Brescia University Women’s Soccer – Coach Shaun Soderling

On today’s episode, I speak with Coach Shaun Soderling from the Brescia University Women’s Program in Kentucky. We talk about how he recruits high character, high quality players. He describes the school’s camaraderie between all the athletic programs. Lastly, we discuss how they have a great staff supporting all the players throughout the season. Learn more about Brescia University Women’s Soccer.

Matt: [00:00:00] Hi, everybody. Welcome to discover college soccer today. I’m lucky enough to be joined by coach Shaun from Brescia university there in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Coach: Welcome coach. How’s it going? How’s it going? 

Matt: Thanks for having me on. No, thanks for being here. Uh, you know, we chatting just here before I I’ve coached against breia many, many moons ago and, and my former school now in your conference, you get to see ’em all the time, but, uh, But it’s good to have you on you’re, uh, entering your third season.

Is that right with the women’s program? Correct? Yep. Awesome. Awesome. Well, let’s, let’s talk a little bit about recruiting there for, you know, an NAIA school in Owensboro. You know, what, when are you really starting to talk to players and kind of start building out that recruiting class 

Coach: to me, you know, it it’s.

Anybody who knows me, knows I’m a super outgoing person. I’ll, I’ll talk to anybody. I, I love communication. Um, and I know like everybody says, like within AI, it’s the wild, wild west. There’s no recruiting rules and things like that. And it’s not that we use that to our advantage. I think what the big thing that we try to do is [00:01:00] that early stage, once we’ve identified a player, even if they are a freshman, if We’ve identifying, Hey, this is a point that we wanna keep our eye on.

All we’re doing is building a relationships. Uh, just getting to know the player and spending that time over the next couple years, uh, you know, knowing who they are, letting them know who we are. Um, and then once that, that junior hits or you. That’s when we’re kind of, oh, Hey, now, like maybe you should think about brushing.

This is, this would be a good place. So to me it’s all about developing those relationships with players. Um, you know, for us typically a school like ours it’s year by year. Um, I unfortunately am still in the NCAA calendar in my mind, uh, trying to work ahead. Um, and so, you know, for us it’s, if there’s a player that’s good.

Uh, you know, no matter the class, uh, you know, there’s somebody that we’re gonna reach out to, and if they decide that brush is where they want to go, uh, then that’s, uh, you know, that’s just, that’s fine by us. Great. 

Matt: Well, You know, when you’re out recruiting or seeing players, you know, are there some must [00:02:00] see stops, uh, on the tournament circuit that you’re, you’re trying to get to are the kind of the best places for you to see players.

And, and then are you also taken in high school games? Does that fit into your recruiting at all? 

Coach: So I, I try to get into high high school games as much as possible. Uh, and sometimes it can be difficult, especially in the fall. Uh, so I, I, even though my school’s in Kentucky, I live across the bridge in Evansville.

Uh, and Evansville is a hotbed for, especially on the women’s side, uh, for a lot of girls, high school soccer teams, uh, very successful ones around here. Um, so I try to get to those when I can. I definitely, uh, built relationships with those, uh, coaches. Some of the coaches actually used to coach a long, long time ago.

Um, see, it’s always good to have that have that connection, but I think for us the big. Um, we’re very, very big on the exact sports circuit. Uh, anytime that they’ve got something going on, typically you’ll see, uh, you’ll see me there. Uh, but as far as like, showcases go, uh, anything that’s local, obviously something we’re gonna go to.

So we have like a couple here in Evansville, but, um, you have up in Indianapolis, you have [00:03:00] crossroads, which I think is one of the best ones, uh, in the country. We’re always gonna be there. Uh, there’s another there’s circle city, obviously. We’re also. You know, just three hours from Cincinnati. So I can go to gateway.

I can go to blue chip King’s hammer those, uh, three hours from St. Louis, less than two hours from Nashville, uh, hour and a half from Louisville. So, you know, there’s a lot of ’em that we can go to that are local. Uh, that’s not gonna cost us a lot in our budget, you know, we’re gonna be able to go and, and, uh, uh, see some great showcases.

Uh, but at the same time, uh, you know, we do get out to down in Raleigh at the showcase down. Uh, it’s one of my favorite ones to go to. Uh, and then obviously we hit up, uh, anything that’s remotely nearest ECNL wise or GA wise. I know that we just had a EC event, uh, last, um, last fall in Murphysboro, Tennessee.

So it wasn’t much for us to, to get down there, to, to go there, but you know, we’re actually opening up a little bit more. I think you’re gonna. Um, a lot more, uh, on the west coast, uh, this upcoming spring, uh, we’ve kind of been [00:04:00] working with our, our university and our admissions department, um, about, you know, getting the brush a name out there, getting the sisterhood out for everybody.

Uh, so, uh, you know, people always make fun of me for where I go at all the time and how, how often I’m gone. We’re just gonna add more to that. , uh, and, and get, and get our team out there where we can see the best talent in the country. 

Matt: No, that’s, that’s great. In terms of, of camps. Do you like to, uh, I mean, do you guys host your own?

Do you and your staff work, other people’s camps? How does that kind of fit into everything? 

Coach: It’s both, uh, camps at our school is something that’s still kind of relatively new. We just, uh, we’ve had, since I’ve been there just in the last year, cuz the, the other thing that’s like, yeah, this is my third year.

Uh, but also the week I started is when the pandemic started uh, so it’s like, it took us a long time to be able to kind of get back to normalcy, but we just ran our first camp last year. Uh, or I guess last school year, uh, in the, in the springtime had a great turnout. We had over 20 kids sign up. Um, we had another one, uh, this, uh, [00:05:00] this past summer, uh, with 20 kids signed up again.

Uh, you know, you gotta start somewhere. I think that’s one of our best things is, um, we do a really good job. Putting our camp in, uh, tied in with our admissions department. So there’s a lot of, lot of groundwork between two different groups there, uh, for one common cause. Uh, but, uh, you know, we, we will do other camps.

Uh, we’ll go to other schools as well. Uh, a good friend of mine, Don Crow at, uh, Wisconsin Stevens point. Uh, I, I frequent up to hers, uh, every so often and obviously with the exact sports, uh, in the winter. Or when they do their one day camps, mainly we’ll do local stuff. Uh, Detroit indie, Nashville, Atlanta St.

Louis, Cincinnati. Um, but then when the summertime comes, we’ll be on all of ’em. We’ll go to California. We’ll go to Virginia, Connecticut, Chicago, Texas, uh, Atlanta, uh, you know, anywhere that that wants us to be there, uh, for, for our staff or myself, uh, to help out then we’re, we’re more than glad to. Okay.

Matt: Well, whether you’re at one of those camps or, or any of those tournaments, kind of, what is your. [00:06:00] Hierarchy of things that you’re looking for in a player, whether that’s on the field stuff or off 

Coach: the field stuff. I think the off the field’s number one, uh, you know, I, I say all the time and in my introduction, email to recruits, what we’re looking for is high character and in high quality, um, you know, I, I think if you have a high character, the quality’s gonna be there or the quality’s gonna be developed, uh, you know, we’re also looking for people who are not at, not at their peak as well in terms of their development, uh, you know, people that we can continue to help grow.

Uh, in their four years, uh, then, you know, I think every coach has their own kind of little checklist, um, of what they look for in a specific role. And for us, um, you know, when we took over the program, uh, as a staff, we really went through, so, okay. How can we simplify? Um, you know, from all the places that we had all come from, whether it was from some of our staff, that’s coming from high school, coaching, myself and others that are coming from college coaching.

Okay. What, what is, what do we envision as the perfect number eight or the perfect number nine? Okay. Now, can we get that down to like four things that if we can see them do three [00:07:00] of those four, uh, you know, this is a, this is a player that we wanna get on our list. Um, you know, it is just going through that checklist.

Uh, and I, I’ve always said like, you know, if you can hit two out of the four, uh, and we can look at the other two say, yeah, you know, we, we can, we can develop that and make that happen. Uh, you know, for us that’s a, that just makes the process a little bit easier. That way we’re not sitting there waiting the entire time of, okay.

They gotta go through all these, uh, all these tasks that we’ve gotta see. ’em do we, we try to keep it simple, uh, and then allow our minds to really kind of three think more of, okay. Hey, I think in this situation, this player would be able to do this. Yeah. We, we can teach him to do. Okay. 

Matt: Well, I always have to ask the, uh, the dollars and cents question.

Um, so, you know, I’m not holding you to hard numbers cuz I know those are always changing, but yeah. Can you just gimme an overall, uh, kind of big picture view of what, what is a. Student athlete coming into Bresha whether it’s academic money, athletic money mm-hmm any other financial, what just, what does the, the average kind of picture look like [00:08:00] for somebody coming into school there?

Coach: So Brescia just recently changed their scholarship packages on the academic side and it’s, it’s pretty incredible. So like our tuition is $27,000. If you have a three nine. Um, and they they’ve got it teared off because of test scores. Yeah. Um, so if you have a three nine, depending on your test score, you can get anywhere from 18 to $25,000 academically.

So if you get, uh, one of the top, if you get the tier four of that, Um, you know, and high test scores, high GPA, your tuition’s dropping down to $2,000. Um, and then on top of that, we do stack as well. We have blue chip money, uh, that our, our teams use, um, that the school, that amount changes, uh, what the teams can use that does change every year.

Um, so it’s really kind of a, we go through and, and I, what I try to do personally, and I, I tell to all of our recruits is I try to cover between athletic and academic as much of that tuition as possible. Um, and with the understanding [00:09:00] of, you know, what we don’t use. Um, in your, your packages going to get someone else to try to get them close to getting that, that tuition taken care of.

Um, and you know, to me, it’s, it’s kind of a smart strategy that we’ve used since we’ve got there. I know, um, you know, just kind of looking at, at how others in that department, uh, had done scholarships, previous staffs and things like that. We wanted to get a little bit more aggressive. Um, so women’s soccer wise at least.

Uh, and, and be able to kind of get ourselves matched up. Okay. Like how can we, uh, you know, bring in the, the best players that, that we can. Um, and I think it just, it helped us out with the, the type of kid that we were recruiting. Uh, obviously academics is a massive plus, but through that, that gives us the ability to where if that there’s a player who’s academics, aren’t that great, uh, that we can give them a little bit more athletically, uh, from that blue chip fund.

Uh, to try to get them kind of as, even as possible, uh, with, with those players who are getting a majority of their, their tuition taken care of. [00:10:00] Okay. 

Matt: Well, let’s, let’s talk a little bit more about the school itself. You know, there’s probably a lot of people who maybe haven’t heard of BHA, uh, being, being there in Owensboro, but, uh, you know, I know you’re kind local to that Southern Indiana, Northern Kentucky area there, but.

What? So gimme some inside scoop, what are some of the awesome things about pressure that, you know, maybe I’m not gonna find just by clicking around a website? 

Coach: You know, I, first and foremost, one things I’ve always said, and this, this is kind of like the, the previous school I was at too. Imagine we all, we all hear about Olympic village, you know, it’s during the Olympics and it’s where all the athletes live.

They all hang out together. Um, B’s campus is, is basically like Olympic village. It’s it’s all athletes. Um, and you know, majority of our are non-student athletes. Um, Do commute or take online classes. Uh, so it’s really cool that you, as an athlete can come to BHA and you know, you get out of class and maybe you’re stressing out about a test.

You have coming up studying for it, [00:11:00] but your team has to travel. Um, you know, whoever you make eye contact with your, when you, while you’re walking. They’re they know what you feel like they, they they’re in that same boat, uh, as compared to, you know, like when I went to school, uh, it wasn’t like that, you know, if I had any type of, uh, I hate saying even I hate even saying complaint, but if there was something, I was just like, oh man, like I was stressing about my non-athletic friends were not non-athletic, but my friends who weren’t student athletes were like, oh, you’ve got it so easy.

Don’t worry. And it’s like, no, like we don’t have it easy. Uh, so I think it’s a really cool environment for, um, a player who. Um, whether it’s soccer or any sport, you know, to be surrounded by people who are going through the same things you’re going through. Um, so there’s, you know, our athletic community on campus is, is very, very close.

And, um, I really got to see it. Um, Up close last year and, and, you know, and sometimes unfortunate events kind of allows you to see the, the broader [00:12:00] picture. Um, we had a baseball player pass away last year in a, in a car accident. And like I knew everybody got along, um, for all the, the, all the sports on campus, but that was really my eye opener of how close.

All the sports are, um, all the athletes, the, you know, you you’ll see, you know, you’ll see women soccer players, but you’ll also see some of them talking to track players. You’ll also see some of them talking to basketball players or to golfers, whatever it may be. Um, so I think, you know, to me, the, one of the things I really, you know, in that recruiting pitch to someone is really selling that athletic community, uh, in the bond that they have.

Uh, we have a very small campus the way our, our players say it. Do you wanna walk 30 minutes in the rain or do you wanna walk two minutes in the rain? Um, you know, to, to get from one building to the next? Uh, and the cool part, I, I think too is we’re located in historic downtown Owen Owensboro, right along the riverfront.

We’re about two and a half, three blocks away from a newly renovated downtown area. Uh, right along the riverfront. I always tell people [00:13:00] Google image, uh, Owensboro, riverfront. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Uh, I think right when my family. Moved back here a few years back. I think they had just wrapped up, um, remodeling all of it and spent way more money than I’ll ever know about my life, uh, on their riverfront.

And you know, where during the beginning of fall and, and the, the late spring, every Friday, there’s a concert down there. It’s a big festival, uh, that the whole town comes out for. It’s really, you know, Just such a really cool place to be at. Um, knowing that, you know, Hey, I, I can be here on campus. I can live this campus life, but I can also, you know, Take a two and a half block walk and be in the downtown area and have the whole riverfront myself where I can go for a job and get some fitness in.

I, we have players that do picnics down there. We have, um, student organizations that do meetings down there just to kinda get away from campus sometimes. Uh, so it’s really just a, an amazing environment. Uh, overall to be around with professors that, you know, you’re not just number, they know [00:14:00] exactly who you are, and you’re gonna be able to know who they are too.

The relationships that our, our professors have with our, our student athletes is, has been topnotch. Um, you know, to where, you know, some schools, your professors could care less about, uh, your statistics from the night before, or, uh, or that you have a game coming up and, and to see all of our professors have a vested interest in our students.

Not just in the classroom, but also coming out to watch ’em play, bringing their families to come watch these kids play, but then also the next day in class. Oh, Hey, saw your goal last night. Like that was super kid cool. My kids were going awesome about it. Uh, you know, that’s just something that, uh, you know, a lot of schools, uh, try to do and some schools can do it, some schools can’t.

Uh, but I also think too educationally. Um, having that smaller classroom, uh, you know, I went to a college of only 5,500 people. I went to a, a high school with only a barely a thousand. So I’m used to small classrooms, uh, and it was something that I really like about brushes that one on one that [00:15:00] you really do have with that professor to where, you know, we’ve got kids who are doing pre-med biology that are as sophomores already speaking in terms.

And, and thinking of things that I know either seniors or grad students are doing, and it’s because of that one on one time that they’re getting, um, to really develop themselves in that career for post soccer. Uh, and that’s the thing I love about BHA is, you know, the, the resources that we give them for soccer to develop is athletes.

The school goes above and beyond to double that resource for you and your academic, because we wanna make sure that just like any coach would. You know, if you are a high school coach sending a kid off to college or a college coach sending someone off to, to the pros, you wanna make sure that when that kid gets there, they know what they’re doing.

And a coach is gonna see them play and go, yeah, they can come in right away and be able to go. We want the same thing for our kids, uh, when they go into the work field as well, that when they get that job that employer’s like, this kid knows what they’re doing. We can throw them in right away. No, that’s that’s awesome.[00:16:00] 

Matt: Well, in terms of, you know, during the season, I mean, you’re in the thick of it right now, but can you just walk me through, I know there’s no such thing as an average week, but walk me through, uh, what a typical week might look like, just in terms of win’s practice, win’s class meals, travel for games, what, you know, kind of, what does a a week look like in a quick snapshot for sure.

Coach: Um, we’ll just go, we’ll go off of this week then. Cause we, we only have one game. This. Um, so, uh, on a typical Monday, not this past Monday, cuz it was labor day, typical Monday, uh, would be, uh, would be, uh, higher intensity training. Uh, then we drop it a little bit, um, on, on, uh, on Tuesday or on Wednesday, I’m sorry.

Monday, Tuesday, higher, higher level training. Uh, Wednesday we bring it down a little bit, uh, towards the end as well on, on Tuesday. Um, then we have our tr we have our game on Thursday. We’ll have a recovery session on Friday. Uh, I typically, as long as we don’t play on Saturday, I will give the kids off the Saturday and Sunday.

Um, I always give ’em Sundays off, no matter. Um, but [00:17:00] just depending on what we’ve got, uh, coming up. So like next week is when our, every Thursday, Saturday schedule starts. So this was a week that, um, you know, ahead of time in our scheduling, knowing, okay, Hey, this is a weekend that soon as we’re, we’re done on Thursday, we’ll have a, a Friday morning session.

Once class is over with go be with your family. You got some time. Um, we train at 6:00 AM. That was a move that we just made this year. That has actually been. Surprisingly really, really good for us. Uh, I know when we first thought about it, the players and myself, cuz I live 45 minutes away. Um, I was dreading that 4:00 AM wake up, but uh, you know, we all were kind of dreading, but it’s been really awesome to not have to fight classes to where we know everybody’s gonna be there.

We don’t have to worry about, oh, Hey, I got a lab that got moved or you know, I’ve got this test that’s running over and I think it’s a good way to start your day. Uh, and, and our players have really talked about that too. Their minds are a lot more open, uh, going to class, uh, they’re much more awake and alive, uh, just because they did get that, that workout in, in the morning.

So for [00:18:00] us, it’s a, it’s a train session, six to, to seven 30. Uh, then typically afterwards you can catch all of us at the cafeteria getting breakfast together. Um, and then most of the time classes start around 8:00 AM. Um, most classes in between three and four, there are the occasional later classes, just depending on what your major may be.

Uh, but most of our kids are done. Uh, their days are done between that three and four range. Um, and then on Fridays, uh, everybody’s done at noon. I think there’s one or two classes that meet after 12, but everybody’s done at noon on Fridays. Um, and I think that’s a really cool. Way for the weekend, especially, uh, you know, if there’s a chance for, you know, when our season’s over with, if a kid, like we said, you know, if a kid wants to, to go back home and hang out with a family for a little bit, they’ve got the ability to do that.

Not get home super, super late, cuz uh, you know, their last class is at noon on, on Friday. So, uh, for us it’s just, just the train sessions in the morning. We want you to be a student during the day. Uh, and on top of that, uh, because we don’t train in the evenings, you can be involved in a student organization on campus, which I think is huge, [00:19:00] uh, for, for student athletes, if they have the ability to do that, uh, myself, I, I love the fact that not only could I be a soccer player, but I was also student government president or student Senate, I believe it was called when I was at school.

Um, you know, have being able to have that on my resume. Uh, so for us it’s we want our kids active and involved in as many, uh, of those organizations as possible, uh, because we’re gonna give them time to do. okay. Awesome. Well, let’s shift gears 

Matt: a little bit. Talk about the, the soccer side of things. Do, 

Coach: uh, 

Matt: we’ll talk about the roster right now, but do you have a, an ideal roster size that you’re trying to hit every year?

Coach: Yeah, so right now, the, the school. Obviously be in a smaller school, we have numbers, uh, you know, and, and the school would like for 24, even from the time I got there, I’ve always said 28 is really kind of what I want to get to. And the reason why I wanna do that is my very first day ever in college was at division one university of Evansville with Mike Jacobs.

Who’s now at Nashville SC the very first day he, he told me, he said, There’s always gonna be six people gone or [00:20:00] hurt whether they’re hurt or they’re in class. There’s always gonna be six. Just always keep that number in your mind. And if that’s the case and you wanna play 11 V 11, you gotta have 22. He’s like so 22 plus plus six is, is 28.

So I’ve always said the 28, uh, is the number I wanna get to, I, I don’t wanna go over. I don’t wanna go over 30 whatsoever. Um, but you know, we wanna get to a point with our, our team. We wanna play 20, 25 kids a game. Uh, and, and I think that we’re. In the time that I’ve been there, we’re starting to get to that.

I, I know this year, there’s been numerous times where we’ve played, uh, where we’ve played 20 so far this year in a game. Uh, we wanna continue to, to build that number up, um, and, and, you know, get, um, you know, our, our depth is, is a little bit better this year. I think we’re gonna get deeper even more. So next year, uh, we’re, we’re upgrading all over the field, whether it’s a game changer, whether it’s a starter, uh, you know, it’s been a constant progress.

And I, I think we’re definitely gonna see the, uh, The, the rewards from, from the work we’ve put in recruiting wise over these next couple of years. Okay. Well, [00:21:00] 

Matt: I know we talked a little about this before, cuz uh, I know from my days out that way or one of your staff, but, but can you talk about your soccer staff and then the support staff, maybe from the athletic department?

What role does everybody play? Who who’s there helping you out? 

Coach: Yeah, so on our staff, uh, we got, uh, Holly Kato who’s who’s in charge of our goalkeeper. Um, Holly was one of the first people I called. I, I knew when I got the job, I, the first guys, like we had to get a goalkeeper coach. Um, and, and I can remember when I met the players too, uh, during my interview, uh, the goalkeepers were very vocal, like get a goalkeeper coach uh, so that was kind of a priority for me.

And, and Holly’s been around this area for a while. She does a really good job. Um, and, and we’re, we’re so thankful to have her, her with us, uh, and, and, and the players really have taken a. Taken into, or, uh, you know, she, she always makes a mistake of ton of people. She’s not a huggable person, but when you tell that to a group that’s so loving, , they’re gonna hug you.

So, you know, we, we kind of bring that side out of her a little bit. Um, obviously Scott Wilson, that’s on our staff. Scott’s, uh, you know, not just a friend of mine, but a mentor as well. Uh, he [00:22:00] knows the area very well. He’s got college experience. Uh, and then Scott’s a game changer for us. You know, when he first started getting involved with us, we noticed, um, a drastic difference in our team.

Uh, and, and I’m a person that. Uh, you know, I’m never gonna sit here and claim to know everything. And then I joke with people all the time. I’m much better recruiter than I am a coach. Uh, you know, but when you can surround yourself with people who know the things that you may not know, uh, it’s only gonna make the whole thing work together a lot more.

Uh, so there’s, you know, I’m not gonna say Scott’s age, but his wisdom and his experience, um, you know, definitely helps out, uh, for us, uh, a lot more than what he thinks. And we just added, um, Erin McGuire, who just graduated actually from Bisha. Um, Erin’s got a really cool story that, yeah, she was a player for us, but she was also working on her.

UAFA B at the exact same time. Oh, wow. Erin was winning to get coaching into the college game when she graduated. Um, you know, I tried to get her connected with, uh, as many coaches, as I knew that I could get her connected with, uh, she had a couple club opportunities, uh, to direct some [00:23:00] ECNL teams and whatnot, and, and just ultimately felt like college was where she wanted to be at.

She wanted to, to work coach outta college and, uh, BHA just happened to have an admissions job that, uh, Aaron’s very well known, uh, on campus. Uh, everybody. From every staff, uh, loves Erin. And, you know, I think when they made the opportunity for her to, to come back and work at admissions, she reached out to me and was like, Hey, do you think it’d be okay if I could coach with you?

And I was like, absolutely. You know, I, I would never say no to that. So, um, you know, so our, our staff, I think, uh, you know, while, while we’re, uh, still kind of young to each other, I, I think we’re continuing to grow a as is our team, um, you know, support staff wise. You know, our athletic director, Sarah Gaylor, uh, who I always have thrown there.

The only female men’s basketball coach, uh, right now she’s, she’s so awesome. Her and, um, our athletic supervisor, Chris, how who’s also our VP of enrollment. Um, those two, I mean, you wanna talk about having. I even hate calling them bosses, but I mean, they are my boss. Um, you know, the support that they [00:24:00] give me, uh, in our program, you know, Chris, when he came on with us, uh, as a, as a soccer coach, himself coaches, uh, club in, in our town, um, you know, and just the confidence that they, they give me of, Hey, you know, you know, you, you know what you’re doing.

Keep doing it, keep bringing, uh, kids in here and let’s get this thing rolling. So, you know, just that constant, um, motivation and support from them. You know, Chris attends our games or he watches ’em online. And, and for him, he’s been at Bresha for over 14 years now. So he has truly seen the progression that we’ve made in this program.

Uh, just in the last three years to where, you know, yeah, we lost the other night and we came off the field and, you know, as a coach, you just kind of dejected and, and Chris comes up and he’s like, You guys completed 65 passes in one half, like that’s never happened here. He’s like, you know, just continuing on to support.

So, um, you know, I think that’s something that our players are recognizing too, is that support is, is coming around and, and things are definitely good at, at Bresh university. And I’m really excited about, uh, about the future of the, of the school and not just the school, but the [00:25:00] athletic department as well.

Um, and I think anybody who who’s on the inside could tell you that there’s a lot of excitement coming, uh, and, and it’s super awesome to be a part. That’s great. Well, 

Matt: coach, we’ve covered a lot of ground, talked about a lot of things, but I always end these the same way. And that’s what didn’t we talk about?

What else did, do you wanna mention, reiterate anything else, whether it’s recruiting the school, the team or anything else in general? Uh, you know, give you one last one last shout out. 

Coach: Oh, let’s see here. I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shot to my family, my wife, uh, Casey, and, and my two kids Quinn. And. Um, I also have to, to shout out, uh, my boy, Nick Rizzo, he and I have a podcast.

That’s always on delay, uh, whenever, uh, we’re in season. Uh, but it’s called soccer chat. We have a Wednesday night, um, Twitter, Q and a one. Anybody can follow, just go to the hashtag soccer chat. Um, man, uh, gosh, I I’ve drawn up like normally, like I’ve not lost for words, but, uh, I would also say too, like, you know, our program, anybody can follow us online.

It’s [00:26:00] BHA w S SOC Bresha w so, um, you know, we’re always willing to talk to, to players, to coaches. Um, and the thing for me as, as a coach, you know, if somebody’s listening to this, I’m easy to reach out to. I I’d love to connect with as many people as possible. Cause I truly believe that networking is the big thing.

Uh, and I, and the soccer world. It’s so cool. How it’s so big, but yet it’s so small. How many connections you can have? With someone that you may have just met, like, you know, getting on here, talking with you and you’re like, oh, I know Scott. I’m like, I know Scott too. um, it’s so crazy how the, how that soccer coaching award is so big, but yet it’s still so small.

Uh, so I love networking. I’m at coach soling on all platforms. I’m probably the worst talk, uh, follow ever. Um, and I, I do have to give a, a disclaimer, if you do follow me on social media. I’m probably the worst soccer coach on, on social media, cuz I don’t just only talk about soccer and that’s not a knock on people who, soccer coaches who do not a knock on you whatsoever.

I’m just a person of, I know like with recruiting, if I’m interested in a team, I’m gonna go find the players and see what [00:27:00] they’re about. If I can find the coach, I’m gonna go see what they’re about. So I really use social media as a, as a way to show who I really am. And I am more than just a soccer coach.

I am a husband and a father, um, and, and a fan of so many. Uh, sports and, and things in life, uh, and massive golfers. So, uh, apologies ahead of time. If I don’t do enough soccer stuff for everybody on, on social media. Uh, but, uh, you know, it’s just an exciting time to be a part of the sisterhood. And we love, uh, all of our support that we have from, from not just in the country, but all over the world.

And, um, you know, thank you again so much for, for having on here with you, enjoy what you guys are doing, uh, and just, uh, thankful to, to pop on and be a part of it too. Well, thank 

Matt: you and appreciate your time and wish you the best of luck the rest of this season. And, uh, hopefully, well, I, I, it’s gonna be hard when you play Oakland city.

I don’t know who, who I’ll root for in that one, but may, maybe, maybe we’ll just, we’ll root for a draw. 

Coach: But anyway, I, so, so I really like, Katie’s a good friend of mine. That’s their, their coach now. Uh, last year we did defeat them. It was our first conference [00:28:00] win in, in school history. Um, you know, I like, I, I, I like Katie.

I like Oakland city as well. Um, You can stay on, on the podcast that you want to go for a draw, but you know, we’ll talk afterwards and I, I think we’ll get you on the brusher side. That 

Matt: works. That works. All right. well, thanks, coach. Appreciate it. And, uh, we’ll talk soon. No problem, man. Thank you. Take care.