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Bill Glazier

Bill Glazier

Executive Director, Team NorCal

Phone: 650-814-3857

Executive Director Background

Bill Glazier is the Executive Director of Team NorCal.  He is responsible for hiring coaches, program development, player selection and development, and administration.  Through Team NorCal, he has coached more U13, U15, U17 and U19 travel teams than anyone in the Bay Area over the last 4 years.

He has run the Tomahawks Youth Lacrosse Club in Palo Alto as President since 2006.  Bill also founded the program and is the Director of Lacrosse for Palo Alto High School, which won the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Title in 2010 in its first year as a school lacrosse program.   

He played lacrosse as a kid in Upstate New York outside Buffalo on the Seneca Indian Reservation, where his Dad was the 'Medicine Man' for the Native American Six Nations Box Lacrosse team for many years.  He founded his High School Lacrosse team at Sweet Home High School in Amherst, NY, and started for 4 years on attack, winning All Western New York Honors, and played a bit in college at Harvard,  and afterwards here on the West Coast.  His wife forcibly retired him from the game years ago when he came home from a box lacrosse game covered in blood. He is, however, contemplating a return from retirement, against her wishes...

He lives in Palo Alto, with his wife Katherine, a lacrosse playing younger son Jonathan, and a baseball-addicted and football playing older son William.  He spends his days in the investment business for Redwood Ventures

Matt Skiba

Matt Skiba

Program Director, Team NorCal 2011 Head Coach U17 Blue, U15 Blue and U13 Blue

Phone: 415-852-0862

Coach Bio

Coach Skiba played Lacrosse at Santa Clara University for 3 seasons. A closed defender and long stick midfielder, Matt served as Co-Captain and President of the team in his Junior and Senior seasons. As one of only two Seniors on the 2007 roster, Matt helped lead a young Santa Clara squad to a Top 25 ranking, and defeat then Top 10 University of California and University of Texas. Matt has been active in the lacrosse community since graduating from Santa Clara in 2007 with a degree in American History. A regular participant in the Tahoe Men's Tournament in July, he has helped establish lacrosse at Stuart Hall for Boys in San Francisco. Serving as Director and Head Coach of the 15A and 13B division teams, Matt's early track record as a coach speaks for itself. In 2010 Matt had 9 player's selected to play for Team Nor Cal or Team Talon. In his first 3 seasons Matt has also led a program of just 50 players to the NCJLA playoffs. In addition to coaching, Matt assists the Stuart Hall for Boys athletic department and established his own fitness and conditioning business for teenage and youth athletes in San Francisco. He is a native of Connecticut and currently lives in San Francisco.


Max Motschwiller

Assistant Coach, U17 Blue and Program Coach, U15

Steve Harman

Assistant Coach, U17 White and Head Coach - U11 Bears

Joe Juter

Head Coach - U11 Quakes

Brick Markham

Head Coach - U17 Gold

Ralph Dahllof

Head Coach - U17 Gold

Jeff Eckenhoff

Head Coach - U15 Gold

 Jeff Eckenhoff grew up playing lacrosse in the bay area.  He earned All-American recognition in 2003 when he played for the Palo Alto Tomahawks.  He played at the collegiate level for four years at the University of Colorado at Boulder, starting for three of them.  After graduating, he played lacrosse for the ETP Redwings in Adelaide, South Australia, helping them make the playoffs in 2008 for the first time in 14 years.  As a coach, Jeff co-coached the Palo Alto Tomahawk Boys Varsity program to reach 3rd place in the Northern California Club Championship Tournament in 2009.  Jeff has also coached the boys Nor-Cal program for the last two years taking teams to tournaments in New York and Ohio.  Currently, Jeff is coaching the JV Boys Lacrosse program at Menlo School.

 
Jeff lives in San Jose, CA and works for a start-up company, Altos Research, focusing on real-time real estate market analytics.

Greg Mengis

Program Director, Team NorCal 2011, Head Coach U17 White, U15 Blue, U13 Gold

Phone: 510-468-1175

Coach Bio

Coach Mengis played Lacrosse at Santa Clara University for four years, earning Team Captain and Coaches Award honors.  He is a two-time WCLL All Star, and helped lead Santa Clara to the WCLL Final Four 3 of his 4 years.  Before tearing his ACL halfway through his senior year, Greg was ranked in the NCAA National top 10 in points as an attack man.  Greg has stayed active playing and coaching Lacrosse.  He has played a number of seasons with the Palo Alto Club Lacrosse team and has coached with both the  Diablo Scorpions and Palo Alto Tomahawks club teams.  Greg is also the Head Coach of the Los Altos High School Varsity Lacrosse team, and in 2010 he founded the Fremont Lacrosse Club to help youth in the Eastbay experience the fastest game on two feet.  
 
Gregs experience the past few years has extended to the travel team arena. He has coached the NorCal teams at the U13, U15, and U17 level.  Some highlights of these trips have been
-2009 U15 NorCal Gold, US Lacrosse National Festival in New York, 4-3 record
-2010 U15 NorCal Gold, US Lacrosse National Festival, 6-1 record, again triumphing over some strong east coast teams
-2010 U17 NorCal Frosh/Soph finished 2nd in the Tahoe High School Tournament.
-2010 U13 NorCal Gold, US Lacrosse National Festival in Ohio
-2010 U13 NorCal Gold, Palm Springs Desert Classic, 2nd place finish.  
 
As a coach, Gregs philosophy stresses a positive attitude, working as a team, and mastering the fundamentals.
 
Outside of coaching, Greg runs his own Real Estate Investment and Property Management business, and lives in Fremont with his wife Lisa.

Colin Mason

Head Coach - U15 Gold

Coach Mason played for the Tomahawks from '99-'05, earning All-American recognition in 2005.  He then moved on to Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo to play at the collegiate level where he started at attack during his four years, setting a school record for assists and earned 1st Team All WCLL honors in 2009 and 2010.  He led Cal Poly to back to back WCLL Championships in his final two seasons and was awarded 3rd Team All America and WCLL Offensive Player of the Year in his senior season.

Mason also served as captain of USA West squad in 2009, leading the team to undefeated showings in South Korea and Japan. 

Colin lives in San Francisco, CA and works for a start-up company, zozi.com.

Tom Brinley

Head Coach - U13 Blue

Phone: 808-221-3678