CARL NEASE - Email
U.S. Naval Academy ’92
Midfield

A native of Richmond, Coach Nease graduated in 1987 from Collegiate School, and was a member of the Hall of Fame 1987 State Championship team. He played collegiately at the U. S. Naval Academy, and graduated in 1992. He has coached as a graduate assistant at the U.S. Naval Academy, and as an assistant at the Naval Academy Prep School.  Locally he has coached at Collegiate and Trinity High Schools.

In 2012 he invited a college coach to attend a game to watch a player who was under the radar.  While the coach liked the player, he commented that the lacrosse was way behind other areas in regards to game strategy, fundamentals, and talent.  This triggered Coach Nease to do something to elevate the area's game.  He started teaching a group of 4th and 5th graders from various schools the fundamentals.  The group grew quickly and by the Fall the young guns jumped into travel lacrosse.  Within two years he sold his regular business to feed his passion, and started the Next Level Greyhounds - now Team 91 Virginia.

"I am committed to building the lacrosse culture in Central Virginia to a point where all of our local high schools compete alongside teams from Baltimore and other hot beds of lacrosse.  I do not focus on any specific school(s), like other programs, because I know when every school improves the area benefits."

DAVE DALY - Email

Molloy College '05

Defense

Hailing from Hicksville, NY, Coach Daly played collegiately at Molloy College where he was a two-time Team Captain, two-time Academic All-Conference, and a three-time All-NYCAC player.  He previously assisted at Guilford College, Randolph-Macon College.  He has coached at Deep Run, Trinity Episcopal, and is currently the Head Coach at Glen Allen High School.

Coach Daly has two young sons who are fantastic soccer players, but his passion lies in the game that gave so much to him.  As a lacrosse coach in Virginia he sees the need to elevate the level of play.  He often talks about growing up on Long Island and seeing over 100 players fighting for a spot on the local rec team.

"I grew up in an area where if a player was late for practice twice he was replaced by another player of equal skill who was punctual.  There were so many qualified players that you had to be on your A-game all the time.  Virginia is not there yet.  The athletes are here, but their knowledge of the game lags the hotbeds of the game.  I am committed to change that.  I envision a time in the near future where athletes in our area refer to themselves as lacrosse players first, and football, wrestling, or basketball players second."

RICHMOND:

Charles Ayers (VMI), Jordan Cole (US Military Academy), Jace Cornell (Randolph College), Pete Grimm (US Naval Academy), Ward Hackett (US Naval Academy), Mike Higgs (Hood), Mickey Hofmeister (Univ. of Richmond and VMI), Rob Horne (Univ. of Richmond), James Ireland (UVA), Tyler Kamide (US Military Academy), Trey Kawugule (Guilford), Michael Lynch (Connecticut College), Dave Lyness (Gettysburg), Tim Lindenbaum (VMI), Taylor Moorman (Lynchburg), Joe Parker (Salisbury), Hunter Price (Randolph-Macon), Bobby Pollicino (Washington College), Pat Regan (), Scout Ripley (VMI), Terrell Sands (High Point), Paul Schroder (Villanova), Charles Smith (Ohio State), Josh Tidwell (Salisbury), Matt Ward (Mercyhurst), Dave Washo (Penn State), Darren Wilhite (Guilford), Dylan Zook (Hood)

COACH ACCOLADES:

National Championships: 5

All-Americans - 3

All-Conferences - 11

School Hall of Fames - 4