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The Canandaigua Athletics Department is excited to announce Alyssa Zacharias as the head coach of the Canandaigua Girls Lacrosse program. Zacharias previously coached the team in 2017 and 2018 and led Canandaigua to the 2017 Section V Class B Sectional Title and the NYS Semi-finals. She was named the All Greater Rochester Coach of the Year in 2017. Coach Zacharias was an assistant coach on the team this past spring that had a record of 16-3.
Prior to coaching at Canandaigua, Coach Zacharias led Fairport Varsity Lacrosse for two seasons. In 2015 she was named the Monroe County Division 1 Coach of the Year. Additionally, her teams have twice been the recipient of the Section V Girls Lacrosse Robert Carpenter Sportsmanship Award (2015 at Fairport, 2018 at Canandaigua).
Coach Zacharias, a fourth grade teacher at Canandaigua Elementary School, graduated from Canandaigua Academy in 2007 and played four years of collegiate lacrosse at Nazareth College. In 2011 she was named the Empire 8 Conference Sportsman of the Year for Women’s Lacrosse. Zacharias and her husband, Jonny, live in Canandaigua with their two sons.
Congratulations and welcome back, Coach Z!
