Girls' Lacrosse
Girls' Lacrosse continues to be a competitive spring program at Gill St. Bernard's.
In recent years, the Girls’ Lacrosse team has turned heads as one of the better independent school programs in the area. With a focus on skill development and unselfish team play, the Knights have produced numerous All-Division, and All-State players, with several athletes going on to continue their career at the Division I and Division III levels.
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Levels:
Varsity, MS 6-8
Coaches:
Mark Wilson (Head Coach), Mary Cors (Assistant Coach)
Conference/affiliations/tournaments:
Skyland Conference, NJISAA-Prep B Championships and Somerset County Interscholastic Athletic Association
Starting Date:
March 10 & Spring Trip
Approximate ending date:
End of May
Game Sites:
GSB Turf Field
Coach Wilson
Coach Mark Wilson has been a lacrosse fan, player, and coach for over 30 years. His journey began in 1989 as a founding member of the Hillsborough High School lacrosse team in New Jersey. As a goalie and a defenseman at Hillsborough, Coach Wilson was captain and MVP his junior and senior years.
Coach Wilson continued his playing career as a long stick middie at Lehigh University. In his senior season in 1994, he was part of a defense that led Division I in goals against average, and the team went 12-3 which was the most wins in a season in Lehigh history at that time.
Coach Wilson began his high school coaching career at St. Joseph - Metuchen as a defensive assistant and was named Greater Middlesex County Assistant Coach of the Year in 2004. From 2007-2017 Coach Wilson had the great honor to coach his Alma Mater, Hillsborough High School, where he amassed a program record 100 wins and was the Skylands Conference and NJSIAA Group IV Coach of the Year in 2009. Coach Wilson served as the Defensive Coordinator for the Somerville Pioneers Boys lacrosse team who were Group II South Champions in 2019. While on the Pioneers staff, Coach Wilson was named NJSIAA Group II South Assistant Coach of the Year in 2021.
In 2018 Coach Wilson was named Co-Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator of the inaugural Jamaica Men’s National Lacrosse team that went 7-1 in the 2018 World Lacrosse Championships. The team finished 13th of 46 overall in the world, and the Team Jamaica Defense finished 4th overall in goals against average. In 2022, Coach Wilson served as the Defensive Coordinator of the Jamaican Men’s Team in the World Championships regional qualifier where the team qualified for the 2023 World Championships by earning a silver medal. He also held the Defensive Coordinator role at the 2022 U21 Men’s World Championships where Jamaican Men finished 9th in the world. In December of 2022, Coach Wilson was named Head Coach of the Jamaican Men’s National team, and he led them on a historic run in the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships where the Jamaican Men won their pool and finished 8th in the world.
Along the way, Coach Wilson has also been fortunate enough to teach his children the game he loves. He is 3 years into coaching his 1st grade son, he coached his daughter from 3rd to 8th grade, he the great fortune to serve as manager for the U20 Jamaican Women's National Team of which his daughter was a member at the 2024 World Championships in Hong Kong, and this spring Coach Wilson is blessed to resume coaching his daughter here at Gill St. Bernards!
Alumni Corner
We are proud to cheer on our student athletes as they continue their careers after Gill St. Bernard's. Once a Knight, always a Knight!
Hayley Armstrong '21 - Ithaca College
Kat Lioudis '18 - Colgate University
Daria Hadiyan '21 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Lauren Garcia '20 - Davidson College
Have We Missed A Student-Athlete?
We strive to keep up to date with all of our alumni but know that information sometimes changes. If you notice a former GSB student athlete missing, please reach out to us at alumni@gsbschool.org.
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