GRASSROOTS INITIATIVES & NU-TEXAS HEAD COACH
NU Develop Your Game Initiative (Culture of Caring Accreditation / Program Development/ Ambassador Deployment)
Coach Song has played lacrosse since his childhood in Virginia, and he has coached the sport for over a decade to youth through varsity high school and college players.
Coach Song is currently the head coach at Westside HS in Houston, TX, earning THSLL Coach of the Year in 2019. Since inheriting the program in the 2018-19 school year, he has coached six THSLL All-stars, five have graduated to play in college, with more than a dozen scholarship offers. With the West Houston Lacrosse Association, Coach Song has engaged new parks and recreation centers to adopt lacrosse, as well as conducted free clinics and grassroots efforts to expand the sport to diverse youth.
In 2018-19, Song served as an assistant coach at the University of Houston.
Prior to Westside, Coach Song was Director of Boys and Girls Lacrosse/Boys Head Coach at Long Beach Polytechnic HS, named one of the top ten sports schools in the country according to ESPN. At Poly, Coach Song launched the program and graduated it from a club to a CIF school sport, earning an overall coaching record of 43-25 (.632), including a startup season of 7-6 with all first-time players. At Poly, Coach Song earned his players over a dozen scholarship offers in the four-year program history, and he also developed Long Beach Youth Lacrosse, a youth and feeder program offering lacrosse to minorities and lower income families.
Prior to LB Poly, Coach Song served as Varsity Assistant and JV Head at Mira Costa HS in Manhattan Beach, CA, where he led the team to an 11-1 record.
As a player, Michael was a midfielder for the Korea National Team in the 2002 World Lacrosse Championships, starting all games including Sweden, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Wales, and Ireland. In college, Michael attended Lehigh University, where he played for the men’s lacrosse club and earned NCLL All-Star accolades, as well as competing in the NCLL national championship tournament two times, reaching both semi-finals and quarter-finals in ’97 and ’01 respectively.
