Town Lacrosse Training
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Origins of Town Lacrosse Training
Founder Steve Manitta, a successful lacrosse coach who has the unique resume of not only coaching at the high school, international, and college levels, but creating programs at the high school and college levels. This vast, 30-year plus experience led Coach Manitta to design a program that was more about developing individual players and strengthening team concepts than tournament play and new lacrosse equipment. By combining athletic development concepts that are severely ignored, and unlocking different methods of individual and team lacrosse "IQ" understanding, Coach Manitta brings variety that makes each session fun and holds players' and coaches' attention. A former DI college head coach who has been awarded NJ state high school, NJCAA, DIII, and DII Coach of the Year, Coach Manitta's extensive experience is well documented. Under his tutelage, his players have earned 8 different All American selections and 7 different Players of the Year honors in both high school and college.
Town Lacrosse Coaching Staff
Steve Manitta
Town Lacrosse is operated by Steve Manitta, a current college coach with over 30 years of high school, college, and international coaching experience.
A NJ high school Coach of the Year, Manitta developed 8 All Americans, and 3 Players of the Year at their respective positions, who went on to compete at Syracuse (2), UNC, Johns Hopkins, Delaware, Bucknell, Villanova and Towson. He was also a DI head coach, and a college Coach of the Year at the DII, DIII and NJCAA levels, developing All Americans, Players of the Year, and Rookies of the Year in every division.
Coach Manitta was also the offensive coordinator for the France National Team in Israel for the 2018 World Games where “le bleu” gathered the most goals and team wins in team history.
Currently, Coach Manitta is the architect of a new program in Sussex, NJ, a team that advanced to the NJCAA tournament in its first sanctioned season. There, he captured Region 19 while coaching five 2021 All Region players as well as the Player of the Year. From the programs inception, 14 Sussex players were named to the All Region team as well as the 2023 GSAC Player of the Year. Coach Manitta was also named Coach of the Year in Region 19 in 2023.
Coach Manitta is joined by his longtime friend and coach Sal Marinello, an athletic development specialist who has worked with all of Coach Manitta’s teams throughout the years.
Sal Marinello
Sal Marinello the Head Coach at Athletic Development Coaching located in Millburn, NJ, has held certifications from the conditioning profession's most prestigious certifying organizations, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and USA Weightlifting.
For 35 years Coach Sal has been a Performance Coach and has worked at the Division 1, 2 and 3 level, conducted over 40,000 private coaching sessions, and spent thousands of additional hours coaching teams at all levels, from youth through Division 1 of college.
Currently, Sal is the Performance Coach for Tom Schreiber - Captain America - MVP of the PLL and one of the top players in the NLL as a member of the Toronto Rock. Coach also works with PLL Champions Utah Archers’ Ryan Ambler and Matt McMahon and has consulted with numerous other Professional and college level lacrosse players.
In addition to being a Coach, and understanding and being a part of the recruiting process from both the high school and college standpoints, he has also gone through the process as the first Head Athletic Development and Performance Coach at Chatham High School, Coach Sal designed and implemented a cutting edge Athletic Development program for all of the school's teams, and was part of building the Cougars’ successful football and boys’ and girls’ lacrosse programs.
During Sal's tenure at Chatham the athletic program enjoyed unparalleled success in both boys and girls sports, where teams played in and won state championships in football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls lacrosse, wrestling, and swimming.
Coach Marinello middle,
PLL Player of the Year Tom Schreiber left, Donald Stewart Jr. right