FRONT OFFICE STAFF
Troy Becker
Clippers Director
Becker is the current Director of Clippers and serves as the GM of Club Operations for the Eighteen Collective. Over the first 3 years, Clippers has nearly doubled in size, reaching 14 teams and encompassing 330+ families. During this time, the club has risen to national recognition, with multiple teams being ranked in the top 50 in the country and taking home numerous Spring HoCo and summer tournament titles, including NAL, Millon, Adrenaline, Crabfeast, and more.
Outside of Clippers, Becker is well ingrained in the High School and National team circuit. He currently serves as the offensive coordinator at Archbishop Spalding and helped lead the group to a #3 ranking in the country in 2025, along with MIAA semi-final appearances in 2024 and 2026. In addition to Clippers and Spalding, Troy has held a Co-Director role of 18 National, a national team offering competing in The Circuit and other national events, and Frogmen, a Maryland based box lacrosse offering for high school and youth players.
Rob Heffron
Clippers Assistant Director
Heffron has served as the Clippers assistant director for the last two years. Prior to Clippers, he served as assistant coach at Wagner College, where the Seahawks set a program records for conference wins and finished among the top twenty nationally in man-down defense. He previously spent three seasons at Ferrum College as an assistant coach, defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, running day-to-day operations, team travel and recruiting. A Bowie, Maryland native, Heffron played at Wagner from 2015 to 2018 and served as director of camps at Blue Star Lacrosse in Princeton, New Jersey, where he handled staffing and development programming for week-long camps.
Benin Bembry
Director of Player Development
Bembry is a co-director of Eighteen National and a US Lacrosse Level III certified coach. He has served as offensive coordinator at Centennial High School in Maryland, youth director at Zingos Lacrosse Club, head coach at the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, offensive coordinator at Howard Community College and director of lacrosse at Camp Cobbossee. A graduate of The Phelps School in Malvern, Pennsylvania and a US Lacrosse National Senior Showcase selection, he was a three-year letterwinner at UMBC, a two-time America East champion and a three-time NCAA tournament participant.
Kyle Harrison
Strategic Advisor
Harrison is one of the most decorated players in the history of the sport. A Baltimore native, he captained the undefeated 2005 Johns Hopkins national championship team and won the 2005 Tewaaraton Award as the best player in college lacrosse. He was the first overall pick in the 2005 MLL draft, played seventeen professional seasons across the MLL and the Premier Lacrosse League, and represented the United States national team twice. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2023.
Dakota Downs
Faceoff Director
Mikey Marinelli
Goalies Coach
Nick Gallagher
Speed, Agility, Quickness Coach
Cole Pellacano
Goalies Coach