Clinic with Coach Hezlep 3/26

Join Coach Hezlep Saturday March 26th 2:00-3:30pm 

(location TBA) 

We are so fortunate! 

MML Boys (MSB and up)

Joe Hezlep enters his 9th year as Head Coach at Scarborough High School. During his time as head coach, Scarborough has won five Maine Class A State Championships in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The Red Storm has compiled a 102-25 record during that time. In 2007, he was the 1st assistant at the University of Southern Maine. Previous to that he spent two years working as an assistant coach at Scarborough including the 2006 Class A State Championship. He started coaching the 7th and 8th grade teams in 2001 and did so for three years.

Coach Hezlep was selected to coach at the 2012 Champion All-American Showcase, a US Lacrosse event. The event took place at Disney's Wide World of Sports. He was one of 8 coaches selected to coach 96 of the best lacrosse players in the country representing 31 states. He is also the President of the Maine Lacrosse Coaches Association, past president of the Maine Chapter of US Lacrosse and is on the Maine Underclassman Showcase Game committee.

Coach Hezlep attended Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. While there he majored in Western Politics with a minor in American History. Coach Hezlep also worked as a tutor for the politics department for two years and then served as a one on one peer mentor, helping kids who were having trouble adjusting to the freedom and academic requirements of college. He played lacrosse for the Division II Penmen in the Northeast 10 Conference from 2001 until 2004 and was a starter in his first year as a Penmen.

Before SNHU Coach Hezlep played lacrosse South Portland High School. He played baseball until his sophomore year when he started playing lacrosse. He was a captain in his junior and senior seasons and was also the team’s leading scorer in those years. As a senior he was a Press Herald All-State honorable mention, 1st Team All-SMAA and was selected to play in the Maine Senior All-Star game. Coach Hezlep also played football all four years in high school, he play defensive end and was a back-up quarterback and won a Class A State Title in his senior year.

He coaches football at his alma mater South Portland High School where he is the special teams coordinator and coaches the wide receivers and outside linebackers.

Coach Hezlep currently lives in Portland with his wife, Megan, his french bulldog, Duchess, and works as Director of Operations at Landing Real Estate in Portland's Old Port district.