TSL Head Coach Jon Lantzy
Jon Lantzy, a former professional indoor player with head coaching experience on the college level, is in his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Duke men’s lacrosse program. Currently Coach Lantzy assists in all aspects of the Duke University lacrosse program with direct responsibilities working with the midfielders, defense, face-off personnel. He also serves as the team’s recruiting coordinator. In 2005 the Blue Devils advanced to the finals of the NCAA Championship Tournament. Lantzy also currently is the co-director of the Duke Evening Lacrosse Camp and helps direct the Duke Lacrosse Overnight Camp and the Duke Tournament of Champions Team Camp. Coach Lantzy is also an Executive Director of Rival Lacrosse, the premiere youth lacrosse organization serving the Durham/Chapel Communities. He also served as the TALL instructional director for the fall of 2004.
Lantzy served as the head coach at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, N.C., from 1998-01. While at St. Andrews, he coached three USILA All-America selections and 17 All-Deep South Conference picks. Prior to his four-year stint at St. Andrews, Lantzy was an assistant coach at Canisius College for five seasons. A 1991 graduate of Michigan State University, Lantzy was a four-year starter for the Spartans in lacrosse. He closed his career ranking 14th on the Spartan all-time scoring list and was a four-time all-league choice. Lantzy helped Michigan State to a pair of national tournament berths in 1989 and 1991 and was honored as one of 25 players named to the All-Time Spartan varsity lacrosse team. Lantzy, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., also played professional lacrosse in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League for the Detroit Turbos and the Buffalo Bandits. Lantzy was with the Turbos during the 1991-92 and 1993-94 seasons and helped the Bandits to an undefeated season and the world championship in 1992-93.
Lantzy, 36, is married to the former Suzanne Row of Marion, Ohio, and the couple has one daughter, Katherine, born June 11, 2002.
Assistant Coach Mike Cappelletti
Mike Cappelletti returns to North Carolina after graduating from Denison University in the spring of 2005. Despite being only 23 years old, Cappelletti has already accumulated a vast amount of coaching experience over the past five years, and hopes to help become a part of North Carolina lacrosse again, now that he is home.
A 2000 graduate of Jordan High School in Durham, Cappelletti was a three-time All-Conference and two-time All-State player. He led the state in scoring his senior season, and left Jordan with many scoring records, highlighted by a 15-point performance in a single game his senior year. From Jordan, Cappelletti took a one-year Post Graduate study at the Westminster School, located in Simsbury, Connecticut.
During his four-year college tenure, Cappelletti focused on gaining experience coaching during both his spring and summer breaks. He has assisted at Jordan High School several times, and also spent his junior year spring semester as an assistant at Durham Academy. He worked mostly with the offense, extra-man offense, and goalies, and had the opportunity to learn from head coach Joe Seivold during his last season at the school. This past spring, he was the offensive co-ordinator for the 2006 state championship East Chapel Hill High varsity team.
Cappelletti will be in his second full season with TSL, working mostly with the goalkeepers and offense. He is about to head back to school to gain his teaching certification, and is excited to be involved, again, in North Carolina High School lacrosse.
Bob Cappelletti: Director, Fusion Lacrosse - President, Triangle Select Lacrosse
Bob Cappelletti began playing lacrosse in the wooden stick era in Connecticut, playing his high school lacrosse for New England Prep, and perennial national powerhouse, Loomis Chaffee. In college he started all three years at Fairfield University, playing both midfield and close defense. In his senior year, he was elected captain by his teammates, a season in which he also earned defensive player of the year honors. His post-collegiate career included playing for the Deerfield Valley Lacrosse Club, as well as various alumni games, the last of which he played in 2003. He served as head coach of boy’s varsity lacrosse at C.E. Jordan High School from 1997 until 2003, taking a year off before returning to high school lacrosse as the assistant varsity coach at East Chapel Hill High School, chief of his duties including those of defensive coordinator. During those two seasons, East Chapel Hill went 34-6, had a 3.92 goals against average, appeared in the state championship game each year, winning it all in 2006. In the fall of 2002, along with then Durham Academy coach Joey Seivold, he founded Triangle Select Lacrosse, and continues to serve as it’s president and driving force, to this day.