DIRECTORS

The founder of Team 91 Lacrosse, Brian Spallina is a 2000 graduate of Hofstra, where he was a two-time All-American, who holds the Major League Lacrosse for most championships won by a single player, with seven titles to his name. He is a member of the Long Island Metro Lacrosse Foundation. Spallina was the 70th overall selection in the inaugural MLL Collegiate Draft, and played professionally for the Long Island Lizards, Philadelphia Barrage and Chesapeake Bayhawks.

Jillian Pfeifer

Pfeifer attended Colorado Mesa University 2013-2017. While at Colorado Mesa University she was named 3x RMAC first conference team, 15x defensive player of the week, 2016 defensive player of the year, as well as an All-American nominee. Ranked 5th in save percentages for D2 in 2016 and 2017. Pfeifer continued her career on the coaching side as a Graduate Assistant for CMU 2017-2018. Pfeifer has over 8+ years of coaching experience and is the current Women's Head Coach at St. Joseph's University.

On Field Directors

Terence Dee

Dee attended St. John the Baptist HS where he was named Football and Lacrosse all league selections, he then went on to play football at Kings College and finished his studies at Stony Brook University. Dee is a sports business administration professional with 20 + years of experience and 10 + years as a girls lacrosse program administrator, both coach and director.

Mike Murtha

Murtha currently serves as the Assistant Syosset Girls Varsity Lacrosse Coach. With over 25 years of high school and club lacrosse experience, Murtha joins Team 91 as an Ithaca College Hall of Fame Inductee.

Recruiting Coordinators

Morgan Molinari O'Connor

Morgan Molinari O’Connor is a lacrosse coach and former athletic director and teacher at Sacred Heart
Academy. She served the Director of Athletics, Athletic Advisor and Camps Director for 16 years. As the
Director of Athletics she oversaw 24 teams, 60 coaches and over 500 student-athletes. She served as the NSCHSGAAC Chairwomen of the Soccer and Lacrosse leagues.

O’Connor has been involved in athletics her entire life. She attended Sacred Heart Academy where
she participated in Swimming, Basketball and Lacrosse. Upon graduating she attended the University of Notre
Dame. At Notre Dame she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and played lacrosse. She holds a Masters
of Science in Secondary Education from Molloy University.

Since graduating from Notre Dame, O’Connor has been involved in the sport of lacrosse as a coach on
numerous levels: LISGYLL, PAL, high school, club, regional and national teams. She served as the varsity coach
at Sacred Heart Academy for 14 years and is involved with numerous professional organizations. She currently
is on the Board of Directors of the Long Island Metro Foundation chapter of USA Lacrosse, is the USA Lacrosse
All-American Chair, and serves as the Director of Port Washington PAL and Director of Port Washington Field
Hockey.

At Sacred Heart O’Connor built the lacrosse program to become a USA Lacrosse top 20 nationally
ranked program. In her 14 year coaching career, O’Connor coached 78 players who moved to play collegiate
lacrosse, 16 All-Americans, 40 Academic All-Americans, 7 Newsday All-Long Island players and 2 Jackie Pitts
Award winners.

Mrs. O’Connor grew up in Manhasset, NY with her 5 siblings who all played Division 1 lacrosse
respectively at: UMass, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard and Bucknell. 

Gina Sambus Leake will be on the recruiting coordinating team as well as O'Connor. Leake is a Virginia University Women's Lacrosse Alumni and currently on staff for Garden City Varsity Lacrosse and Team 91 2031 Crush. Leake is a current Garden City community member and a teacher in the district. Gina brings a ton of knowledge and a massive network to our program. Having close ties in the NCAA she provides insight that is incredibly helpful for our athletes. 

Grace Beshlian is the newest addition to the Team 91 Recruiting Coordinator team. Grace is fairly fresh out of the UCONN Women's Lacrosse Program, has coaching experience at the collegiate level at Xavier University and currently at St. Joseph's College. Beshlian is also on staff for the Garden City Varsity Lacrosse Program as well as Team 91 2029 Thunder. 

This powerhouse team of women is a great source of guidance, knowledge and networking for our players. This journey is about helping these players achieve their dreams and with this team we can help be there every step of the way for the player to make the best choice for them.  

 

COACHING LINE UP

2028 Avalanche

Dan Paccione | Emily Dwyer | Sam Leavey | Mike Murtha | Keith Lanning

2029 Roar

Brian Spallina | Jillian Pfeifer | MJ Timpanaro

2029 Thunder

Jill Pfeifer |  Grace Beshlian | Isabella Grosso

2030 Frenzy

Mike Murtha |  Anthony Santa Maria | Chris Meyer

2030 Bandits

Kyla Andreas |  Juliana Gentile

2031 Orange Crush

Chris Rogler | Gina Leake | Jim Lynch

2031 White Lightning

 Frank Mule | Paul Rao | Dan Royle | Isabelle Palladino

2032 Stars

Morgan O'Connor | Gerry Donaghy | Tim Brynes | Kevin McLaughlin

2032 Wave

Lindsay Guzzetta | Kayleigh Mimnaugh | Meghan Lorenzen

2033 Blaze

Brian Spallina | Gina Spallina | CJ Leary | Carol McDermott | Jim Feminella

2033 Craze

Casey Capace | Tom Maloney

2033 Navy

Pamela Giordano | Kevin Towl

2034 Mayhem

George Breres | Gina Leake | Dakota Hansen 

2034 Grit

Emma Pliszak | Abigail Santiago | Catherine Pirato

2034 Navy

Kayla Salerno | Maggie Healy | Kathleen Hurley | Andrew Arnold

2035 Rush

Anthony Barberio | Dennis Graham | Jamie Trowbridge | Maggie Harding

2035 Navy

Regan Keilmeyer | Josh Cherney | Sarah Kenyon | Brad Glick

2035/36 Futures

Terence Dee | Liv Zummo | Gianna Mott | Giavonna DeBono

2035/36 Navy

Morgan O'Connor | Sarah Kenyon | Rory Meehan | Michaela Burke 

 

*See all Team pages for coaching biography