Welcome
to the home of the Upper Arlington High School Girls
Lacrosse Team.
The
Upper Arlington High School Girls Lacrosse Program
began
in 1983 under the sponsorship of UAHS faculty
member and Coach Pete Corey. Tom Stout then led the
Bears for five seasons. In 1992, Wendy Pinta took
the helm of the UA Girls Lacrosse where she served
as head coach for the next fifteen years, leading
them to three state championship titles. In 2008,
Lynda McCandlish, a UAHS and Northwestern University
graduate, assumed the head coach position. In her
first and only season as head coach of the Golden
Bears, Coach McCandlish led the team to a state title.
Coach McCandlish made Ohio history as the only person
to ever have won the state championship as both a
UA player (2002) and as a head coach (2008). From
2009-2011, Kim Rocheleau headed the Golden Bears,
taking them to the state finals in each of her three
years as head coach.
In
2012, the Golden Bears saw two of its former coaches
return to lead the team. Head Coach Wendy Pinta (1991-2007)
returned from a 4-year hiatus to coach youth lacrosse
at Hastings Middle School and Associate Head Coach
Sue Stimmel (1989-90) returned after a 23-year leave
to coach collegiate lacrosse at Denison and The Ohio
State University. In their first season as head coaches
they returned the Bears to the state finals. In their
second year (2013), they led the squad to their first
state championship in five years. They again garnered
championships in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019,
setting a state-record with five consecutive state
championships.
Since
its inception, UA has had 26 athletes play all four
years in college. UA also has eleven players currently
playing for collegiate Division I, II, or III programs
and many others playing club lacrosse. In 1993, Upper
Arlington player Ashley Burkart was the first-ever
UAHS girls lacrosse player to be named All-American.
Since then, 26 other
UAHS players have earned All-American distinctions,
and many others have been honored with All-Ohio and
All-League awards.
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Home
of the 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018, and 2019 State Champs
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