Let me introduce myself:   I am Jeff Dreisbach. I am originally from Baltimore, Md. I went to McDonogh School and ended up graduating from Towson High in 1969. I played football in the fall, wrestled in the winter, and watched Towson High Lacrosse in the spring. I did not play lacrosse at Towson because I didn't think I was good enough. After all, Towson High was undefeated in Baltimore County for over a decade and many of may classmates on that team became NCAA All Americans and some are now in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
    I went to the Community College of Baltimore and played on the football team there. In the spring, a friend said I should go out for the CCB lacrosse team. My friend had gone to the organizational meeting and heard that not many guys going out for the college team. I knew there were many talented lacrosse players at the school, but I learned later that they preferred to play for the Maryland Lacrosse Club, Carling or Schaeffer Lacrosse Clubs because they were experienced enough. I made the CCB team and have been playing or coaching lacrosse ever since.
    When I transferred to WVU in the spring of 1971, my friends asked why I wanted to go to WVU, since there was no lacrosse. I said, "It will be there when I get there." So, I started the West Virginia University Lacrosse Club. We hosted Michigan State's varsity that March and the team has been in existence ever since.
    I opened a bar in Morgantown's Sunnyside called Redbeard's in 1976 and still took a few classes to keep myself eligible to play lacrosse for the WVU.club. In 1978, when a bunch of us were perceived to be "too old" to play for the university, we formed the Morgantown Lacrosse Club. We played for eleven years, with Redbeard's as the sponsor. After I closed the bar in 1987, I found that beer was the glue that held the team together. Without Redbeard's support, the team folded. In 1989 the WVU club president asked me if I would coach them. I  consented and did so until the fall of 2001, when some of the players felt they were too good to need a coach any longer.
    Along the way, I worked with David Myerberg to form a high school program in 1995. Dave organized and coached the Morgantown Cougars, a combined team made up of Morgantown High and University High students. The Cougars played in the WPSLA (wpsla.org) for three years. Dave wrote a proposal, which he presented to the school board in the fall of 1997 for boys teams at Morgantown High and University High. The teams were then approved by the board. While doing business in town, I found that there was also an interest for high school girls lacrosse. So, we got out the boys proposal, changed gender references, and Dave presented it at the next school board meeting. The girls teams were approved.
    Morgantown High and University High fielded "pure" boys and girls teams in the spring of 1998. I ended up coaching the University High boys team, since my wife is a teacher there. I did double duty for four years, coaching University High in the afternoon and the WVU in the evening.
   
    Now, we are trying to get middle school programs going in Morgantown.

    Since the media in the state is woefully lacking in covering the fastest growing sport in the country, I decided to start this website to pick up the slack and get us all communicating with each other. Recently, a message was posted on laxpower.com saying that the first lacrosse in the state was starting up in Charleston. Because of the lack of coverage, the person posting the note did not know that lacrosse has been in the Mountain State for quite awhile.

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