Returning home is a theme this year in sports and we could not be happier to hear the news that Jake Bernhardt is returning to Lake Brantley as its new head coach of lacrosse.  As many of you know, Jake has followed a desire to coach having accomplished a lot in a short period of time at Windemere Prep with his brother Jesse (who just became an assistant coach at Rutgers) before returning to Maryland last year.  Jake had accepted the position as an assistant coach at St. Andrew’s under new head coach Tony Seaman when he unexpectedly received the Lake Brantley offer.  The chance to coach his younger brother Jared and return home proved to be a once in a lifetime opportunity he could not turn down and we wish him the very best! Below are some excerpts from an email sent to the Lake Brantley family: “For those of you who don’t know Coach Bernhardt he was a two time All-American at Lake Brantley, an Under Armour All-American and a captain at the University of Maryland, leading the Terps to two NCAA Final appearances.  He currently plays professionally in the MLL for the Ohio Machine.  Most of you already know most of what I just outlined, but what you may not know janty electronic cigarette is that in addition to playing lacrosse at the game’s highest level he is also an accomplished coach and leader. Coach Bernhardt has coached at the prep school level with great success at Windermere Prep before being called back to the University of Maryland where he was director of lacrosse operations.  Most recently Coach Bernhardt elected to “come home” and take over the lacrosse program at Lake Brantley rather than begin a career at the St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton.   I hope this hits home… when a top prep school wanted to greatly improve its lacrosse program they recruited CB, when arguably the top NCAA lacrosse program in history wanted a new staff leader it came after CB, and when the most successful high school lacrosse program in the state of Florida went looking for a new coach they offered the position to CB… what a significant WIN for Lake Brantley, to have Coach Bernhardt back home, and leading our program. In addition to his coaching duties CB joins the teaching faculty at Lake Brantley this week.  Players, be sure to welcome him as you see him around campus. Note to Players… you may have known him as Jake growing up, TODAY and for what I hope is a very long time he is COACH BERNHARDT!” We could not have said it better ourselves.