LUSC teams from kindergarten through high school are coached by volunteers — parents who give their evenings to it. Our pro staff sits behind them: setting the curriculum, running the training sessions, coaching the LPDA teams, and teaching the volunteers how to teach.
Licenses held on staff include the USSF A and USSF B, the NSCAA Premier and Director of Coaching diplomas, and the US Youth National Youth License. Our Director of Coaching also serves on Region 1 Olympic Development Program staff.
Staff have coached or played at Northeastern, Tufts, Bentley, Assumption, UMass Lowell, Providence, Brandeis, Hamilton, Middlebury, Vassar, Curry, Rivier, Boston University, Plymouth State, and New England Revolution.
Questions about coaching or placement? Contact the Director of Coaching, Brendan Donahue.
Where the pro staff shows up
What a paid coach delivers in each program, and what your volunteer coach does
K–2
Soccer Saturdays
A pro coach runs the skill demonstration at the start of each session, so every child sees the week’s technique taught properly. Volunteer coaches take it from there into small-sided games.
3–8
In-town league and travel club
Pro coaches lead the practices. Volunteer coaches manage the team, run the bench on game day, and carry the session content forward through the week.
LPDA
Player Development Academy
Pro coaches are the head coaches. Every LPDA age group is led by a licensed coach from the staff below.
Club
Programming and coach education
The Director of Coaching owns the curriculum across every age group, plus evaluations, team formation, and the education pathway that gets volunteer coaches licensed.
Volunteer coaches are the reason this club works at scale. If you are coaching a team this season, the education pathway and the session library are built for you.
The coach roster from the Google Sheet appears here on the website. Keep this line where the roster should go; it isn’t shown to visitors.
National organizations in the table above:
- ASL: American Soccer League
- NASL: North American Soccer League
- NSCAA: National Soccer Coaches Association of America
- MISL: Major Indoor Soccer League
- MLS: Major League Soccer
- USISL: United States Interregional Soccer League
- USL: United Soccer League
- USSF: United States Soccer Federation
- WPSL: Women’s Premium Soccer League
Coaching for LUSC
We hire licensed coaches for LPDA teams, clinics, and travel sides each season, and we help volunteer coaches earn their first license through the education pathway.
Write to coaching@lexingtonunited.org.
