Chris Widelo has been a fixture in Central Massachusetts lacrosse for over 15 years. A defenseman at Division II Assumption College from 1994-1997, he went on to be an assistant coach at Assumption after graduation and spent six seasons as the school's head men's lacrosse coach. In 2005 Chris served as the assistant varsity lacrosse coach at St. Peter-Marian High School in Worcester. 

From 2007-2011 Widelo was the associate head coach at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. While at Mount Ida he helped lead the Mustangs to three of their six North Atlantic Conference Championships (2007-2009), a Great North Atlantic Conference Championship in 2011 and three appearances in the NCAA DIvision III Tournament (2007-2009).   In 2013 he served as an assistant coach at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, NY.

Outside of the high school and college ranks, Chris has coached the Massachusetts Bay State Games Metro Region Lacrosse team on five different occasions and also served as an assistant with Team Central.   This winter, he will present at the US Lacrosse National Convention for the 5th time.  Previous topics have focused on various aspects of individual and team defense.

Internationally, Chris has traveled to Europe to coach and play in various lacrosse tournaments including the Prague Cup, Amsterdam Lowlands Tournament and Berlin Open.  This summer he will take a team back to the Prague Cup. 

Chris is Double-Goal certified by the Positive Coaching Alliance.

Andrew Fink has established himself as one of the most successful coaches in New England college lacrosse. He is also the General Manager of the Boston Storm, a women's professional lacrosse team that competes in the United Women's Lacrosse League.

Currently in his 13th year as the Head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Mount Ida College (14th year with the program overall), Fink has compiled an overall record of 140-68 and has led the Mustangs to eight conference championships, two of them since the Mustangs joined the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in 2011. In 2015, Fink led the Mustangs to an 11-5 record, including a ten-game winning streak, and helped them reach the GNAC championship game for the fourth time in five years. That game marked the eleventh season in which Fink and the Mustangs appeared in their conference title game, as they made seven appearances in the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship, winning six straight between 2004 and 2009.

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While members of the NAC, Fink compiled a regular season record of 56-1, and began a streak of eight seasons in which he coached the team to double-digit victories, including a program-record 15 victories in 2012, when they repeated as GNAC champs in just their second year in the conference. Fink, whose teams have made four trips to the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse tournament, also serves as the Athletic Department's Recruiting and Retention Coordinator and as a liaison between athletics and admissions at Mount Ida.

Fink played his college lacrosse at the University of Hartford, graduating in 2001 with a degree in communications from the College of Arts and Sciences. As a four-year varsity player and three-year starter, Fink played defense for Hartford. In his junior campaign, the Hawks earned the American East Conference regular season title.A graduate of Rocky Hill High School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Fink earned all-league and all-state honors in lacrosse.

The NAC Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2010 and GNAC Coach of the Year in 2011, Fink was also honored as Mount Ida College's "Coach-of-the-Year" twice, honored by the Mustangs in 2009 and 2011. Fink and his coaching staff presented this year for the fifth time at the U.S. Lacrosse National Convention, with topics including "Offense vs. Defense - Strategy and Adjustments", "Team Defense", and Man-Down Defense" in Baltimore, Maryland. Fink and his staff's presentation at the 2015 convention in Baltimore was on "Defense with your Hands."

Fink also skippers two travel teams and will travel to Prague, Czech Republic for the sixth time with his international team to compete in the Prague Cup.

aefink@mountida.edu