Roger Davis

Roger Davis has played, coached, and run lacrosse programs for more than half a century. He played for coaches Joe Dizansa and Fran McCall at Bethpage High School on Long Island, and was recruited by Glenn Thiel to play for the defending NCAA Lacrosse Champions, the University of Virginia, in 1972.

In 1974 he left the Virginia lacrosse team to start a varsity lacrosse team at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville. That team produced notable players including Woody Jay, who went on to captain Cornell, Craig Rogers at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Kevin Corrigan at Virginia — who later became the first coach of the Notre Dame NCAA men's lacrosse program and won National Championships in 2023 and 2024.

In 2000 Roger began coaching his son Adrian in the Triad Youth Lacrosse Association (TYLA) in Greensboro, North Carolina. He helped start varsity lacrosse programs at Southwest Guilford High School and Ragsdale High School in Jamestown. In 2006 he founded the men's club lacrosse program at High Point University, coaching there through 2021.

Since 2021 Roger has returned to youth lacrosse as Executive Director of the Piedmont Community Lacrosse Association (PCLA), a league of a dozen youth lacrosse programs across central North Carolina. Native Americans played lacrosse for hundreds of years before Europeans arrived — they considered it the medicine game, a gift from the Creator. Throughout his life, lacrosse has been Roger's medicine game, and he has always worked to share that gift with his players. Lacrosse is more than a game.