Loomis Chaffee head boys lacrosse coach Bill Lee has been named Coach of the Year by the Western New England Lacrosse Coaches’ Association. The award was presented Thursday, May 21, at the annual meeting of the coaches’ association.

Coach Lee has been a member of the Loomis Chaffee faculty for two years. In his first full season, his team had a record of 4-12 overall and 0-7 in the Founders League. This year, the team had a 10-6 record and nearly won the Founders League title with a 5-2 record.

At the Loomis Chaffee Spring Athletic Awards ceremony on May 20, Coach Lee had this to say about this year’s team turnaround: “The 2015 boys lacrosse team had a couple of themes it wanted to live by at the start of the season. The first was one word: "Together." This word is emblazoned on the bottom of practice shirts. The concept is simple. We work hard on the field, we win, we lose, together. It is a powerful idea when you know that you are not in it alone, that no matter what, you have many others by your side. The second theme was that we bow to no program at Loomis Chaffee. Basically, we wanted to let ourselves know that we could compete with anyone in our league, which is possibly one of the strongest lacrosse leagues in the country.”

Coach Lee is a full-time Loomis faculty member, working as an associate director of admission and living in Harman Hall with his wife, faculty member Gratia Lee.