Sky Sanderson is in his eighth season with the Hamline lacrosse team during the 2022-23 academic year.
Dr. Sanderson’s lacrosse playing career started in high school (Pomfret, Connecticut, ‘89) as a goalie. He went on to Hobart College (’93) and played there for one and a half seasons before transitioning to become an assistant student goalie coach with the NCAA Division III, William Smith Herons. He balanced his chemistry major while he coached with the Herons for three seasons, on the staff of Pat Genovese. The Herons were state champions and went to the NCAA championship tournament each year during his tenure.
During his medical school training in Syracuse, New York he was given the opportunity to coach again for the Fayetteville-Manlius girls’ lacrosse team, under head coach Kathy Taylor in 1998. His professional training led him and his family to Rochester, Minnesota where his coaching career got underway again, coaching with the high school girls’ team, as an assistant to his wife Maureen. He and his family moved to the metro area in 2011 and he has worked with goalies and players in various club programs, clinics, and high school teams prior to joining the Hamline staff.
Coach Sky devotes his time on the field principally to the goalies but feels that if you can teach how to make saves, you can also teach how to score, and with that finds himself involved in coaching almost all aspects of the game His philosophy: it’s about the little things, the details of play, that make a successful player, team, and program. When he is not coaching, he spends his time at his other job in his professional medical career as a pathologist.
