University of Scranton Men's Lacrosse

Sage has had 17 players earn All-Landmark Conference honors, including Tim Cleary, who repeated as honorable mention All-American by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) for his play at long-stick midfield in 2013, and Ryan Millard, who was also named honorable mention All-American by the USILA in 2015 at long-stick midfield. In addition, Cleary in 2013, John Gregitis in 2014, Millard in 2015 and Brad Elkin in 2016 have been named Scholar All-American by the USILA, the only Royals in program history to earn this distinction. Prior to his appointment at Scranton, Sage spent the previous two seasons as the top assistant coach, recruiting coordinator and assistant strength and conditioning coach at Gettysburg College, where the Bullets finished the 2012 season ranked 20th in the NCAA Division III rankings. During his stint at Gettysburg, Sage was responsible for coaching the defense, face-offs and man-down defense. Off the field, his responsibilities included travel arrangements, scouting opponents, practice planning, tracking student-athletes academics and overseeing the strength and conditioning programs. He was also the campus contact and board member of Friends of Gettysburg Lacrosse. Sage spent three stints on the coaching staff at Gettysburg, the first in 2002 when he helped the Bullets go 17-2 and reach the NCAA Division III national title game while serving as offensive coordinator. After stepping away from the college game to serve as a high school athletics director for four years, he began his coaching career in earnest as the second assistant at Gettysburg in the fall of 2006, where he was also an intern in the sports information office. He helped the Bullets go 33-6 over two seasons, both ending in NCAA tournament losses to top-ranked Salisbury. While working with the defense, Sage coached Centennial Conference Players of the Year in both 2007 (goalie Pat Vaughn) and 2008 (defenseman Andrew McGann). When a chance to be the top assistant at Drew University came around, Sage jumped on it prior to the 2009 season. In one year in Madison, New Jersey, Sage served as recruiting coordinator and helped the Rangers go 9-8 and earn a spot in the Landmark Conference and ECAC Metro/South tournaments. On the field, he was in charge of the defense, face-offs, man-down defense, man-up offense and the substitution box. Off the field, he monitored student-athletes academics, planned practices, scouted opponents, prepared travel itineraries, fundraised for a spring break trip and supervised the strength and conditioning program. Sage then took the same position at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, also one of the top Division III programs in the country. With the help of Sages guidance, the Ducks went 9-6 in 2010. He was in charge of game and practice planning, scouting reports and travel itineraries, as well on on-field duties that included coaching the offense, face-offs and man-up offense. From Stevens, Sage returned to Gettysburg for the 2011 season and helped long-time head coach Hank Janczyk lead the Bullets to a 23-14 record in two years, including NCAA tournament appearances both seasons. With Sage coaching the defense, Gettysburg knocked off Scranton in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 2011, pulling away in the second half for an 8-3 win. The Bullets also won a first-round game in the tournament in 2012. Prior to his second stint at Gettysburg, Sage was the athletics director at Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, New Jersey, from 2002 to 2006. He served as the girls lacrosse coach there in 2003 and also coached the boys lacrosse team at nearby St. Josephs Regional High School in Montvale, New Jersey, from 2003-2006. Sage starred on the lacrosse field at Gettysburg College from 1995-1998, playing in the midfield and helping the Bullets reach the NCAA semifinals in both 1995 and 1997. He also played Centennial Conference championship teams in 1995 and 1998, and served as a team captain in 1998. He graduated from Gettysburg with a bachelors degree in environmental science in the spring of 1998. He is currently working toward a masters in business administration at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Prior to his college career, Sage was an all-state lacrosse player at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Sage is also coach, director and founder of Next Level Lacrosse and Gamerz Lacrosse located in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Tim Cleary (honorable mention, 2013) Ryan Millard (honorable mention, 2015) Tim Cleary (2013) John Gregitis (2014) Ryan Millard (2015) Brad Elkin (2016) Tim Cleary (1st team, 2013) Mike Deliberti (1st team, 2014; 2nd team, 2013) Adam Drury (1st team, 2016) Brad Elkin (2nd team, 2015; 1st team, 2016) Matt Finor (1st team, 2015; 2nd team, 2013, 2014) John Gregitis (1st team, 2014) Will Mahle (1st team, 2015) Dillon McInerney (1st team, 2013) Nicholas McKaba (1st team, 2014, 2015; 2nd team, 2016) Peter Meehan (2nd team, 2015) Alec Mikrut (1st team, 2014, 2016; 2nd team, 2015) Ryan Millard (1st team, 2014) Taylor Nelson (1st team, 2013) Ryan Saraceni (1st team, 2014) Gus Sturm (2nd team, 2014) Brendan Synan (2nd team, 2013) Ben Worthington (2nd team, 2013)

Career record: 78-52 (.600); Landmark Conference: 41-9 (.820) 2023, 2024 & 2025 Landmark Conference Champions & NCAA Tournament Second Round participant Led Scranton to its third straight Landmark Title and the second ever NCAA Tournament game win with a 20-8 win over Immaculata  In 2024, helped lead the Royals to the first NCAA Tournament victory in program history with a 10-9 overtime win versus John Carroll Scranton also tied the single-season program record with 14 victories in 2023 & 2024 2021 Landmark Conference Coach of the Year Has led Scranton to four other Landmark Conference postseason appearances in his tenure as Royals coach (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022) Posted seven winning seasons (2018: 10-7; 2019: 10-8; 2021: 5-3; 2022: 11-7; 2023: 14-6; 2024: 14-8; 2025: 12-9) Has guided six student-athletes to IMLCA/USILA All-American accolades Coached 34 All-Landmark Conference selections in four seasons, including three Landmark Player of the Year honorees, one Defensive Player of the Year winner and one Rookie of the Year selection Head coach, The University of Scranton (2017-present) Assistant coach, Roanoke College, (2016-2017) Assistant coach, York College (2011-2016) B.S., Business Management, Eastern University (2010) Michael Hofmeister was hired as the University’s head men’s lacrosse coach on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.  In his first eight seasons at Scranton, he has led the Royals to 78 wins, three Landmark Conference titles and three NCAA Tournament appearances. Scranton captured its third straight Landmark Conference title with a 10-6 win over Elizabethtown and followed that up with an NCAA Tournament game win for the second straight year as the Royals soundly defeated Immaculata 20-8 in the first round. Senior defender Zachariah Palinkas earned Landmark Conference Defensive Player of the year and garnered USILA All-American honors. 2024 saw the Royals capture a second consecutive Landmark Conference title with a decisive 17-6 victory over Elizabethtown in the Landmark title game and the program's first NCAA Tournament victory with a 10-9 overtime win against John Carroll. Both senior attacker Matthew McAree and graduate student defender Colin Pierce garnered USILA All-American honors.  Scranton toppled Elizabethtown in a 13-12 thriller to capture the second Landmark title in program history in 2023 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Royals posted a single-season record 14 victories and saw seven players earn All-Conference honors including senior Christopher Crapanzano who went on to become the second two-time USILA All-American in program history.  In 2022, the Royals won seven of their final eight down the stretch to earn the No. 3 seed in the Landmark Conference Tournament and posted a 5-2 mark in league play. Scranton was a force to be reckoned with offensively as they scored 15 or more goals on eight different occasions including a program-record tying 28 goals in a 28-3 victory over Goucher. Six Royals went on to earn All-Landmark honors and Crapanzano garnered USILA Honorable Mention All-American accolades.  The 2021 season saw Hofmeister earn Landmark Conference Coach of the Year accolades after leading the Royals to five victories and a spot back in the Landmark Conference semifinals. Throughout the year, the Royals knocked off Elizabethtown for the first time since the 2014 season and collected a dominating Landmark Conference playoff victory over Drew at home (22-1) to move into the conference semifinals. In 2021, Hofmeister coached five student-athletes to All-Landmark Conference accolades, as senior Collin Purdy was named to the USILA Division III All-American team as an honorable mention choice. Although the 2020 season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hofmeister had navigated the Royals through a challenging early slate that featured five of their six games away from Scranton. The team also put up valliant efforts against tough opponents such as RPI, Montclair State, and nationally-ranked Cortland (all on the road). In 2019, Hofmeister guided Scranton to a 10-8 overall record including a 5-1 mark in conference action.  The Royals secured the #2 seed in the Landmark Conference playoffs and a home semifinal contest after suffering the only conference loss during the regular season to eventual league champion Elizabethtown.  Following the season, five Royals collected All-Landmark Conference honors highlighted by junior midfielder Michael Elefonte, who was named the Landmark Conference Offensive Player of the Year before being honored as an IMLCA All-South Region Honorable Mention selection and a USILA Honorable Mention All-American. During his first season at Scranton in 2018, Hofmeister led the Royals to a 10-7 record and a Landmark Conference playoff appearance.  The Royals went 4-2 in conference games during the regular season before dropping a 13-7 decision to top-seeded Susquehanna in the conference semifinals.  Scranton placed seven players earned All-Landmark Conference honors while seniors Conor Carey, Adam Drury, and Adam Maiale earned All-South Region accolades from the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Association. Hofmeister came to Scranton after spending the previous six seasons as an assistant at two of the top programs in the region. He spent the 2017 season as an assistant at Roanoke, helping the Maroons go 12-4 and finish tied for first in the regular season in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC). Prior to that, he was an assistant at York (Pa.) for five seasons, where he helped the Spartans go a combined 66-29 and win the Capital Athletic Conference title in 2016. A 2010 graduate of Eastern University where he was a team captain and an all-conference selection on the lacrosse field, Hofmeister has extensive experience both on and off the field. At Roanoke, he ran the team’s office and man-up units as the Maroons averaged 15.88 goals per game last season. He also served as the recruiting coordinator and helped prepare scouting reports for each opponent. During his time at York, Hofmeister worked with the offense on a daily basis and ran the substitution box during games. He was also instrumental in recruiting, scouting, practice planning and alumni and parent relations. In 2017 at Roanoke, Hofmeister was part of a program that produced five United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-Americans, one USILA Scholar All-American, one North/South All-Star, 11 all-ODAC players and the ODAC Rookie of the Year. The Maroons also spent eight weeks ranked in the top 20, climbing as high as 15th at one point. In his five seasons at York, Hofmeister helped the Spartans go from 9-7 in his first season to 18-4 and a CAC championship by 2016, a season that included a trip to the NCAA quarterfinals, eight wins against nationally ranked opponents and a school record for wins in a season. During Hofmeister’s time there, York advanced to the CAC semifinals each season and had four of its six winningest seasons in program history, its first two NCAA Tournament appearance and its first NCAA Tournament victory. He coached the CAC Rookie of the Year three times as well as 11 All-Americans, five USILA Scholar All-Americans, five North/South All-Stars, one CAC Player of the Year, one CAC Scholar Athlete of the Year and 24 all-CAC honorees. He has extensive experience as a coach and presenter at numerous lacrosse camps and was the director of the Nike Lacrosse Offense Defense Challenge Camp in Texas and Virginia in 2017. United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Scholar All-American Selections (17) Conor Carey (2018) Adam Drury (2018) Adam Maiale (2018) Michael Elefonte (2020) Gordon Paul (2020) Michael Grant (2022) Cole Lukasiewicz (2022) Christopher Crapanzano (2023) Mitchell Kozak (2023) Colin Pierce (2023, 2024) Ryan Turck (2023) Kyle Bennett (2024) Joe Boyle (2024) Alex Eglitis (2024) Matthew McAree (2024) Zachariah Palinkas (2025) United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-American Selections (6) Michael Elefonte (2019, Honorable Mention) Collin Purdy (2021, Honorable Mention) Christopher Crapanzano (2022, Honorable Mention; 2023, 3rd team) Matthew McAree (2024, Honorable Mention) Colin Pierce (2024, Honorable Mention) Zachariah Palinkas (2025, Honorable Mention) Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) All-Region Selections (5) Conor Carey (2018, Honorable Mention) Adam Drury (2018, 2nd team) Adam Maiale (2018, Honorable Mention) Michael Elefonte (2019, Honorable Mention) Christopher Crapanzano (2023, Honorable Mention) Landmark Conference Player of the Year Selections (4) Michael Elefonte (2019, Offensive) Christopher Crapanzano (2023, Offensive) Colin Pierce (2024, Defensive) Zachariah Palinkas (2025, Defensive) Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year Selections (1) Myles McCutcheon (2024) All-Landmark Conference Selections (31) Kyle Bennett (2024, Honorable Mention) Joe Boyle (2023, 1st team; 2024, 2nd team) Conor Carey (2018, 1st team) Quinn Carson (2025, 2nd team) Connor Cole (2025, 2nd team) Christopher Crapanzano (2021, 2022 & 2023, 1st team) Tim Dolan (2018, 2019 2nd team) Adam Drury (2018, 1st team) Alex Eglitis (2024, 1st team; 2023, 2nd team) Michael Elefonte (2019, 1st team) Colin Giarrusso (2025, 1st team) Kyle Holmes (2025, 1st team) Carsen Kirchner (2025, 1st team) Connor Kirkwood (2018, 1st team; 2019, 2nd team) Jason Kozak (2025, 1st team) Mitchell Kozak (2022, 1st team; 2023, 2nd team) Andrew Lord (2024, 2nd team) Adam Maiale (2018, 1st team) Matthew McAree (2024, 1st team; 2022 & 2023, 2nd team) Mike Modesti (2018, 1st team) John O'Connor (2025, Honorable Mention) Zach Palinkas (2025, 1st team; 2024, Honorable Mention)  Gordon Paul (2019, 2nd team) Colin Pierce (2023 & 2024, 1st team; 2022, 2nd team) Thomas Popolizio (2025, 1st team) Kieran Pues (2018, 1st team) Collin Purdy (2019 & 2021, 1st team) Liam Sayre (2025, Honorable Mention) Ryan Turck (2021 & 2023, 1st team; 2022, 2nd team) Cole Lukasiewicz (2022, 1st team; 2021, 2nd team) Michael Grant (2021, 2nd team)

Sloma , a native of Niskayuna, N.Y., and a 2013 graduate of SUNY Potsdam, joined the Royals coaching staff in the fall of 2014. At SUNY Potsdam, he was a four-year letterman on the Bears mens lacrosse team and started in goal his senior year, where he recorded a 6-8 win-loss record, an 8.9 goals against average, and a .588 save percentage.  He also played 762 out of a possible 850 minutes and served as team co-captain.  In addition, he earned second-team All-State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) honors in 2013 and was named the Bears most valuable player (MVP) on defense.   He was also named the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Defensive Player of the Week and the SUNYAC Goalie of the Week for the period ending April 17 on the strength of his 24-save performance in a 5-4 loss to Oneonta St. on April 13 and 13-save effort in a 10-4 loss to St. Lawrence on April 15. In the classrom,  Sloma was named to the Deans List honors twice and earned SUNYAC All-Academic honors for the 2013 fall semester.  He served as a representative for the mens lacrosse team on the Athletic Leadership Council for the 2013 academic year, a community-service group that organized the first Bears Olympics, a department-wide Olympic-style event in which more than 200 student-athletes participated.  He also volunteered within the athletics department, taking part with in a Habitat for Humanity project, participating in the annual Potsdam leaf-ranking and spring clean-up days, and assisting with event management at three indoor lacrosse tournaments. Last spring, Sloma served as a volunteer assistant coach at his alma mater, specializing in the goalie position while helping the Bears post a 10-6 overall record, including a 4-2 conference mark.  During the summer of 2010, he served as a volunteer coach with the Albany Power Lacrosse Club where he worked with area coaches and players to mentor and coach children between the ages of 8-12 on the fundamentals of the game of lacrosse.  He has also worked at numerous summer camps throughout upstate New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from SUNY Potsdam.

Clay Arnold enters his third season as an assistant coach for The University of Scranton men's lacrosse team in 2026. Scranton captured its third straight Landmark Conference title with a 10-6 win over Elizabethtown and followed that up with an NCAA Tournament game win for the second straight year as the Royals soundly defeated Immaculata 20-8 in the first round. Senior defender Zachariah Palinkas earned Landmark Conference Defensive Player of the year and garnered USILA All-American honors. 2024 saw the Royals capture a second consecutive Landmark Conference title with a decisive 17-6 victory over Elizabethtown in the Landmark title game and the program's first NCAA Tournament victory with a 10-9 overtime win against John Carroll. Both senior attacker Matthew McAree and graduate student defender Colin Pierce earned USILA All-American honors.  Arnold joined The University of Scranton from Castleton University where he served as a graduate assistant. He also made stops at Juniata College where he was the interim head coach for a year and SUNY Oswego where he was an assistant coach. Arnold played professionally in the PBLA with the New England Chowerhead Player in 2022-23. He played collegiately at UMASS Boston where he led the team in both goals and points in 2017 and 2018. In 2018 he earned Second Team All-Little East Conference honors and was named to the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-Academic Team. In 2017 he was the NCAA D3 Statistical Champion for highest shooting percentage (61.8%). In 2015, Arnold won a NJCAA National Championship while playing for Onondoga Community College. Arnold earned a B.S. degree in Health and Exercise Science from Syracuse University in 2021.