Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 7/9/23
Black Bear Lacrosse Club is excited to announce its round 1 and 2 tryouts for its Boys 2023-2024 Travel Club Teams. Tryouts will be held at Perkiomen Valley High School’s Turf Fields located at 509 Gravel Pike in Collegeville PA
Round 1 Tryout Dates and Times
- Cub Program (boys entering grades 2nd-4th for the 23-24 school year) 6:00pm-7:30pm
- 2030 (boys entering 6th grade) and 2031 (boys entering 5th grade)
8:00pm-9:30pm
Monday July 24th 6:00pm-9:30pm:
- 2025 (boys entering 11th grade) and 2026 (boys entering 10th grade) 6:00pm-7:30pm
- 2027 (boys entering 9th grade) 8:00pm-9:30pm
Tuesday July 25th 6:00pm-7:30pm
- 2028 (boys entering 8th grade) and 2029 (boys entering 7th grade)
6:00pm-7:30pm
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR BLACK BEAR’S ROUND 1 TRYOUTS
Round 2 Tryout Dates and Times
Sunday July 30th 3:00PM-4:30PM
- Cub Program for boys entering 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade on the Baseball turf field.
Sunday July 30th 5:00PM-6:30PM
- 2030 (boys entering 6th grade) and 2031 (boys entering 5th grade) on the Baseball turf field.
Sunday July 31th 6:00PM-9:30PM
- 2025 and 2026 6:00pm-7:30pm (Football turf field)
- 2027 8:00pm-9:30pm (Football turf field)
- 2028 and 2029 6:00pm-7:30pm (Baseball turf field)
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR BLACK BEAR’S ROUND 2 TRYOUTS
QUALITY COACHING!
Black Bear has TWO College Head Coaches, TWO College Assistant Coaches, THREE Current High School Head Coaches, and FIVE former High School Assistant/Varsity Coaches on its coaching staff.
WHO WILL BE COACHING YOUR SON?
Black Bear Cubs Program (2nd to 4th Grades)
- Director Ben Carville (Former Head Coach Owen J. Roberts HS)
- Head assistant Mike Giandonato (Former Assistant Coach at Owen J Roberts HS)
- Nick Steele (Midfielder Post University)
- Brendan Smith (current defensemen at Hood College)
- Chad Pulaski (current Spring Ford Youth Coach)
Black Bear Middle School Program (5th to 8th Grades):
2031 Black Bear Team Coaches
- Head Coach Sam Romania (Assistant Varsity Coach at Perkiomen Valley High School)
- Assistant Coach Bob Capozzoli (Current Varsity Defensive Coordinator and Head JV Coach at Upper Darby High School
2030 Black Bear Team Coaches
- Head Coach Grady Wise (Current Varsity Head Coach Boyertown HS)
- Assistant Coach Peter Hewitt (Assistant Coach Archbishop Carroll HS)
- Assistant Coach PJ Hewitt (former Midfielder at Cabrini)
2029 Black Bear Team Coaches
- Head Coach Kevin Mo (Current Varsity Head Coach at Owen J Roberts High School)
- Assistant Coach Pat Jenkins (former varsity offensive coordinator at Perkiomen Valley High School)
- Assistant Coach Aidan Owen (former defenseman at Seton Hill University)
2028 Black Bear Team Coaches
- Head Coach Mike Orlando (former Head Coach Springfield-Delco Youth)
- Assistant Coach Kyle Derrickson (former defensemen at University of Vermont)
- Assistant Coach Cole Metzger (former goaltender at University of Immaculata)
Black Bear High School Program (9th to 11th Grades):
- Recruiting Director and 2025 Associate Coach Kyle Gardner (Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Neumann University)
- 2025 Assistant Coach Blase Cesarone (Head Coach at Gwynedd-Mercy University)
- Black Bear High School Program Director, and Co-Recruiting director Bryan Churchey (Head Varsity Coach at Perkiomen Valley HS)
- High School Assistant Coach Austin Mutter (Assistant Coach at Gwynedd-Mercy University)
- 2026 Associate Head Coach Jake Miller (Current defensemen at Misericordia University)
- 2026 Assistant Coach Jack Scaliti (Current attackmen at Stevenson)
- 2025 Defensive Coordinator Collin Sloat (former Varsity coach at Forsyth High School in GA)
- 2027 Assistant Coach Nick Teets (current attackmen at Monmouth University)
- 2027 Assistant Coach Logan Westlake (current defensemen at Penn Technological College)
