Griffin Spotz is in his 16th year as a lacrosse head coach in GA and 13th as head coach at Walton High School. Previously, he played lacrosse in Illinois, playing defense and LSM for the University of Illinois MCLA Club team. He is the original coach that started the Duluth High School boy’s lacrosse team. Then in 2013, he founded the Dirty Birds Lacrosse program and built it open over a decade. At Walton he has gone to the Elite 8 seven separate times, as well as the Final Four four separate times. In 2019, Coach Spotz led the Raiders to a State Title, beating Lambert, 8-7 in the Championship game for the 6A-7A Dual Class Title. The Raiders finished the season ranked #1 in the state for all of GHSA Lacrosse, 1A – 7A, with a 21-2 record. They also finished the season ranked #3 in the Southeast by Inside Lacrosse Under Armour rankings. Their record of 7-1 against other teams that finished the season ranked in the Top 10 in the state will stand as a testament to how successful their 2019 season was. Coach Spotz was awarded the NFHS Boys Lacrosse Coach of the year for 2019 by the GHSA. In 2022, Coach Spotz led Walton to their first ever Region Title and Runner Up in the 6-7A GHSA Combined State Championship. In 2022, Coach Spotz also won MDJ Coach of the Year, which he previously received in 2014 and 2019 as well. Since the fall of 2022 he has served as the 7A (now 6A) Ad-Hoc Representative for Boys Lacrosse to the GHSA. His teams over the past decade and a half have been awarded multiple Academic All American, All State, and All-American honors, and produced multiple D1 and numerous D2 and D3 players.  Of highest importance to Coach Spotz is his tight knit relationship with his family unit of four: his wife Natalie, and children Rylan and Ivy. In 2022, Coach Spotz started the K1 age group for Walton Jr. Lacrosse and now coaches Rylan and the future 2035s!