Team Washington Lacrosse has been a 501c3 non-profit organization since it's inception in 1999. Team WA was developed to showcase the top high school players from the state of Washington on a national level. All rising freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to participate in the program. Each rising class will have their own team, as well as two additional joint-class teams. Team WA operates on four core philosophies:

1. The best coaches in the state: Team WA has the head coaches from Bainbridge, Bellevue, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Newport, Skyline and Tahoma on their staff. Every Washington state championship in the past 15 years has been won by one of these coaches.

2. Traveling to the best tournaments in the country: The Team WA coaching staff firmly believes that the only way to get better is to play the best competition. That is why Team WA almost exclusively travels back east for all of their events, and only attends the hardest and most prestigious tournaments.

3. Coach nominated rosters: Many summer/regional travel teams will offer "open tryouts", often charging players just to attend. Team WA is exclusively "coach nominated", meaning you can only be invited to participate if your high school coach nominates you.This process eliminates the politics and profiting element of the program, while insuring the most competitive roster possible.

4. The best exposure to college coaches: A combination of the best coaches, the best players and the best tournaments, culminates with the best possible exposure for players interested in playing in college. The 8 different high school programs represented on our coaching staff has by far the largest amount of alumni playing NCAA lacrosse in college. This vast network of alumni connections and coaching relationships is the best college recruiting resource in the state of Washington.

Participation with Team Washington will not interfere or conflict with any summer high school lacrosse activities. Once the final roster of 20-22 players per class has been selected by our staff, all of the teams will practice together through June and into July. This time together will culminate with each team taking a trip to the east coast to participate in two national high school recruiting tournaments. Prior to traveling back east, Team Washington will also scrimmage local Northwest regional teams. The coaching staff for each team will be made up of the most consistently successful high school coaches in the state.

Team Washington 2015's - Chinooks (rising seniors) - Coaches: Ian O'Hearn (Mercer Island head coach) & Sam Hutson (Skyline head coach)

Team Washington 2016's - Sockeyes (rising juniors) - Coaches: Brandon Fortier (Issaquah head coach) & Jordan Goldstein (Issaquah youth director)

Team Washington 2017's - Cohos (rising sophomores) - Coaches: Dejon Hush (Lake Washingtion head coach) & Sam Snow (Denver Outlaws)

Team Washington 2018's - Chums (rising freshman) - Coaches: John Baumann (Bellevue head coach) & Chris Bergin (Bellevue youth director)

Team Washington 2015's/2016's - Cutthroats (rising juniors & seniors) - Coaches: Ian Lee (Newport head coach) & Rob Shields (Mercer Island youth director)

Team Washington 2017's/2018's - Steelhead (rising freshman & sophomores) - Coaches: Jack Visco (Bainbridge head coach) & Brian Johnson (Tahoma head coach)

Team Washington - alumni list:

2015 - Michael Giannopolus - Issaquah - Georgetown

2015 - Evan Condon - Mercer Island - Army

2014 - Spencer Noonan - Skyline - Fairfield

2014 - Riley Gulrajani - Bellevue - Dickinson

2014 - Peter Mahony - Mercer Island - Yale

2014 - Michael Lucchesi - Auburn Riverside - Tampa

2014 - Joey Lucchesi - Auburn Riverside - Tampa

2014 - Jacob Carwright - Bothell Inglemore - Dean College

2014 - Hank Bethke - Bellevue - Ohio State

2014 - Eric Haehl - Bellevue - Richmond

2014 - Chase York - Mercer Island - Loyola

2014 - Benji Rothenberg - Mercer Island - Gettysburg

2014 - Alex Prather - Eastlake - Adams State

2013 - Jake Knotsman - Bainbridge - Fairfield

2013 - Grant Preisler - Mercer Island - Marquette

2013 - Dakota Jones - Bellevue - Army

2013 - Cole Johnson - Bellevue - Army

2012 - Jack Beal - King's Way - Dominican

2012 - Connor Bernal  - Mercer Island - Marquette

2012 - Clayton Frank - King’s Way - Marist

2012 - Brent Tsang - Mercer Island - Mount St. Mary’s

2012 - Austin Boyd - Bellevue - Stevens Tech

2011 - T.J. Blackburn - Mercer Island - Wesleyan

2011 - Peter Iani - Mercer Island - Whittier

2011 - Matt Shields - Mercer Island - Mount Olive

2011 - Doug Mahony - Mercer Island - Bentley

2010 - Zach Steedman - Emerald Ridge - Colorado College

2010 - Thomas Brook - Emerald Ridge - Whittier

2010 - Taylor Wisman - Bothell Inglemore - RIT

2010 - Taylor Dean - Curtis - Whittier

2010 - Steve Taylor - Mercer Island - Bentley

2010 - Jon Wettack - Mercer Island - SUNY Geneseo

2010 - James Seeley - Bellevue - St. Lawrence

2010 - Hector Rhodes - Lakeside - Williams

2010 - Hap Giraud - Mercer Island - Vermont

2010 - Eric Omri - Bellevue - Whittier

2010 - Connor Raffety - Mercer Island - Bentley

2010 - Cole Nordstrom - Bellevue - Denver

2009 - Steve Caditz - Mercer Island - Bentley

2009 - Sam Snow - Bainbridge Island - Fairfield

2009 - Max Olson - Bainbridge Island - Kenyon

2009 - Landon Carr - Curtis - Maryland

2009 - Kevin Nguyen - Bainbridge Island - NDNU

2009 - Eric Davidheiser - Vashon - Penn State

2009 - Daniel Shields - Mercer Island - Mount Olive

2008 - Michael Pancotine - Issaquah - WAC

2008 - Lachlan Murphy Skyline - RPI

2008 - Dayton Gilbreath - Bainbridge Island - Air Force

2008 - Caldwell Rohrbach - Garfield - Gettysburg

2007 - Taylor Platt - Bellevue - Denver

2007 - Greg Mahony - Mercer Island - Yale

2007 - Bryan Gilbreath - Bainbridge Island - Air Force