BREAKERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Coach
- 2025 Blue Assistant Coach
Coach Austin Dews played high school lacrosse at Newtown high school in Owings Mills and was a college lacrosse player at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. At Elizabethtown, Coach Dews won two conference championships and made two NCAA tournament appearances. After college, Dews helped with lacrosse clinics for US lacrosse Sankofa group and previously coached for Looneys lacrosse club. Currently, he is an assistant coach for the Fresh/Soph team at Loyola Blakefield.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Head
- 2026 Orange Head Coach
- Assistant Coach at Boys Latin
Coach Holback is the current Assistant Coach at Boys Latin and the former Head Coach of Pikesville High School. He played lacrosse at Missouri Valley College and on the Israel World Team in the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship tournament. Coach Holback graduated from Beth Tfiloh Community School in 2010.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Coach
- 2027 Assistant Coach
Coach Tizard is a Baltimore native and a graduate of Loyola University Maryland. He grew up playing lacrosse with Cockeysville and then transitioned to club lacrosse with Crabs and Greene Turtle while attending Loyola Blakefield where he was a 10x varsity athlete. Unfortunately, his college career was cut short due to injury. Prior to Breakers, he coached the Cockeysville Rec Council's Midget and Lightning teams in 2021 and 2022 leading both teams to 8-2 records, respectively. In addition, he conducts specialized development sessions in a one-on-one platform during the summer months. He resides in Roland Park with his wife, Caroline, and mini dachshund, Rosie.
Coach Ogle has been Head Varsity Coach at Archbishop Curley since 2014. Prior to becoming the head coach, he helped Curley win back-to-back championships in 2007 and 2008 as the team's offensive coordinator, then again in 2019 as Head Coach. Coach Ogle coached the Harford Mavericks Lacrosse Club from 2008-2018. He made two appearances in the NCAA Playoffs in 1998 and 1999 as a midfielder at UMBC and helped the team earn a national top ten ranking. Chris is a 1997 graduate of Fallston High School where he was a three-year varsity starter and earned All-County Lacrosse honors. In addition to coaching, Chris has taught Social Studies at Curley and is currently the Social Studies Department Chair.
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations
- Recruiting Director
Growing up in Rochester, New York, Colby was around lacrosse at a very young age learning about the game from some of the best lacrosse minds and playing at some of the highest levels of lacrosse. As a young player, Colby was able to attend games at Irondequoit High School and see players such as Joe Walters play, while being a part of a program that has produced alumni legends such as Jeff Long (Navy and Team USA), Paul Cantabene (MLL Baltimore Bayhawks), Andrew Whipple (Maryland), and Joe Walters (Maryland and Team USA). Irondequoit lacrosse teams have won 28 championship titles and have produced 30 High School All-Americans, plus a long list of college lacrosse coaches.
Over the span of his youth and high school playing career, Coach Colby had the opportunity to play in the Irondequoit youth program and study the game under some of most knowledgeable coaches in lacrosse. These influences helped him become a three-year starter at Irondequoit High School before playing Division I lacrosse at Canisius College.
At Canisius, Coach Colby was a member of the 2012 MAAC Championship team that competed in the 2012 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament. Coach Wehner left Canisius College with a bachelor degree in English and a Masters in Sports Administration.
Following college, Coach Colby served as an intern for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and soon became the Director of Championships for the MAAC. As a Director of Championships at the MAAC, Colby oversaw daily operations for all intercollegiate sports and was the Championship Director for his respective sports, including Cross Country, Field Hockey, Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Water Polo, Swimming and Diving, Men's Lacrosse, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Rowing and Track and Field.
With a goal to work to work with young athletes, Colby was given the opportunity to work at Rider University as the Coordinator of Athletic Events and Equipment Room Manager. At Rider, Colby managed all the intercollegiate events at Rider University, overseeing all student worker event staff to coordinate the events from start to finish.
Coach Colby lives in Baltimore with his girlfriend and his dog Brodie.
Job Titles:
- 2025 Blue Assistant Coach
Job Titles:
- 2026 Orange Assistant Coach
Tyler Ferrara 2026 Orange Assistant Coach Played at Rosemont College, 3X All-CSAC, Coached with MDX, Current Assistant Coach at Friends School of Baltimore, Coached at Havre de Grace High School, Current Varsity Assistant at Patterson Mills High School
CW played high school lacrosse at IMG Academy. He then played at Mount St. Mary's University for 2 years before transferring to McDaniel college. CW currently plays LSM and close defense at McDaniel.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- 2026 White Head Coach
Coach Bosworth is a graduate of Westminster HS, where he made a lacrosse state championship appearance in his senior year. At UMBC, he joined the UMBC Men's Club Lacrosse team, serving as president for three years and captain for two years, leading the team to two national tournament appearances with a 30-12 combined record. In his first year as president of the club, he was named UMBC's Sports Club Council Officer of the Year, turning a .500 team into a national championship contender. Coach Bosworth has previously coached at Gamber Smallwood Rec and 3d Mid-Atlantic Lacrosse Club.
Jay Bond was invited to join the Breakers Lacrosse Club Coaching Staff in July 2022. Bond brings over forty years of lacrosse coaching and playing experience to the Breakers Lacrosse Club. He owes his knowledge of the game to having been exposed to some of the greatest coaches in lacrosse history. Bond was introduced to the game by his brother, Frank Bond Jr., who was the first black lacrosse player recruited by Johns Hopkins in 1969. However, it was Tom Lamonica, his JV coach at Friends School that laid the foundation for his understanding of the game. As a varsity attackman, Bond helped the Quakers earn an MSA "B" Conference Championship over Mt. St. Joseph High School in 1978 under the leadership of head coach Carl Ortman, and offensive coordinator Downey McCarty. It was that year that Bond was convinced by guest lecturer at practice Sheldon Freed to pick up a long pole and switch to defense. During the summer of '78, Bond made the transition to defense while playing in the Heroes Summer League for a team coached by former University of Baltimore coach Joe Hutchins and Dave Cottle. Following his brother to Hopkins, Bond walked on to the Blue Jay squad where he played for freshmen coach Howdy Myers, often considered the father of modern lacrosse. Finally earning a spot on the varsity roster his senior year, Bond was exposed to the fine coaching of Henry Ciccarone, Fred Smith, and Joe Cowan. After graduating from Hopkins in 1982, Bond worked at JHU in the admissions office where he had the opportunity to coach a rec team with his boss and former Hopkins face-off specialist Jerry Schnydman. In 1986, Bond began his teaching career at the St. Paul's School for Boys in Brooklandville, MD. Behind the leadership of head coach Mitch Whitely, offensive coordinator Rick Brocato, and defensive coordinator Jay Bond combined to help the Crusaders to back to back MSA "A" Conference Championships in 1991 and 1992. The un-defeated 1992 team was voted #1 High School team in the country. In 1995, Bond began teaching and coaching in the Howard County Public School System and in 1997 became the head coach at the newly opened River Hill High School. With assistant coaches John Kenworthy and J.J. Pearl, the Hawks made it to the Regional Finals in the 2000 MPSSAA Tournament. Passing the head coaching job to current Hawks head coach Keith Gonsouland, Bond began to explore the girl's game as his daughter picked up the sport. Bond returned to coaching in 2003 as the head coach of the River Hill Girls Lacrosse Team and was named Coach of the Year by the Washington Post in 2004. After thirteen years coaching girls, Bond returned to the boy's game in 2017 and looks forward to sharing his knowledge with the Breakers Lacrosse Club.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- 2025 Naptown Head Coach
Coach Schwartz is an innovative coach of several select-level teams in lacrosse, football, and soccer. Over the past 25+ years, he has coached championship youth and high school lacrosse teams in Michigan, Maryland, and California. He began his playing career at Detroit Catholic Central where he achieved All-League, All-State, and All-Midwest honors in lacrosse in addition to similar honors and being named a second-team, Catholic League All-American in football before being recruited to play both sports at Princeton University. Jeff was a 4-year Letterman as a defenseman and LSM at Princeton under legendary coach Bill Tierney. Jeff was also a multi-year All League selection and co-captain on 2-time Southern California club championship team.
Coach Bowman is a 1999 graduate and 3 time All-County athlete from Kenwood High Scho ol. At Villa Julie College, he played lacrosse for the ECAC champions hip team and earned the Golden Mustang Award. and Golden Mustang Award. He previously coached Sparrows Point HS as a Varsity Assistant, helping them to a 2006 Regional Championship appearance, a 2007 Regional Champions hip, and State Semi-Finalist. As JV Head Coach from 2008 to 2012, he led the team to 2 county championships. Coach Bowman is in his 3rd season with the breakers.
Job Titles:
- Operations Coordinator / Recruiting Coordinator
Kathy joined the Breakers Program in 2016 and is responsible for program communications, registrations, event coordination and customer care. She oversees the Academic Planning Committee and coordinates Breakers Recruiting program. Kathy has a son, Hudson who plays on the Breakers 2023 Blue team. In addition she has a daughter who plays at Maryland and a son that swims for Stevenson.
Job Titles:
- 2026 Blue Assistant Coach
Coach Vieheller was a four-year starter as a goalie at Mount St. Mary's University. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School and is a former Lax Factory coach.
Job Titles:
- 2025 Blue Assistant Coach
Michael Hofstedt is from Severna Park, MD. He attended Severna Park High School where he played lacrosse, soccer, and ran indoor track. Following his high school career, Michael chose to attend Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA where he majored in Engineering with a double concentration in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering. At Elizabethtown College, Michael was a member of the lacrosse team for all 4 years where he played LSM and Defense. Michael was elected as a team captain during his senior year at Elizabethtown. During his time, the Blue Jays appeared in 3 conference finals while winning 2 in his Junior and Senior year. These were not only Elizabethtown's first conference titles in lacrosse but also gave the Jays their first ever NCAA appearances where they secured their first NCAA tournament wins. Following graduation Michael took a full time job in controls engineering in the DMV area. Additionally he has, since graduating, coached at his alma mater Severna Park High School as a defensive coordinator as well as for Looney's Club Lacrosse.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Program Manager & 2028 / 29 Head Coach
Coach Matthews has been in the sport of lacrosse as a player since the age of 12 and as a coach for the past 22 years. He is a graduate of Hammond High School in Columbia, MD, and completed undergraduate studies in Sports Management at Limestone University in Gaffney, SC where he was a 2x All-Conference, 2x All American Midfielder, Captain of the 2000 National Championship Team, 2001 NCAA DII National Championship Runner-up Assistant Head Coach Offensive Coordinator, and 2x Hall of Fame Inductee. After coaching at his alma mater, he reunited with his college head coach Mike Cerino at Washington & Lee University where he took over as the Assistant Coach Offensive Coordinator, and Coordinator for Underrepresented Students, where he coached the offense to a 2002 ODAC Tournament Championship and NCAA DIII Semi-Final appearance. From Washington & Lee University, he pioneered the Men's and Women's lacrosse programs at Seton Ha ll Universit y in Greensburg, PA as Head Lacrosse Coach. After returning to MD, Matthews took over as the Head Lacrosse coach at the Friends School in Baltimore where he taught Physical Education and coached football and wrestling for 7 years. During this time he started in the US Lacrosse Coaches Education Program, becoming one of their top clinicians and curriculum contributor s. He is a founding coach of ROCK Lacrosse Club where he directed the middle school grades designing curriculum, workouts, and practice plans. Coach Matthews is currently a Physical Education teacher at the St. Paul's School. He has dedicated his coaching career to helping athletes reach their goals in a developmentally progressive way that helps build character and valuable life skills that transcend the sport of lacrosse.
Job Titles:
- 2025 Naptown Assistant Coach
Strider played lacrosse at Calvert Hall (1992-1995), Brown (1996-1999), and on the US U-19 team (1996).
Job Titles:
- 2026 Orange Assistant Coach
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Coach
- 2028 / 29 Assistant Coach
Vince grew up in Westminster, MD where he got started as a Goalie with the Gamber Rec Lacrosse program at a young age. During Middle and High School, Vince played at Loyola Blakefield through the Varsity level before bringing his career to the collegiate level at Christopher Newport University (CNU), where he studied Molecular Biology and Chemistry. During his final years at CNU, Vince led the NCLL DII Lacrosse program as Team Captain and Head Coach to its first ever Blue Ridge Conference Championship appearance. Since finishing college, Vince has coached at New Town High School (Owings Mills, MD), Westminster High School (Westminster, MD), and individual goalie sessions for all age groups. Since finishing college, Vince has earned a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has grown a career in medical research at Johns Hopkins and is currently working at Shock Trauma (University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore) with the Center for Shock, Trauma, and Anesthesiology Research (STAR). Outside of lacrosse, Vince enjoys playing soccer, racquetball, and running, including having completed five marathons and a 49-day run across the country (San Francisco, CA to Baltimore, MD) with the 4K for Cancer Program of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults (now "The Ulman Foundation"). Vince is excited to join the Breakers Coaching Staff in 2022 and looks forward to developing young players into teammates both on and off the field.
Job Titles:
- 2025 Naptown Assistant Coach
Vinny is a Broadneck Highschool Grad, 3x first team all county, 2x All state, Usa All american in highschool. He is a Faceoff guy at York college of PA (2x USILA team of the week) where he earned a 2x First team all conference and USILA Honorable mention all American (2022). Vinny has led the team in Groundballs the last 2 seasons.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- 2025 Blue Head Coach
Coach Dearborn is a seasoned lacrosse coach with multiple years of experience from the clinic to college level. He was the JV Head Coach at Severna Park High School and is currently Head Coach with the Loyola Blakefield Frosh Team. Coach Dearborn is a faculty member at Towson University and enjoys spending time exploring Baltimore City with his wife Catherine, son Walter Foley, and dog Myrtle Turtle.