SPARKS, Md. — Head coach Regy Thorpe has announced the staff for the 2024 U.S. Men’s Box National Team.
The U.S. men’s and women’s box teams will compete in the World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, N.Y. in September 2024. The U.S. men’s team has captured the bronze medal at the previous five world championships, including in 2019 under Thorpe’s leadership, while this is the first time a world championship will be contested for women’s box lacrosse.
Jake Henhawk will serve as the team manager for the U.S. men’s box team, while Roy Colsey, Brian Hobart and Joe Smith will be assistant coaches and Nick Coyne will be the equipment manager.
The player selection process for the 2024 U.S. box men’s box team will begin with a Player ID Camp later this month (May 21) in Utica, N.Y., followed by a training camp in September.
Henhawk, an advisor to the National Lacrosse League’s Halifax Thunderbirds, worked with Thorpe in an unofficial capacity assisting with player identification for the 2019 U.S. men’s box team. Since 2013, Henhawk has served as the general manager of the Six Nations Arrows and he has previous front office experience with the NLL’s New York Riptide and Rochester Knighthawks.
Colsey, a National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, is one of the top Americans to ever play box lacrosse. The former Syracuse star won three Major League Lacrosse championships in field lacrosse and played nine years in the National Lacrosse League, scoring more than 600 points in his pro box career. Colsey, the head boys’ lacrosse coach at Ridgefield (Conn.) High School, played for the U.S. men’s U19 team in 1992, the U.S. men’s senior team in 2006 and was on the U.S. team that upset Canada in box lacrosse in the 2002 Heritage Cup.
Hobart will be involved with the U.S. men’s box program for the third consecutive time. He was a scout in 2015 and the assistant manager for the 2019 team. A former assistant coach with the MLL’s Rochester Rattlers, Hobart has also served as a scout for the NLL’s Rochester Knighthawks. The head boys’ lacrosse coach at Penn Yan (N.Y.) Academy, Hobart was the head coach for the Elmira Renegades in the Professional Box Lacrosse Association.
Smith was a member of the U.S. box teams in 2011 and 2015 and enjoyed a successful pro lacrosse career after helping Towson reach the NCAA semifinals in 2001. Smith played for the MLL’s Rochester Rattlers for nearly a decade and won a league title in 2008. He also won NLL championships with both Rochester and Buffalo. A volunteer assistant on the 2019 U.S. staff, Smith has coached at the high school, collegiate and professional levels.
Coyne is the equipment manager for the NLL’s Panther City Lacrosse Club. He founded the Dallas Box Lacrosse League in 2014, helping to grow the sport in Texas, and tried out for the 2019 U.S. box team.
The U.S. box teams train and play using best-in-class products from Nike Lacrosse (apparel and footwear), DJO (sports bracing) and game-changing, high-performance equipment from Warrior.
In addition to these partners, Gatorade, MedStar Health, National Center for Safety Initiatives and Stryker are official sponsors of the U.S. national team program. Team training is also aided by products from Athletic Republic.
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