Richard Bartozzi

Richie Bartozzi joined the Next Level Lacrosse Program in 2014 and has served as a director since 2021. A 2020 Denison University graduate, Coach Bartozzi was a Four-year starter playing both LSM and Close Defense while leading the Big Red to three NCAC championships as well as a Division III 2017 Final Four appearance.  A First Team IMLCA All American and First Team All-NCAC selection, he was named IMLCA’s All-West Region 2019 Defensive Player of the Year. Coach Bartozzi missed out on his senior season due to Covid and returned to his alma mater, The Heights, as an associate Head Coach in 2021.  As a player at The Heights School in Potomac, Maryland, he earned All-MILL First Team honors three times, was named First Team All-Gazette, and was the Montgomery County Player of the Year Runner Up.  A US Lacrosse All American, Coach Bartozzi was the first lacrosse player from The Heights to be named First Team All-Met.  Over the last three years, Coach Bartozzi has invested countless hours coaching youth club lacrosse. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and enjoys golfing, playing pick-up basketball, and camping when he is not on the field coaching.

Matt Howell

Coach Howell was a two-sport athlete in football and lacrosse at Walt Whitman High School. In lacrosse, he was a four-year varsity player and three-year starter. He was named team captain his senior year, and during that year was named to the first-team all-division, first-team all-county, and led the state of Maryland in ground balls. He opted not to play college lacrosse and attended the University of South Carolina. Coach Howell started coaching for Next Level when he was a freshman in high school and has been coaching lacrosse for Next Level for ten years. He is currently a Realtor with Coakley Realty and actively flips houses in the DMV & Bethany Beach. In 2022, Coach Howell became the Assistant Coach at Whitman High School for the Girl’s Varsity team.

Nick Hayman

Nick Hayman is the assistant coach of the 2034 team.  With over 20 years of coaching lacrosse, including 15 seasons as a varsity assistant at Gonzaga College High School Coach Hayman has helped develop players at the highest level of high school lacrosse. Over 15 seasons Gonzaga won 9 WCAC Championships and was consistently ranked in the National top 25 team rankings including four-time top-three National rankings.  Coach Hayman also served as the head coach of the Aspen Lacrosse Club 2^nd/3^rd grade team from 2022-2023.

Coach Hayman attended high school at Gonzaga where he was a Varsity letterman in both Football and Lacrosse. Following Gonzaga he attended Bridgton Academy for a Post Graduate year before going on to play Division I lacrosse at Boston College where he was a two year starter playing both midfield and attack. He graduated in 2001 with a degree in Economics. Coach Hayman and his wife Kim have three children and live in Northwest DC.