Staff Coaches

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: FC Universitatea Cluj
Player: Lionel Messi

Best Coaching Memory

The 2020 MLS season with Columbus Crew, which culminated in winning the club’s second MLS Cup.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Never stop running – always give 100% effort

Favorite Motivational Quote

“When you come under pressure, you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Manchester
United Player:

Best Coaching Memory

Two players from WPFC B87 Black team went on to be both drafted by Colorado Rapids

Player Expectations/Advice:

Favorite Motivational Quote

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Arsenal FC
Player:  Thierry Henry

Best Coaching Memory:

Player Expectations/Advice:

Players willing to be selfless for teammates

Favorite Motivational Quote:

“We need the whole squad, every player of the team, of we are to be successful.” Pep Guardiola

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Everton FC. Neville Southall

Best Coaching Memory

WPFC Girls 03 winning every competiton we entered in 2015

Player Expectations/Advice:

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Favorite Motivational Quote

I dont believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Manchester United
Player: David Beckham & Paul Scholes

Best Coaching Memory

Winning 2017 Region 4 ODP Championship, WA G02

Player Expectations/Advice:

Trust the #Process and always control your effort and focus that leads to the result

Favorite Motivational Quote

Being successful in soccer is not an obligation, its an opportunity!!!!

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Chelsea FC
Player: Becky Sauerbrunn

Best Coaching Memory

Seeing the girls celebrate after winning The Vegas Cup

Player Expectations/Advice

The only thing holding you back from becoming all you can be, is you.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Chance Favors the prepared mind.

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player

Club: Manchester United
Player: Zinedine Zidane

Best Coaching Memory

Building an elite college program

Player Expectations/Advice

Being a great soccer player isn’t easy, if it was, everybody would do it.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” John Wooden

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool
Player: Steven Gerrard

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Be the hardest working player on the pitch.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“No pressure, no diamonds”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Athletico Madrid
Player: George Weah

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Always look to make a positive impact in any way that you can.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Do the small things and the bigger picture will fall into place/”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Arsenal
Player: Xabi Alonso

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Make the most out of every session, warmup, and game

Favorite Motivational Quote

Win the moment; win the day

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Manchester United, Reign FC/Carli Lloyd

Best Coaching Memory

Promoting an RCL team after winning only a few games the previous year

Player Expectations/Advice:

Perfect the things that do not require talent. Attitude, effort, passion, and being a supportive teammate goes a long way!

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Everyday we wake up with an opportunity to be better than the day before.”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool FC

Player: Steven Gerrard is my favorite player of all time,  current player, I would have to say Mohamed Salah

Best Coaching Memory

My first experience of coaching Premier soccer in Washington with u8s. Watching one of my girls beat a player two years older than her with scissors, then hearing all of the parents go crazy. The look and smile of that child was priceless!

Player Expectations/Advice:

Be committed & hold high standards in whatever you do.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Arsenal/ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

No matter what, always play with courage and joy.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“No one believed in me so I had to believe in myself”. Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Manchester United
Player: Peter Schmeichel

Best Coaching Memory

2004 Evergreen State College Regional Championship and concluding the year ranked 8th Nationally.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Play hard, train harder. Don’t accept anyone telling you that you can’t achieve your goal. You, as a player, are in control of your path.

Favorite Motivational Quote

It’s not the will to win that matter – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. – Paul “Bear” Bryant

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Manchester United
Player: Nemanja Vidic

Best Coaching Memory

Winning the 2014 NWAC championship with Highline College in my first year as the Head Coach.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Soccer is a game of decision making. You must think quickly, but also act quickly. The ability and speed players can make good decisions and gives them the best chance of success.

Favorite Motivational Quote

If you quit now, you will end up right where you first began. When you first began, you were desperate to be where you are right now. Keep going!

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Zinedine Zidane

Best Coaching Memory

Having coached 2 undefeated seasons

Player Expectations/Advice:

Train and compete at your utmost potential every training session & match and always be the best you can be on and off the field.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool

Best Coaching Memory

Having coached 2 undefeated seasons

Player Expectations/Advice:

Favorite Motivational Quote

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Seattle Sounders
Player: Paul Scholes

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Know who you are. Adversity won’t define you, accountability will.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. Yo have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool
Player: Mohamed Salah

Best Coaching Memory

The first time I lead a training session, I knew instantly that it was what I was meant to do.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Working hard is the minimum if you want to achieve success.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Johan Cruyff: “Sometimes I had the suspicion that, youth coaches were more concerned with winning. They cared about their own reputation. I only cared about the interest of the club. When a player with talent couldn’t defend, I put him in defense so he could learn. But that could cost a point. But I didn’t care. I was busy developing the player.”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool
Player:

Best Coaching Memory

Coaching both the Gig Harbor HS Men’s and Women’s team’s and finishing 3rd in State

Player Expectations/Advice:

Practice like you’ve never won and play like you’ve never lost.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best FOR the team

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Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Manchester United, Steven Gerrard

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Be the hardest working, most confident YOU that you can be

Favorite Motivational Quote

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: West Ham United
Player: Paulo Dicanio

Best Coaching Memory

Winning National League and then going on to compete and take 3rd place in the National Championships.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Practice how you play! Practice makes permanent, so practice with the intensity and desire to keep improving, push yourself and take others with you. Effort, attitude and focus are the difference between being good and being great!

Favorite Motivational Quote

Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard!

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Chelsea
Player: Frank Lampard

Best Coaching Memory

Winning the 1999 Boys USYSA National Championship

Player Expectations/Advice:

Players need to always give their best in two areas – Effort & Focus

Favorite Motivational Quote

It’s not where you start that matters, it’s how you finish!

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool
Player(s): Steven Gerrard, Leo Messi and Zinedine Zidane

Best Coaching Memory

Each year seeing players I’ve had the pleasure of working with progress in their soccer journey and seeing where they end up.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Be brave to express yourself as a player and to make mistakes. Take responsibility of your play to improve yourself and your teammates. Don’t forget to have fun with your soccer.

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Some teams can’t or don’t pass the ball. What are you playing for? What’s the point? That’s not football. Combine, pass, play, score. I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look, and above all I open up the pitch. That’s football. The one who has the ball is the master of the game”. – Xavi

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Liverpool FC

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Work hard, love the game and challenge yourself to be the best you can be

Favorite Motivational Quote

Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Everton Luka Modric

Best Coaching Memory

Beating Crossfire in penalties in the semis before winning the state title.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Favorite Motivational Quote

You can look for difficulties in your opportunites OR look for opportunities in your difficulties.

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool
Player: Steven Gerrard

Best Coaching Memory

Winning State Championship and my son being born on same weekend

Player Expectations/Advice:

Favorite Motivational Quote