Dan Lee was hired in late 2009 to be the first head coach of the Wheelock men's lacrosse program, which began play in 2011.

During the Wildcats' inaugural season, Lee guided the squad, which was comprised greatly of newcomers to the sport, through a 10-game schedule. In the team's season finale, Wheelock posted its strongest showing of the spring, a narrow 9-6 loss at Rivier College. Lee's starting goalkeeper finished fourth in Division III in saves per game.

Lee earned a master's degree in sport management from the University of Connecticut in the spring of 2009, as he was a graduate assistant with the football and men's basketball teams.

Lee is well-versed in lacrosse in many different capacities, both as an athlete at Division I College of the Holy Cross and, more recently, as an operations intern for Major League Lacrosse (MLL). At Holy Cross, Lee was named the team's most valuable player and rookie of the year as a freshman in 1998. He led the squad with 32 goals and 43 points that season, scoring on 50.1 percent of his shots, before tying for the team's scoring lead as a sophomore with 23 markers and collecting 33 points.

A sports director for an after-school program in the Sudbury Public Schools, Lee currently resides in Maynard with his wife, Beth.

A veteran college and youth coach, Chris Demarest heads into his second season as an assistant coach with Wheelock in 2012.

Prior to joining the Wildcat staff, Demarest served as an assistant coach at Mendham (N.J.) Township Middle School from 2008 to 2010. He began as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Centenary (N.J.) College, between 2002 and 2004 while simultaneously heading the Roxbury (N.J.) High School varsity program. From 2003 to 2007, Demarest also coached Jersey Thunder Lacrosse club teams at tournaments and, in 2007, was an assistant coach for the Morristown (N.J.) High School varsity girls' squad.

Demarest also gained camp experience from 2002 to 2005 at such institutions as Army, Navy, Princeton University and Rutgers University, as well as working the Four Star Lacrosse recruiting and skills camp and the Top 205 recruiting camp.

A former defenseman at Centenary, Demarest graduated in 2002 with a degree in business administration. As a senior, he helped the Cyclones go 11-4 while qualifying for their first Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament. Demarest served as an adjunct faculty member at Centenary between 2004 and 2010 and is currently a financial adviser.