Paul Cantabene, a long-time assistant coach at the Division I level, enters his fourth season as head men's lacrosse coach at Villa Julie College.   This past Spring Cantabene put together the most impressive season of any Men's Lacrosse team in school history.  The Mustangs spent most of the year ranked in the top 25, getting as high as 11th in the nation.  Cantabene started the season off with a bang as Villa upset Courtland State (#3 in the nation and defending national champion) at home 10-9.  Courtland went on to lose to CAC opponent Salisbury University in the National Championship game at M&T Bank Stadium.

In the spring of 2006 Cantabene completed his second year at the helm of the Mustangs taking them to the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Championship. After playing Cabrini College in the PAC Finals, the team earned an ECAC bid and faced Kean University in the tournament semifinals. Defeating Kean, 15-6, the Mustangs advanced to the ECAC Finals and defeated Montclair State University, 15-8. VJC ended the season 10-8 overall and 8-2 in the PAC.  Three years ago Cantabene ended his second season with the University of Maryland's lacrosse program. Cantabene is a veteran lacrosse coach and player, having coached at Johns Hopkins University and Towson University and played at Loyola College.  He has been an all-star both in indoor and outdoor professional leagues.

In 2002, his first season at Maryland, Cantabene helped the Terps' offense to one of its most successful seasons in recent history. Two of his midfielders were named All-Americans while one of his players was named Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year and an honorable mention All-American.

Cantabene came to Maryland after serving as the offensive coordinator at Towson for four seasons. Cantabene was a key component in the Tigers' revival which saw them reach the 2001 NCAA semifinals with the highest scoring offense in the nation. He joined the Towson staff under the tutelage of head coach Tony Seaman, whom he had worked with at Johns Hopkins from 1996-98. Prior to his time at Towson, Cantabene served as the midfield coach for the Blue Jays. He helped Hopkins compile a 41-15 record and NCAA Tournament berths in each of the three seasons he spent on Charles Street.

He began his coaching career at the McDonogh School following his graduation from Loyola in 1993, where he worked with the attack and midfield units.

As a player Cantabene has been a star in the indoor, outdoor and club circuit for a decade. He is widely regarded as one of the elite face-off specialists in the sport. This past summer, he helped the Baltimore Bayhawks reach their second Major League Lacrosse championship.  He finished the season leading the league in faceoffs won (208) and a win percentage of .580. The season before, he was an intrical part of leading the Bayhawks to the semi-finals. In the 2003 season he finished second in the MLL in groundballs with 92, playing in all 11 games. He won 51 percent of his face-offs (158-of-312) including a team-record single-game mark of 22-of-35 vs. Bridgeport. Cantabene also scored six goals and had six assists for 12 points.

In the summer of 2002, he captured the Major League Lacrosse World Championship with the Baltimore Bayhawks in just his second season in the outdoor league. He served as the Bayhawks' primary face-off specialist, taking 385 of the team's 419 draws during the season and led the team with 86 groundballs. He also tallied nine goals and added six assists for 15 points in 2002 as he was an MLL All-Star for the second consecutive season and was also named a SoBe Iron Lizard. 

In the indoor game, Cantabene has played in the National Lacrosse League with the Baltimore Thunder, Pittsburgh Crossfire, Washington Power and the Philadelphia Wings, whom he joined in 2002. In his season with the Wings, he notched 18 goals and 40 assists for 58 points and won more than 60 percent of his face- offs as well as leading the team's field players in loose balls with 163. He is a three time NLL All-Star and was named the league's All-Star Game MVP in 1999, the Thunder's Team MVP and Rookie of the Year in 1994.

Heading into the 2004 season, he has a 55.5 face-off win percentage (898-of-1619) in regular-season play. He has recorded 794 loose balls in his career, fifth-most in league history.

As a club player, Cantabene played six years for Mt. Washington Lacrosse Club (1995-2000).  He earned first-team All-Club five times and second-team once. He also played for the Maryland LC in 1994, earning his first first-team All-Club honor. He was named the 2000 Player of the Year in the Southern Division of the United States Club Lacrosse Association (USCLA) while playing for Mt. Washington LC. He was a first team all-midfield, led the league in face-offs and was third in the league and first on the team with 20 goals.

At Loyola College, Cantabene was a second-team All-American, team MVP and team captain his senior season in 1993 and earned a spot on the North-South All-Star Game squad.  He helped the Greyhounds to NCAA Tournament bids in each of his four years and one in the NCAA championship game in 1990.

Cantabene was inducted in the Rochester Chapter of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2003.

The native of Rochester, N.Y. and his wife Tracey, who currently works at Renewal by Andersen, are proud parents of their daughter, Lilly. Cantabene is one of seven siblings and currently resides in Baltimore.

Email:  tpuls@ccbcmd.edu

Puls' lacrosse resume is steeped in success both on and off the field.  The Villa Julie defensive assistant was also the head coach at The Community College of Baltimore - Essex, a team he guided to the 1991 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Championship, in addition to 13 other appearances in the NJCAA Final Four.  Half of the 14 appearances in the Final Four have led to appearances in the Championship Final.

The chief scout of the MLL's Baltimore Bayhawks, Puls sports a 213-90 career record, winning more than 70 percent of contests his squad has taken on the field.  He has 16 Maryland Junior College Championships to his credit, as well as 14 NJCAA Region XX Championships.

The 1990 and 1995 NJCAA Coach of the Year was also named the McDonald's Challenge Cup Coach of the Year in 1983. He has also been named the Maryland Junior College Coach of the Year on 15 occasions.  It's not just Puls' garnering awards. Under his guise, 30 of his student-athletes have been named Academic or Scholar All-Americans. 71 of his players have been NJCAA All-American selections, while three of those athletes earned NJCAA Player of the Year awards.  10 of Puls' players have gone on to the professional ranks.

Puls is an activist away from the field as well.  The President of the NJCAA Lacrosse Coaches Association has also served the organization as its Publicity Director, Chairman of the All-American Selection Format Committee, a member of the National Tournament Format Committee, and as the Championship Tournament Director on three occasions.

In addition to his efforts with the NJCAA, Puls is a contributing writer for Lacrosse magazine, and a panelist for the United States Lacrosse Coaches Association (USLCA) and United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Coaches Association (USILA) annual meetings.

Coach Puls currently resides in Baltimore with his wife Cassie.  They are the proud parents of three children, Travis, Tim, and Meghan.

The 2003 Villa Julie graduate returns to his alma mater for the second year. Davies, who will work with the Mustangs attack, has spent the past several seasons coaching the Junior Varsity squad at Archbishop Curley.

Davies was no stranger to success while at Villa Julie. He started every game for three consecutive seasons for the Mustangs, and was twice named an All-PAC First Team Defenseman. He was also a two-time ECAC Second Team choice on defense.  A transfer from UMBC, which was ranked as high as 11^th in the nation during his stint at the Retrievers, Davies immediately emerged as a team leader.  His leadership landed him the role of Team Captain his senior season.

A graduate of Hereford High School in Parkton, Md., Davies currently teaches History at Archbishop Curley and resides in Baltimore. 

E-mail: bmyers@vjc.edu

A midfielder for the Major League Lacrosses' Denver Outlaws, Myers will be in his second year with the team. Coach Myers has played an important part on the athletic staff since arriving at Villa Julie.  Aside from his coaching duties in men's lacrosse, Myers has completed assistant coaching roles with the women's lacrosse and field hockey teams.

Myers played collegiate lacrosse at Towson University, Where he played in 62 games (a Towson School Record) for the perennial national power.  He averaged just under a goal per game on the college field, tallying 56 goals from the midfield, while helping out on 11 others.  Two of his goals during his senior season were game-winners, both of which came in tightly contested meetings.  His fourth-quarter goal against Hofstra delivered a 6-5 win, while an early fourth quarter goal gave the Tigers an 11-9 win over #17 Delaware that season as well.  Myers started as a Freshman and scored 17 goals for the Tigers Final Four team that year.

His experience in the midfield in both the collegiate and professional ranks will translate well to his duties at Villa Julie.  Myers will work with the men's squad's midfielders.