Kier LaCrosse, who now enters his fifth year with Academy of Art University men's soccer, is a native of San Francisco and was raised in San Mateo, California. LaCrosse’s soccer days started at the young age of 4-½ years old.
At San Mateo's Aragon High School, LaCrosse played varsity soccer all four years. He led the team to three league championships and two Central Coast Section (CCS) semi-final appearances. LaCrosse was named First Team All-Conference each of his four years at Aragon High. He was also named First Team All-CCS his sophomore, junior and senior years. In addition, LaCrosse was named to the All-State Team in his junior and senior seasons.
LaCrosse spent his collegiate years playing two seasons at Sonoma State University in 1985 and 1986 and then transferred to top-ten ranked Chico State University, playing in 1988 and 1989. He was awarded All-Conference Honors.
In the 1980’s, LaCrosse played for the SF Scotts, Guatemala and then for San Francisco Celtic - where he was named “Examiner Player of the Year” in 1986 as he led the league in scoring.
At the young age of 13, LaCrosse coached AYSO six-eight year olds in 1979. At fourteen, he directed and coached soccer programs at all four City of San Mateo’s Recreation Centers as his summer employment. This was the city's inaugural year for soccer programs.
During college summers, LaCrosse was a counselor and coach at both North Bay Soccer Camps in 1985 & 1986 and Mike Simon’s Team Challenge Soccer Camps from 1987-1989 where he ran programs in California and Nevada. LaCrosse also coached Chico State University’s NCAA Developmental Soccer Team to two undefeated seasons in 1986 and 1987.
Burlingame High School (1989) and Aragon High School (2002) also had the pleasure of retaining Kier LaCrosse as head coach.
In 2005, LaCrosse founded and was Director of Operations of Major League Stars Soccer Clinics. These advanced clinics were geared towards high school student-athlete soccer players with goals of moving on to the college level.
He brought aboard USA National Team Captain and World Cup 2006 USA standout Jimmy Conrad to help develop the program and to train student-athletes though positive coaching and positive reinforcement techniques.
For the past six years, LaCrosse has directed the Burlingame Men’s Soccer League which features many previous World Cup participants. LaCrosse was also player/manager for FC Allegra.
Currently, Kier LaCrosse is honored to assist high school rival and lifetime friend, head coach Daniel Rosaia, since the Academy of Art University's inaugural season. His goal is to help in the quest to improve the student-athlete experience for all ART U soccer players and ART U supporters.
