With playing and coaching experience from back East to the Far East, Lane Jaffe joins the Dominican lacrosse coaching staff for the 2012 season. He arrives at Dominican from the University of California Santa Barbara where he served as interim head coach for the Gauchos last season.
A native of Chester, N.J., Jaffe played goalie at Rutgers University where, in 1998, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. In 2004, he was inducted into the Newark Academy Athletic Hall of Fame for a high school All-American career that was capped when he earned 12 varsity letters and was named All-State in lacrosse, football and wrestling.
That same year, Jaffe moved to California to become the head lacrosse coach at UCLA. In 2006, he was named Western Collegiate Lacrosse League Coach of the Year. In 2007, Jaffe was named head coach at Palos Verdes High School. He was Bay League Coach of the Year that season and again in 2009. In 2010, Jaffe was selected as the West Coast representative to coach the Champion National High School All-Star Game.
Jaffe, who has a Master of Arts in Psychology from Antioch University, also has coached in Japan, Australia and Canada, bringing home two silver medals from the Asia Pacific Games.
In his coaching career, Jaffe has coached three MCLA All-Americans and four High School All-Americans. The son of Richard and Fredda Jaffe who reside in Santa Monica, Jaffe has an older brother, Ryan, who is a writer living in Hollywood.
