Team NorCal Lacrosse

Team NorCal is the oldest, largest and most successful elite and travel lacrosse program in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Over the past 5 years we have grown from a single U13 team, to this past year sponsoring 11 teams across U11, U13, U15, and High School Boys Divisions.  

Team NorCal selects teams based on competitive tryouts beginning in December of each year. We have a philosophy that is unique in youth sports. We do not allow parents to coach any of our teams.  Our coaches are among the most accomplished high school, club, and youth coaches in California.  They each have a record of success in the sport, and desire to share their love of the game with the next generation of players. 

Team NorCal plays in tournaments year round (except the Spring when the regular high school and youth season takes place).  Our goal is to compete successfully in many of the most competitive regional and national youth lacrosse tournaments.  

Our objective is to allow each player to develop his skills and achieve his full potential in the sport.  By joining with the best players in Northern California, players can challenge themselves to refine their skills and knowledge of the game, make new friends that they will compete against in high school, and even college.  We accept players from throughout the Bay Area, from Monterey to Sacramento, and from San Franciso to Sonoma.  

Our young program has acheived a great deal of sucess in a short time.  This past year, our flagship High School Elite White team won the prestigious Vail Lacrosse Tournament's B Division, and came in second in the Tahoe U19 Lacrosse Tournament (out of 14 teams from throughout the West Coast).  Our U15 Platinum/Rising Stars team won the 510 Tournament in December of 2011, winning by a combined 64-5 across 6 games.  Our U11 teams went a combined 19-1 this summer, winning two of the inaugural U11 Tournaments in Dallas and San Diego.  Our U15 team was one of only three teams from the Western United States to qualify for the US Lacrosse sponsored U15 National Tournament at ESPN's Wide World of Sports Complex, where they finished in the Top 16 teams in the country. Our U13 team finished third in the highly competitive Adrenaline Sonoma Youth Shootout.

We have a few important beliefs in our program:

1) We are committed to each one of our players:  We make sure our players each have the opportunity to gain from the program.  Our program is not about a few 'star' players (who often happen to the sons of the coaches of the program).  Our goal (and the results if you ask our players from the last four seasons) is for the entire team to develop both as individuals and as players. 

2) Financial resources should not be a barrier to participation:  Last year alone we provided more than $25,000 in scholarships to deserving players and families.  

3) Organization and communucation are key to program success:  Our program is extremely well run.  Communications are frequent and clear, tournaments are a blast (ask about the Team Hospitality Tent!), and things just work here.

4) Our program is based on over a dozen experienced and successful high school and college coaches.  We are not a program designed around one or two 'stars' who spread themselves too thinly across many teams, and who have no track record of coaching.   We have a very deep bench of first rate coaches who understand the high school and college game from years of real experience. 

We want to give our players the chance to achieve their potential.  As Youth players, that means maximizing their chance to make the high school team.  In High School, it means exposing players to national competition and helping them get recruited to play lacrosse in college.  

We practice on the best lacrosse field in the state of California at Palo Alto High School. 

We have done this for many years, and the success of our program speaks for itself.   We are the only travel team in Northern California with this broad a selection of teams and tournaments . Players who join Team NorCal in the younger divisions can continue through their High School years and play with the best in the area year round.