Black Bear Lacrosse Club is excited to announce our round 2 tryouts for our Boys 2024-2025 Travel Club Teams.

Tryouts will be held at
Perkiomen Valley High School’s Baseball Turf Field located at 509 Gravel Pike in Collegeville PA

Round 2 Tryout Dates and Times

Monday July 22nd  7:30pm-9:00pm

  • Cub Program for boys entering 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade on the Baseball turf field.

Monday July 22nd  7:30pm-9:00pm

  • 2032 (boys entering 5th grade) and 2031 (boys entering 6th grade) on the Baseball turf field.

Wednesday July 24th  5:30pm-7:00pm

  • 2028(boys entering 9th grade), 2027 (boys entering 10th grade), 2026 (boys entering 11th grade) on the Baseball turf field.

Wednesday July 24th  7:30pm-9:00pm

  • 2029 (boys entering 8th grade) and 2030 (boys entering 7th grade) on the Baseball turf field.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR BLACK BEAR'S ROUND 2 TRYOUTS

QUALITY COACHING! 
What separates Black Bear from other clubs is the quality coaches within our program. We currently have TWO College Head Coaches, TWO College Assistant Coaches, FOUR Current High School Head Coaches, and FIVE former High School Assistant/Varsity Coaches on our coaching staff.

Black Bear offers families and players what they desire most:

Passionate, Enthusiastic, Knowledgeable Coaches who are from the local community and care about developing young men of high character and better lacrosse players.

We have a Passion to SERVE our Local Lacrosse Community and help athletes excel at life and lacrosse!

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) 

  • Assistant Coach Kyle Derrickson (Former defensemen at University of Vermont)

  • Brendan Smith (Current defensemen at Hood College)

  • Chad Pulaski (Current Spring Ford Youth Coach)

  • Tyler Diffenderfer (Current Midfielder Pennsylvania College of Technology)

  • Mason Barndt (Current Attack Arcadia University)

  • Connor Macklin (Current Attack Arcadia University)

  • Wyatt Stemler Youth Goaltender Coach (Current Goalie Capital University)

Black Bear Middle School Program (5th to 8th Grades): 

2032 Black Bear Team Coaches

  • Grady Wise (Current Varsity Head Coach Boyertown High School)

  • AJ Woytko (Current Varsity Assistant at Governor Mifflin High School)

  • Aric Dupell (Current Varsity Assistant at Governor Mifflin High School)

2031 Black Bear Team Coaches

  • Head Coach Sam Romania (Current Head JV Coach at Perkiomen Valley High School)

  • Ryan Candelori (Current Assistant Coach at Souderton High School)

  • Drew Donato (Current Defenseman Roanoke College)

  • Wyatt Stemler Youth Goaltender Coach (Current Goalie Capital University)

2030 Black Bear Team Coaches

  • Head Coach Bryan Churchey (Current Varsity Head Coach Perkiomen Valley High School) 

  • Assistant Coach Bob Capozzoli (Current Varsity Defensive Coordinator and Head JV Coach at Upper Darby High School)

  • Assistant Coach Peter Hewitt (Current Assistant Coach Archbishop Carroll HS) 

  • Assistant Coach PJ Hewitt (former Midfielder at Cabrini)

  • Wyatt Stemler Youth Goaltender Coach (Current Goalie Capital University)

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 defensemen at Seton Hill University)

  • Wyatt Stemler Youth Goaltender Coach (Current Goalie Capital University)

Black Bear High School Program (9th to 11th Grades): 

  • Recruiting Director and 2025 Associate Coach Kyle Gardner (Current Head Men's Lacrosse Coach Neumann University) 

  • 2025 Assistant Coach Blase Cesarone (Current Head Coach at Gwynedd-Mercy University)

  • Black Bear High School Program Director, and Co-Recruiting director Bryan Churchey (Current Head Varsity Coach at Perkiomen Valley HS) 

  • 2025 Head Coach Austin Mutter (Current Assistant Coach at Gwynedd-Mercy University)

  • 2025 Assistant Coach Shawn Dickey (Current Varsity Offensive Coordinator at Phoenixville HS)

  • 2025 Defensive Coordinator Collin Sloat (Former Varsity coach at Forsyth High School in GA and Current 8th Grade Coach at Spring Ford Middle School)

  • 2026 Associate Head Coach Jake Miller (Former defensemen at Misericordia University)

  • 2026 Assistant Coach Jack Scaliti (Current attackmen at Stevenson University)

  • 2026 Assistant Coach Justin Wescoat (Current midfielder at Bellarmine University)

  • 2027 Head Coach Nick Marren (Current Varsity Defensive Coordinator at Perkiomen Valley High School)

  • 2027 Assistant Justin Lyle (Current defensive coordinator at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School)

  • Face Off Coach Brody Borkowski (Current FO Pennsylvania College of Technology)

  • 2028 Head Coach Bryan Churchey (Current Head Coach Perkiomen Valley HS)

  • 2028 Associate Head Coach Mike Orlando (Former Head Coach Springfield-Delco Youth)

  • 2028 Assistant Coach Nick Steele (Former Midfielder Post University)

  • 2028 Assistant Coach Cole Kleger (Current Defenseman St. Mary’s College of Maryland)