Coaching Staff
Peter Lasagna Office: (207) 786-8263 E-mail: plasagna@bates.edu
In 2012 Peter Lasagna enters his 12th season as head coach of men’s lacrosse at Bates College, having led the Bobcats to three appearances in the NESCAC Championship. Lasagna was named NESCAC Men’s Lacrosse Coach of the Year in 2005.
Only the third head lacrosse coach ever at Bates, under Lasagna’s leadership three Bates players have been named USILA All-Americans, and a fourth went on to play for the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse.
A 1982 graduate of Brown University, Lasagna came to Bates after 18 years of coaching the Bears at his alma mater, including the last eight as head coach.
Lasagna compiled a 65-51 record as the Bears’ head coach, 30-18 in Ivy League games. Brown went to three NCAA Division I championship tournaments during Lasagna’s tenure, including an appearance in the national semifinals in 1994 and the quarterfinals in 1995. Lasagna was named Division I Coach of the Year by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association that year. He was also named Division I Coach of the Year by the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association in both 1994 and 1995.
Lasagna won more NCAA playoff games at Brown than any other Brown head coach.
A well-known voice in the collegiate lacrosse community, Lasagna has also been the back-page columnist for the award-winning magazine Inside Lacrosse since 2001. He has served as master of ceremonies at two US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association’s coaches’ conventions.
In 2002, Lasagna was inducted into the New England Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and in 2011 he was inducted into the Greater Rochester (N.Y.) Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
ASSISTANT COACH LARS KEIL
A 2005 graduate of Springfield College, Lars Keil began his first year as a Bates assistant coach in the 2011-12 academic year. Keil came to Bates from Endicott College, where he helped the Gulls win their conference title and advance to the NCAA Division III Championship tournament in 2010 and 2011.
ASSISTANT COACH WILL AKIE
Will Akie is a 2008 graduate of Bates College, where he earned four varsity letters. As a midfielder, Akie took faceoffs and was one of the top ground ball retrievers in his senior season.