Buff Grubb
Camp Director
A Maryland-native, Coach Grubb started his lacrosse career in the 70s at the McDonogh School near Baltimore and earned a scholarship to play at Rutgers University.
Through the ‘80s, he was a certified referee, a founder of the Harford (MD) Lacrosse Club, and became the Associate Head Coach at Spaulding High School in Vermont. In the fall of 1992, Grubb joined the collegiate ranks as the Head Lacrosse Coach at the University of Tennessee, leading the Volunteers to four SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference (SELC) Championships and advancing 3 teams to the MCLA National Championships, and receiving SELC Coach of the Year honors (1994 & 1999) as well as the Ace Adams Sportsmanship Award. From 2002 to 2005, Grubb oversaw the emergence of the lacrosse program at Wake Forest University before taking over at Clemson University in the fall of 2005.
Receiving SELC Coach of the Year honors in 2008, 2011 and again in 2017, Coach Grubb has successfully developed the Clemson Tigers into a consistent contender in the SouthEastern Lacrosse Conference and an emerging national presence in the MCLA (Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association). In 2021 and 2022 he guided the Tigers to the MCLA National Tournament, finishing in the top 4 nationally each season. Coach Grubb stepped aside at Clemson after the 2022 season, his 17th as head coach. Instead of taking a well-earned respite, coach Grubb answered the call at JL Mann High School in Greenville, SC. He has led the Patriots to a 21-9 record to date and successive trips to the SC Lacrosse playoffs and was recognized as Regional Coach of the Year in 2022.
Coach Grubb has compiled over 300 victories as a head coach and produced winning teams 27 of his 32 seasons on the sidelines. Coach Grubb was enshrined in the SouthEastern Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2014, He volunteered his time off the sidelines helping the sport to grow throughout in the Southeast as the former President of the SELC and member of the Men’s Division Board of Governors of USA Lacrosse, the sport’s National Governing Body. Grubb is also a former President of the South Carolina Chapter of USA Lacrosse. He currently serves as Division I Director and Competition Coordinator for the Atlantic Lacrosse Conference of the MCLA.
US Sports Camps, Inc is extremely pleased to offer this camp with one of the most accomplished and knowledgeable coaches in the Southeast. Coach Grubb will also draw on over 20 years of summer camp coaching experience to offer a curriculum that will have an immediate impact on camper’s skills and knowledge of the sport.
“Our vision for this camp will focus on instruction,” states Coach Grubb, “working with our campers to improve not only their individual skills and sense of the game, but also their ability to contribute to team skills and success. Lacrosse is exploding in the southeast and we hope to make a solid and continuing contribution to the evolution and maturation of the sport in this region.”