ANYONE INTERESTED IN PLAYING ON THE 2025 HIGH SCHOOL TEAM, PLEASE CONTACT COACH LEA ([email protected]) IN ORDER TO BE ADDED TO THE EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LIST!!
805 Lacrosse fielded our first boys’ high school team in the 2018 spring season. That was the first official lacrosse team from San Luis Obispo County to enter high school level competition. The 805 Sharks High School team competes in the Pacific Lacrosse League (PLL), against club teams based in Bakersfield, Camarillo, and throughout much of Southern California. The 805 Sharks are a club team and not an officially sanctioned CIF team representing a single high school, which means that boys attending any high school in San Luis Obispo County or northern Santa Barbara County (or home schooled) are eligible to compete.
The high school team is led by Coach Marc Lea, the former coach for the Cal Poly Mustangs Mens' Lacrosse program. In nearly twenty successful seasons with Cal Poly, Coach Lea helped the Mustangs earn five WCLL league titles, was named the WCLL Coach of the Year in four different seasons, and was awarded MCLA National Coach of the Year honors in 2012. Coach Lea is assisted by Dave Aguilar, who played lacrosse collegiately at UC Davis.
In our inaugural season, the team compiled an 8-4 record and earned a trip to the PLL playoffs. We also had 4 players chosen to the PLL All-Star Game. In 2019, the team had a challenging regular season but managed to squeak into the playoffs. In the first round, our young squad played their best game of the season and upset Camarillo 12 - 7 to earn the program's first playoff victory. That victory sent us to the PLL Final Four, where we narrowly lost in the semi-finals to the eventual league champion Vista Panthers. Our 2020 and 2021 seasons were cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the Sharks defeated the Bakersfield Rams for the programs' first ever PLL league title. In 2023, we went undefeated and brought home our 2nd straight PLL league title. In 2024, the number of teams in the PLL dropped to only three, so there was no official league title. We played a full schedule competing against other club teams from Bakersfield and Northern California, going 6-2 on the season between both our varsity level and JV level games.
The Pacific Lacrosse League provides an opportunity for non-CIF high school lacrosse teams to participate in competitive lacrosse. Their website can be found here for more information http://www.plllacrosse.com/. 805 Lacrosse strongly supports establishing both boys and girls CIF sanctioned high school teams in San Luis Obispo County. As local participation in youth lacrosse increases, that shift to CIF will be proposed to our local high schools, but overall player numbers are not large enough to justify that move at the current time.
2022 805 Sharks Boys' High School Team
2019 805 Sharks Boys' High School Team