Coach Boh Mitchell is the Boys Program General Manager and Co-Owner of Next Level Lacrosse. Boh was a two-sport varsity athlete at The Heights School where he played varsity lacrosse all four years and was captain his senior year. He was also awarded the Headmaster Award as a senior, the lacrosse Cavalier Award his senior year, and the golf Cavalier Award his junior year.
Boh attended Loyola University Maryland where he played four years of club lacrosse, was a 3-year starter, and team president his senior year. During his junior and senior years, Coach Boh was the defensive coordinator for the JV team at the Friends School in Baltimore. Boh graduated cum laude and was the recipient of the Ayn Rand award for the highest g.p.a. in the Philosophy department.
After college, Boh pursued a career in medicine. While completing the medical school prerequisites in a post-baccalaureate program at the University of Maryland, College Park, he worked in a research lab at Johns Hopkins University where he studied brain development and various mental disorders, specifically schizophrenia and PTSD. During this time he was also a part-time academic tutor and helped his brother, Dave, as an assistant coach for the Varsity team at The Heights School.
Boh finally decided to pursue coaching with Dave. He accepted his brother’s offer to help take over and run Next Level Lacrosse and joined the coaching staff full time as the defensive coordinator and Associate Head Coach at The Heights. He is now in his sixth year at Next Level and seventh year at The Heights where he was awarded the 2015 US Lacrosse “Assistant Coach of the Year.”
Boh@NextLevelSpartans.com
Get to know Boh!
1.Describe the best vacation you’ve ever been on.
I’ve been on some great ones, but one of my favorites was in the spring of 2015 when my wife and I spent a week out west in California. I had been to Rome 4 times in my life, but had never been west of Ohio. We spent a day in Carmel, three days in San Francisco, and two days in Napa Valley. It was a particularly special trip for us just one year into our marriage. I became a fan immediately of the Pacific and the people living there. From the seven-mile drive along the coast, to the Golden Gate Bridge, to the wine tasting, we had an absolute blast in an a part of the country that seemed so different from where I had lived my whole life: DC. I’ll always be a fan of the trips I’ve taken to Madrid, Prague, Florence, etc. but to finally go out and see a city as awesome as San Francisco and enjoy all the things these areas had to offer made this vacation particularly memorable.
2.You are headed into isolation for a month and can bring three items. What do you bring?
A Kindle, an iPod, and a speaker.
3.What is your favorite thing about Next Level?
My favorite thing about NL is the coaching staff I get to work with. Our boys program has a fantastic lineup of guys who love to coach the game but, more importantly, love hanging out with the players and with each other. Some of our players spend hours per week with Next Level coaches, so it’s important for us to have the right types of men who the players can get to know and enjoy being around. It’s a blast coaching with them and it makes being at work that much more enjoyable.
