Paul
Ramsey, is the owner
& president of East West Sports Camps. He has been directing
camps
for fourteen years. Paul is the head women's lacrosse coach at
Pepperdine University. Prior to taking over at Pepperdine he was
an assistant coach at Hofstra
University and he was head coach at College of the Holy Cross from 1998
- 2002.
He coached at UC Santa Barbara and Westmont College in Santa Barbara
before
guiding Holy Cross to the most successful five year stint in the
history
of the pogram. Holy Cross is an NCAA Division I program which
competes
in the Patriot League, a non-scholarship conference similar to the Ivy
League.
Ramsey built Holy Cross into a competitive program. The team's
five
year win total before he arrived was 11. During his tenure the program
won
39 games. In 2001 Holy Cross recorded the most wins in school
history
with a 13-7 record and garnered an 11-7 upset of Villanova in the
Patriot
League Tournament Semifinals. Other notable upsets during his tenure
include
wins over Boston College, Bucknell, Colgate, Duquesne, Hofstra, Lehigh
and
UConn.
Ramsey's tenure was more than wins and losses for the Crusaders. He held outreach clinics for local teams just getting their programs started in Central Massachussetts. Holy Cross ran fall clinics for beginners as well as indoor winter clinics and a spring clinic for all levels. A February coaches clinic was a staple and 15 to 20 local high school coaches regularly took advantage of it.
At UCSB Ramsey won two Western Women's Lacrosse League titles and coached the Gauchos to a 46-7 overall record over three seasons. At Westmont, Ramsey led the team to an 11-5 record for their first winning season and their first play-off appearance. Development was part of the program wherever he coached. Every Condor League (Santa Barbara County) girl's lacrosse team got started with clinics he organized, with the exception of Laguna Blanca, a recent addition. While living in Southern California, Ramsey started the Western Women's Lacrosse League with 8 charter members in 1991 in a cooperative effort with then Stanford head coach Heidi Faith. He was also the first President of the Southern California Women's Lacrosse Association, under the old U.S. Women's Lacrosse Association, now part of U.S. Lacrosse.
