This coach is not active for 2025.
| Statistics By Season | |||||||||||
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| Season | Team | Position | G | Overall | Conference | Playoff | Tournament | ||||
| 2024 | Claremont | Assistant Coach | 11 | 4 - 7 | 2 - 4 | 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 | ||||
| 2022 | Claremont | Defensive Coordinator | 8 | 3 - 5 | 2 - 2 | 0 - 1 | 0 - 0 | ||||
| 2021 | Claremont | Other | 1 | 0 - 0 - 2 | 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 | ||||
| 2020 | Claremont | Other | 11 | 3 - 4 - 8 | 1 - 2 - 2 | 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 | ||||
| 2019 | Claremont | Other | 13 | 5 - 8 | 2 - 3 | 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 | ||||
Chris Zessau, “Coach Z”, grew up locally playing a variety of high school and college sports including lacrosse. During his first ten years as a teacher at Downey High School, he coached lacrosse with Coach Witkin, serving as the defensive coordinator. As a Lacrosse player, Coach Z played for Loyola Marymount University. Coach Z began teaching at Downey High School in 2000 as the athletic trainer. Currently, he runs the sports medicine program he started over ten years ago. Coach Z has been married to his wife, Kerri, for over 20 years and together they have a eighteen year-old son, Gunner, and a Rottweiler, Jet.
