Staff Coaches

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Manchester United
Player: Zidane

Best Coaching Memory

Winning the USASA Men’s U23 National Championship

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

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Bayern Munich
Player: Manuel Neuer

Best Coaching Memory

Watching one of the first young keepers that I trained, get a scholarship to play college soccer.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Always work hard, in games, at practice and on your own time. Hard work will pay off.

Favorite Motivational Quote

You think practice is boring? Not as boring as the bench.

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Seattle Sounders
Player: Garret Bale

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:

Arsenal

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:

Players: Andres Iniesta & Shannon Box

Best Coaching Memory

Beating Walla Walla to make the NWAC final four 2017.

Player Expectations/Advice

Don’t let yourself fail, push yourself till failure, that’s when you know you are learning at your full potential.

Favorite Motivational Quote

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club:  Chelsea

Best Coaching Memory

Player Expectations/Advice:

Favorite Motivational Quote

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: Manchester United
Player: David de Gea

Best Coaching Memory

Seeing players commit to the college of their choice

Player Expectations/Advice:

Anything you dream can be accomplished through hard work and determination

Favorite Motivational Quote

“The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important”

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: 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:

Real Madrid/CR7

Best Coaching Memory

Winning the Fair Play Award in the 2014 USYSA National Championship series as the team that showed the most character, attitude toward refs, less yellow & red cards and good sportsmanship

Player Expectations/Advice:

Train intellegent, play intellegent

Favorite Motivational Quote

To be prepared to WIN you must be ready to battle

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: Chelsea
Player: Eden Hazard

Best Coaching Memory

Watching teams and players elevate their levels of play beyond what they could imagine

Player Expectations/Advice:

Come with the right right attitude , willingness to learn and compete

Favorite Motivational Quote

“Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is .” Johan Cruyff

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 Soccer Team/Club Player:

Die Mannschaft

Best Coaching Memory

Coaching players at my previous club that have gone on to successful careers at WPFC. Working with younger ages and ECNL players

Player Expectations/Advice:

Build yourself up and lift each other up. Be the best team mate you can be

Favorite Motivational Quote

Under pressure, you won’t rise to the occasion. You will go back to what you know, your training. So train hard

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Liverpool

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Club: Seattle Sounders
Player: Paul Scholes

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: Real Madrid
Player: Man United

Best Coaching Memory

Coaching at the HS and the CC level. ECNL players over the years – developement and growth of some fine individuals.

Player Expectations/Advice:

Learn something new everyday!

Favorite Motivational Quote

“You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Manchester United, Steven Gerrard

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: George Best(all time) Andy Carroll (current)

Best Coaching Memory

Taking a team from D4 to D1 in 18 months.

Player Expectations/Advice:

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

Favorite Motivational Quote

Soccer is not just a game, it is a religion, an addiction……it is a way of life

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: Manchester City
Player: Kevin De Bruyne

Best Coaching Memory

Winning the 2001 NWAAC Championship with Bellevue College

Player Expectations/Advice:

Every outing players must give the best they have – best effort and best focus. Having a great attitude makes that easy!

Favorite Motivational Quote

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…in the right direction.”

Favorite Soccer Team/Club Player:

Liverpool FC

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.

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 son being born on same weekend