Overlake hires Morse as head girls lacrosse coach
Published 5:19 pm Monday, December 8, 2014
The Overlake School has hired Elaine Morse to be the head girls lacrosse coach for the 2015 season.
Overlake’s athletic director, John Wiley, said, “We’ve been looking for the right person to lead this program essentially since Sue Haviland retired a year and a half ago. Girls lacrosse coaches are the hardest positions to fill and to be fortunate enough to have a talented coach like Elaine Morse want to take the reins is a great gift to our lacrosse community.”
Katie Flinn served as the interim head coach for the 2014 season and guided the Owls to a 7-4-1 season. Said Wiley, “I made Katie a promise that she’d only have to be the head coach for one season. She is much happier as an assistant coach in our program, though she did a great job. She’s just as excited as I am that we landed Elaine.”
Morse spent five years as a head coach in the Eastside Eagles program at the youth and junior high school level and assisted with the Lake Sammamish DII program. She helped start elementary (grades 2-4) girls lacrosse programs on the Eastside, trained new coaches, trained youth officials and served on the executive board for two years for the Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association. As a player, Morse played at the collegiate level for Earlham College in Indiana.
