About our founder

From national champion to storyteller.

Two NCAA titles. A top-five pro draft pick. Ten years as a pro, Team USA, and 150-plus wins on the sideline. Sean Lindsay has lived the big moments. Now he's making sure every hometown legend gets theirs.

Sean Lindsay · Founder, Banner Years

Sean Lindsay in a Syracuse number 21 orange jersey, shouting with joy as he hoists the NCAA championship trophy over his head
Then Hoisting the NCAA trophy at Syracuse

The career

Six chapters, one game

  1. Westchester County, N.Y. · Class of 2000

    Hudson Valley roots

    Grew up in Cortlandt Manor and went to Van Cortlandtville Elementary, the field where the Cortlandt men's summer league and the Hudson Valley Empire State Games team played. Serious lacrosse, right outside the classroom. His dad, Jim Lindsay, coached Dobbs Ferry football.

    At Lakeland/Panas he was a four-year starter, a four-time All-Section pick, a two-time All-American and the all-time leading scorer in Lakeland Central School District history. He made the Hudson Valley Empire State Games team three times.

  2. Syracuse University · Class of 2004

    Two rings, two All-Americans

    Four straight Final Fours. Three national title games. Two championships, in 2002 and 2004.

    • Team captain as a senior
    • USILA All-American as a junior and senior, first team in 2004
    • 2004 NCAA All-Tournament Team
    • North/South Collegiate All-Star Game
  3. 2004–2014

    Pros & Team USA

    • No. 4 overall pick in the 2004 MLL Draft, by the Rochester Rattlers; started 20 of 22 games in two seasons
    • Traded to the Los Angeles Riptide in 2006. In 2007 he led the league in two-point goals, made the All-Star team and was named All-Pro, one of only three midfielders, as the Riptide had the best season in franchise history and reached the MLL title game
    • Also played for San Francisco, Denver and Long Island: 133 MLL points (98 goals, 13 of them two-pointers, and 35 assists)
    • Captained Maverik United on the LXM Pro Tour through 2014, his 10th pro season
    • One of 100 players invited to try out for the U.S. Men's National Team; 2006 Team USA alternate; played for Team USA against Duke at the 2007 Champions Challenge in Orlando
  4. 2011–2023

    Agoura High School

    Thirteen seasons as head coach. 150-plus wins, 13 straight CIF playoff appearances and a long line of All-Americans.

  5. 2023–present

    Oaks Christian School

    Head boys coach in Westlake Village, California. CIF Southern Section champions in 2023 and 2025, and he helped lead the girls program to the 2024 CIF-SS title.

  6. Builder · since 2005

    Founder

    In fall 2005 he was the first employee at a start-up called Maverik Lacrosse, and he ran its West Coast operations. In 2009 he founded the LA Mavs, which grew from a single boys youth team into one of the biggest club programs in Southern California: more than 300 players and 20-plus coaches.

    He also founded Sean Lindsay Lacrosse Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that runs Coalition Lacrosse Club. Then came Banner Years and the Hudson Valley Lax history series.

Graphics we make

Every All-American gets a card.

These are real samples from our Hudson Valley Lax series. We find the honorees in the old clippings, draw each one in his school's jersey and set the newspaper headshot that ran with the story right on the card. Two-time honorees get both certificates.

Illustrated 1981 All-American card for Pat Dugan of North Rockland in a red jersey, with his newspaper headshot
Pat DuganNorth Rockland · 1981 All-American
Illustrated All-American card for Tim Nelson of Yorktown in a green jersey, with his newspaper headshot and two All-American certificates for 1980 and 1981
Tim NelsonYorktown · 2× All-American, 1980 & 1981
Illustrated 1981 All-American card for Joe Savarese of Suffern in a blue jersey, with his newspaper headshot
Joe SavareseSuffern · 1981 All-American
Illustrated 1980 All-American card for Angelo Campana of Gorton in a white and green jersey, with his newspaper headshot
Angelo CampanaGorton · 1980 All-American
The 1984 All-Americans recap page: five framed jersey cards for Jim Gilman, Mike Hoynes and Wendell Robbins of Yorktown and John Cunniffe and Craig Mygatt of John Jay
The 1984 All-AmericansRecap page · five honorees, one graphic
Illustrated 1979 All-American card for Peter Seroka of Mamaroneck in an orange jersey, with his newspaper headshot
Peter SerokaMamaroneck · 1979 All-American
Send your clippingsSee more in the showcase

Why Banner Years

Because the old sports pages deserve better.

Sean grew up on hometown headlines: the agate type, the box scores and the names of kids who were legends in their town for one great spring. Most of those stories now sit in newspaper archives that nobody opens.

He has never been about the trophies. When he started the Mavs, the goal was simple: get kids to fall in love with the game the way he did. Banner Years comes from the same place. He knows what a big night feels like from the inside, so he built a company to dig those nights back out and give them the full treatment: recap carousels, player cards, posters, opening crawls and framed prints.

It started at home, with the Hudson Valley Lax series, rebuilding the valley's lacrosse seasons one year at a time from the clippings and the people who were there.

Every town has a team it still talks about. We make sure the story gets told right.

Send your clippings See the showcase
Sean Lindsay today as Oaks Christian head lacrosse coach, sitting on a sideline bench in a black team quarter-zip, cap and sunglasses
Now Head coach, Oaks Christian

Banner Years is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Syracuse University, Major League Lacrosse, USA Lacrosse, the LXM Pro Tour or any school or club named on this page.