Coronado Lacrosse Club (CLC) is a nonprofit, public educational lacrosse organization for youth girls under sixteen (16) years of age. Our goal is to promote the development of female youth lacrosse players to their greatest potential via recreational and competitive programs.  CLC is dedicated to serving the San Diego community by ensuring that young ladies in surrounding communities have access to an excellent lacrosse education in a safe environment. CLC offers tremendous opportunity for youth development, both physically and mentally.  CLC strives to maintain its mission, developing youth lacrosse players to their greatest potential, while instilling an everlasting passion for the beautiful game of lacrosse.  

CLC BOARD of Directors

The Coronado Lacrosse Club Board is made up of entirely parent volunteers.  

PRESIDENT - Jim Fabiszak

VICE PRESIDENT - Nicole Belong

SECRETARY - Jennifer Bryan-Gredvig

TREASURER - David Laski

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS - Kim Peterson

If you are interested in serving as a board member or volunteering with CLC, please contact us at:

coronadolacrosseclub@gmail.com

CLC STAFF

DIRECTOR OF COACHING - Ava Gottschall

• NFHS Accredited Interscholastic Coach

• Pursuing US Lacrosse Level 2 Certification

• CHS JV Head Coach 2018

• CMS 7/8 Head Coach 2017

• CLC 7/8 Assistant 2017-2018

• B.A. Economics magna cum laude

BIO

Ava Gottschall comes to Coronado all the way from Massachusetts where she grew up playing soccer, until she fell in love with lacrosse, playing every chance she could get! She went on to play at DII Saint Michael's College before transferring to DIII Mount Holyoke College, where she was a three year midfield starter, senior captain, and one of the all-time top point producers for MHC.

She then moved on to start her corporate career supporting a group of C-suite executives and service academy alumni; among others, a former Army Ranger and a former F15 Pilot/Rhodes Scholar. The team-first mentality and leadership skills she had developed playing lacrosse helped her to adapt and thrive in a military-inspired corporate culture.

Somehow, after almost 8 years away from the field and heavily focused on excelling in a demanding career, Ava has fallen back in love with the sport of lacrosse from the other side of the coin: coaching! She brings to CLC her ability to apply the leadership and organizational lessons she has learned in her career to the world of girls lacrosse.

She passionately believes in the ability of girls/womens sports to help develop numerous life skills in youth, as well as instill the confidence and resilience to approach all of life's challenges. She is dedicated to attracting and retaining more girls in sport and helping female athletes achieve their goals.

Her current focus at CLC is on:

• Incorporating coaching best practices by age/level from our national governing body (US Lacrosse)

• Developing a distinctive CLC coaching culture

• Ensuring club-wide consistency with regards to skill-specific coaching

• Coach talent acquisition and retention

• Coach training and resource development

• Developing tools to enhance coach-parent communication