About Coach Topakas:
- Played 3 sports at Mountain Lakes HS (soccer, basketball, lacrosse) and graduated in ’99.
- 1,000 point scorer in basketball and First Team All State Lacrosse as a Goalie
- Got recruited to TCNJ to play basketball and walked on to the lacrosse team in 2004.
- Dual sport athlete and a graduated a lacrosse All American and captain in both sports.
- After graduating TCNJ in 2003 went back to Mountain Lakes High School to coach freshman girls basketball and was an assistant girls lacrosse coach
- In 2008 took over as the head coach for the Girls Lacrosse program.
- In 2009 competed in the state final against Moorestown after winning the school’s first group title in history and earned Coach of the Year honors for NJ.
- Won Morris County Championships in 2013,2014, 2016 and 2017
- Won Sectional titles in 2009, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2022 and 2023
- Won Group 1 titles in 2009 and 2014
- Amassed over 200 wins at ML
- Co Founder of Foundations Lacrosse which caters to grades K-2 in Mountain Lakes and Boonton Township
- Currently a 4th grade teacher in Mountain Lakes and a coach in the ML Girls Youth Lacrosse and Basketball programs