’ team and the annual Christmas Tree Pick-up fundraiser began. www.parkcitylax.org went online. PCLO became a 501 c 3 organization in 2002. Again in 2003, PCLO was awarded the Park City Municipal Corporation Youth Advisory Council Grant, for the girls high school lacrosse program. PCLO began funding high school girls’ lacrosse in 2003. In 2007, PCLO took over the youth league from Basin Recreation Organization and a youth board was formed. In the 2008 youth, 1st - 8th grade spring season, over 250 girls & boys played in the ULA youth lacrosse league. The high school girls & boys teams fielded over 85 players in the 2008 spring season. In 2008 PCLO hosted for the first time the Utah State High School Lacrosse Championships and All Star games at PCHS Dozier Field.
The PCLO is governed by a 16 person board composed of two committees, one that runs the high school boys organization and another that runs the high school girls organization. Our Youth Organization reports to the PCLO President and PCLO Board and operates with it’s own members.
Current PCLO Board Members
Current PCYLO Board members
High School Boys Team
The high school boys program developed rapidly following the 1995 season, adding more participants each year and gaining recognition as a club sport at Park City High School in 2001. In 2002, the boys’ team made their first appearance in the Las Vegas tournament. Their successful season led to their first appearance in the Utah State Lacrosse Championship playoffs making it to the quarterfinals. In 2005, the boys’ team advanced to the Utah State Lacrosse Championship playoffs playing in the semi-finals with a team record of 11 wins/5 losses. Games began being played at Dozier field. Varsity letters for both boys and girls lacrosse were awarded for the first time. In 2007, Ryan Shaeffer takes over as Varsity Head and his tenure and as coach culminated with a second place in all of Utah in 2010. Rich Levi took over as head coach in the fall of 2010 and Andy Langedorf has
taken on the Varsity Head Coach responsibility for the 2011-2012 season. The
boys team participates in an active fall program which wraps up with an
out-of-state tournament and a spring season that kicks off in mid-February with
an intensive three day training program, followed by a Las Vegas Tournament in
early March.
Andy Langendorf: Varsity Head Coach
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Coach Langerdorf grew up in Canada and played both field and box (indoor) lacrosse on many levels including the senior "A" division league. He also coached field lacrosse at John Abott college in Montreal. He was also involved with the Montreal express of the professional NLL league for 1 season. He has been in Utah since 2005 where he served as an assistant coach for 2 years and head coach for one year at the Oakley school. Andy was also head coach of Team Utah in 2005 as well as coaching in the youth leagues here in Park City.
Andy is certified as a level 1 coach, and is a member of the positive coaching alliance with US lacrosse. He is also slated to write his level 2 coaches exams in the next few months with US lacrosse which will give him one of the top certifications in the country.
Bennett Albertson: Varsity Deffensive Assistant
Bennett is a recent graduate of Dickinson College in PA where he played Division III lacrossefor 4 years. He is a high school All American from Branchville, NJ/Portsmouth Abbey, RI. Bennett is a ski patroller at Deer Valley Resort.
Ethan Fischer: Varsity Offensive Assistant
Ethan grew up in Canton New York and graduated from high school as an All American. He was also involved with New York state's select lacrosse teams as well as playing box lacrosse at a high level both in Canadian leagues as well as in the United States. Ethan eventually went on to play attack at Colgate college with great success.
Ryan Walsh: Head Coach Junior Varsity
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Coach Walsh played midfield for the lacrosse team at McQuaid Jesuit High School
before moving into a long-stick midfield position, and earned a role as team
captain in his senior year. Ryan earned a Bachelor's Degree and played Lacrosse
for Division II Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. He moved to Park City in 2010 and provided some coaching support to Rich Levi in the youth program that year. Ryan was named the head JV coach for the Spring 2011 season. Ryan has also taught skiing, sailing, has coached youth soccer, and
coached mountain biking with Young Riders.
Hans went to high school in Barnstable Cape cod MA. He played lacrosse there until going to Rochester Institute of Technology and played division 3 lacrosse. While at Rochester his team was ECAC champions in 97 /98 , NCAA semi finalists in 99, and NCAA quarterfinalists in 2000. Hans has a great love of the game and has also coached at the youth levels of PCLO.
Trent Rearick: Assistant Coach
Trent grew up playing lacrosse at Trinity Catholic High school where he was a starting midfielder for all 4 years. Trent was the team MVP in his senior year while at Trinity, and played club ball after leaving high school.