Day Camp Directors

Fairfield County Day Camp Directors

With Blue Chip 225 Summer 2009 Camp comes the combination of two outstanding lacrosse mentors: Ted Spencer and Peter Lasagna.

Coach Spencer has a long career at all levels of lacrosse coaching at the collegiate level for the past 18 years including stints at Yale and Brown Universities.

Ted Spencer was the Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach at Fairfield University for the past thirteen years before retiring in July of 2008.

During his coaching tenure at Fairfield he boasts seven Championships, three MAAC Championships (1996, 1997, 1998), two ECAC Post-Season Tournament Championships (1998, 1999), and two GWLL Crowns (2002, 2005). In 2002 and 2005 Spencer’s teams made appearances in the NCAA Tournament and finished with a Top 15 ranking in Division I Lacrosse.

Three times Spencer was honored as “Coach of the Year” by his league, MAAC (1996), and GWLL (2002, 2005).

In 2001, a panel of Division I head coaches selected Spencer to coach the prestigious USILA North/South All-Star game which showcases the country’s top Division I seniors. Major League Lacrosse also honored him for being among a select few to have made significant contributions to the development of lacrosse in Connecticut.

Prior to his time at Fairfield, Spencer held assistant coaching positions at Brown and Yale. He played for UMass-Amherst, where he stood out as a long-pole defensive midfielder before graduating in 1985.

With all his accolades Spencer’s greatest achievement is that he is a Cancer Survivor and a proud father of three beautiful children Ryan-Elizabeth (13), Ben (11), and Devin (10) and husband to his lovely wife and partner Denise.

In 2009 Peter Lasagna enters his ninth 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, Lasagna has accumulated a 48-60 record overall 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 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 his 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.

In 2002, Lasagna was inducted into the New England Lacrosse Hall of Fame.