Erin Pettinger begins her second term with the U.S. National Team program after serving as the head athletic trainer for the gold medal winning 2022 U.S. Men’s U20 Team at World Championship in Limerick, Ireland. Pettinger has been a member of the Georgetown University sports medicine staff since 2011, and now serves as the associate head athletics trainer for the Hoyas. Her primary sport responsibilities are men’s lacrosse and men's and women's golf, along with administrative duties.
Jay Cordone started at Yale University in 2005 and was promoted to head athletic trainer in 2016. During his tenure with the Bulldogs, Cordone has worked with football, men’s lacrosse, women’s volleyball, softball, and the men's and women’s swimming and diving teams. While now overseeing all day-to-day operations of the athletic training department, he continues to serve as head athletic trainer for Yale’s football and men’s lacrosse teams.
Dr. Logan is a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon specializing in complex knee and shoulder surgery at Colorado Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Denver. As a former physical therapist and personal trainer, Logan provides distinct expertise in sports injury, prevention, surgical management, and recovery. She began her career working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, before moving to sports-medicine-focused clinics. Logan served as the Premier Lacrosse League’s inaugural medical director and head physician, and is also a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams.
Jake Henhawk, an advisor to the National Lacrosse League’s Halifax Thunderbirds, worked with head coach Regy 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.
Joe 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.
Brian 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.
Roy 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.
National Teams USA Men
USA as underdog? That's as it always has been in box lacrosse, the provenance of our neighbors to the north.
College Women
Alice Ripper spent four years at the University of Exeter in England before coming across the pond.
National Teams USA Women
No matter the outcome, history will be made in Utica, N.Y. The inaugural World Lacrosse Women's Box Championship begins Friday night.