Team Details

Head Coach Bill Daye joined Thayer Athletics as the Director of Boys’ Lacrosse and Head Coach of the Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse team in January 2023. He has worked for NIKE for 11 years, where he currently serves as the company’s Director of Team College/Promo for North America. He coaches at Laxachusetts Lacrosse Club (LXC), developing players of all ages, coaching their 9th grade AA team and working closely with LXC’s goalies. He is also a girl’s youth lacrosse coach for Hingham Girls’ Youth Lacrosse and serves as a member on the USA Lacrosse fundraising board.

Coach Daye’s experiences and list of accomplishments in lacrosse are both exceptional and many.  Coach Daye: 

Coach Daye joins a rich family legacy of Thayer Tigers that includes his wife Alison, Class of 1991, his father-in-law Steve Losordo '66 and his brother-in-law Stephen Losordo '93. 

A 1993 graduate of Thayer Academy, and a member of the Thayer Athletics Hall of Fame, Chris has a long history as an active alumni and advocate for Thayer Academy and the lacrosse program. He has been playing and coaching lacrosse for thirty years. He grew up in Norwell and played soccer, lacrosse, and ice hockey at Thayer. He went on to play lacrosse at University of Vermont (1997) and was a two-year captain as a midfielder. He was selected to the NEILA East/West Game his senior season. Chris started coaching high school in Portsmouth, NH from 2003-2008. In 2008, the PHS varsity team went to the NH State Finals and he was voted NH Division III Coach of the Year. He moved back to Norwell in 2009 and has been very active in the Eastern Massachusetts lacrosse community; both as a high school coach (Norwell High Head Coach from 2010-13 and Hingham High Assistant Coach from 2014-17), and as a founding director of the Kings Lacrosse club. Chris currently lives in Norwell with his family and works as a director for Kings Lacrosse.