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Team NorCal Coaches and Leadership


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Bill Glazier

Founder, CEO, and Executive Director, Team NorCal Lacrosse

Executive Director Background

Bill's  vision in 2008 to provide more opportunities for players in Northern California to play at a much higher level and compete with lacrosse programs around the country resulted in the creation and growth of the first, and now largest and oldest travel team in Northern California.   Through Team NorCal, he has enabled more players to participate in travel and elite lacrosse programs than anyone in the Bay Area.

He was introduced to lacrosse as a kid in Upstate New York outside Buffalo on the Seneca Indian Reservation, where his Dad was the 'Medicine Man' for the Newtown Golden Eagles - the Native American Box Lacrosse team for many years.  He founded his High School Lacrosse team at Sweet Home High School in Amherst, NY, played attack, winning All Western New York Honors, and played in college at Harvard,  and afterwards here on the West Coast where he came for graduate school at Stanford.  His wife forcibly retired him from the game many years ago when he came home from a box lacrosse game covered in blood. He is, however, contemplating a return from retirement, against her wishes...

He lives in Palo Alto, with his wife Katherine, a lacrosse playing younger son Jonathan who was a High School All American at Palo Alto High School, the Captain of the Men's Lacrosse team at Northwestern University and works as an Software Engineer in a fintech company in San Francisco, and a baseball-addicted and football playing older son William who graduated from Tufts and is now in a cybersecurity startup in Silicon Valley.  Bill used to spend his days starting great companies in technology and then later in the venture capital business for Redwood Ventures, but as he regularly jokes 'his favorite start-up has always been Team NorCal Lacrosse'.  Nowadays, he makes occasional angel investments, plays with his Labrador Retriever Shasta, and manages Team NorCal.  

He has run the Tomahawks Youth Lacrosse Club in Palo Alto as President for 15 years.  Bill founded the original Boy's and Girl's teams at Palo Alto High School. The Palo Alto Boy's team has won the SCVAL Championship in 5 of the 10 years since its founding,   He has helped numerous public and private high schools in the South Bay launch their high school lacrosse programs.

Brent Tovrea

Director of Boys High School, Team NorCal Lacrosse

Brent is another Team NorCal alum - playing with us while a student at Clayton Valley HS in Concord.  Brent played midfield and attack at Sonoma State University, where he scored 67 goals in his 4 year tenure, where he was named numerous time to the WCLL All Conference teams.  

Brent is now the Head Coach at Los Altos High School, and has been active for many years in coaching at team NorCal Day Camps, Bear Valley Overnight Camp, and 




Mac Morgan

Head Coach, Team NorCal Boys U12 Team

Mac is a NorCal alum, playing with us while at Livermore High School. in the East Bay  Mac played first in college at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, where his team won two National Collegiate Junior College Championships.  Mac finished his college career at St Mary's College in Lawrence, Kansas where he was a standout at the attack position with numerous accolades including 178 points in 2 seasons as a Spire, and was a 2x All KCAC player, NAIA National Offensive Player of the Year, NAIA All-American, and NAIA Academic All-American.  


Colleen Niklaus

Director of Girls' Lacrosse

Colleen has more than 20 years of lacrosse experience.  She was a star player for the UC Davis Women’s Lacrosse team, where she earned MVP honors, as well as played for the all-stars Northern California Nationals Tournament team to compete with the best in the nation back East.  After college, she continued to play for Bay Area post-collegiate teams until finally devoting all her time to coaching. 

Colleen brings close to 20  years of coaching experience to our coaching staff, including 6 years as Head Coach of San Francisco’s Saint Ignatius College Prep Women's Varsity program, who she led to numerous #1 rankings in California.  In more recent years, she has turned her focus to youth lacrosse in Santa Cruz, where she helped start a girls’ program and has coached many girls and  boys teams over the years.   

Before devoting all her time to Team NorCal as Director of Girls' Lacrosse, she was  a 20-year veteran high school teacher of Spanish and PE; she also holds a Masters degree in Education, with an emphasis in Language Development.  She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and two children. 


Jonny Glazier

Coaching Most Every Team He Feels Like....

Jonny started playing lacrosse in 4th grade,  mostly because his older brother had become the baseball fanatic in the house, and like all younger brothers, Jonny wanted his own sandbox.  It was a wise decision on many fronts.  Jonny started with the Tomahawks, and then was part of the founding team for lacrosse at Palo Alto High School, who went on to win the SCVAL championship in their first year over their big bad archrival private school Menlo.  Jonny became the leading all time scorer for Palo Alto High School, with 175 goals and 75 assists in his four years on the team.  As a senior he scored 90 goals, ranking 8th in the entire nation. and setting a single game California record for goals scored with 12 in one game versus Woodside.  He was named an Academic All American by US Lacrosse as a senior.  

He earned a degree in Engineering from Northwestern University, where he learned how cold it can get in the Midwest, and how great a city Chicago is.  He was the Captain of the Men's Lacrosse team there. He now works as a Software Engineering Manager in SF for Bond technologies, a fintech company.

As one of the original members of the first Team NorCal team, Jonny has been a part of pretty much every event we have ever done and knows all about the people and the culture that makes Team NorCal such a special club.  His job now is to tap into the wealth of talent from the Team NorCal alumni community to add to our coaching staff, and to manage major events for us in the style to which we have become accustomed.   And to offer his unique offensive skills to players across all the age spectrum.  

Pierce Phillp

Coach Team NorCal U14 Team, Head Coach Mountain View HS

Pierce is a Bay Area native who was a four year varsity player at Mountain View High School, as well as a two year captain.   Also a storied Team NorCal alumni.  

He attended the University of Arizona and was a 3 year starter, as well as a captain his senior year.  While in college he was an assistant coach at Salpointe Catholic Prep for two years. Additionally, he was an assistant coach for the University of Arizona Women’s Lacrosse team for three years. 

Pierce now is a coach at Mountain View High school, as well as the Head Coach for the U14 Boys team.