Bill Schmoldt – Cleveland Director

Coach Schmoldt is in his third year as Cleveland Director, and has been a part of Cleveland lacrosse for over 25 years. He graduated from St. Ignatius high school, where he played lacrosse and hockey, and then from Marquette University in 2001, playing lacrosse for 4 years, with 2 years as captain, there. After graduation, Bill went back to his alma mater, teaching communications classes and coaching lacrosse at Saint Ignatius High School for 11 years. He went on to become the head coach at John Carroll University until 2012, helping the team make the national tournament and jump to varsity status. He then coached at Oberlin College where he was the defensive coordinator from 2012-2015. In his 3 years at Oberlin, the team had its best run in 20 years, with a combined record of 24-19.  In 2015 Bill, started the men’s lacrosse program at Heidelberg University and coached for 5 years, coaching 4 all conference,12 academic all conference winners and is the winningest coach in school history.

He has coached with Resolute for 6 years since it started in Cleveland. In 2021, he became the Cleveland Director at Resolute and an assistant coach at Baldwin Wallace, where he works primarily with specialists. In the last 3 years BW has gone a combined 40-13, with three OAC regular season titles and championship game appearances, with 32 all OAC players, and he has coached the rookie of the year and 2x all conference players at the faceoff X.

In addition, he has played with the Cleveland lacrosse club and Cleveland Demons box team, run a high school lacrosse league for 20+ years, helped with the youth and high school lacrosse on the west side of Cleveland as well as playing and coached youth hockey. Coach Schmoldt lives in Lakewood with his two children Jay (19) and Ava (18) and his doberman Roxie, where lacrosse is a family sport- Jay plays defense for Capital University, and Ava is a varsity D and goalie for Lakewood high school.

Email: bill@resolutelacrosse.com.