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Meet The Coaches Featured In The Program
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Mike Hefron has been a successful soccer coach for over 15 seasons and has coached boys and girls from the ages of 3 to 16. Coach Mike has produced winning teams over the past several years and has developed many teams to compete in North Carolina's most difficult tournaments. His proven method and style of coaching sets realistic goals and expectations for his players. His "encouraging" tone brings the best out of his players and makes them realize their potential by emphasizing the essential skills needed for soccer.
Coach Mike is a licensed coach in North Carolina and has affiliations with The Charlotte Soccer Club, The North Carolina Youth Soccer Association, North Carolina YMCA Soccer, Birmingham Youth Soccer Program. Coach Mike is married with four children and is an Executive with a large Computer Manufacturing Company.
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Vance Carlisle, a provincial and national junior player in Rhodesia has coached youth soccer at all levels for almost 20 years in the USA. His teams have always produced 80-90% winning records. His teams have played in numerous high profile tournaments, where they have regularly emerged as champions or finalists. He has coached teams at state as well as regional competition.
Coach Vance’s teams have produced many NC state Olympic Development Pool players and, had eleven players on champion U18 Ladies CSC Classic team represented on the state, regional and national pool. In 2003 he was approached to take up the position of Director of Coaching (Challenge) for the Siskey YMCA. This program grew from three challenge teams to fifteen at the tryouts in 2004.
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Sean Carlisle, a product of the director's coaching has over eight years of classic soccer, the majority of which he played with the NC State Team and Regional pool for the Olympic Development Program (ODP). He attended Spartanburg Methodist College and received "All Conference", "All Region" and was nominated for "All American".
Coach Sean is currently Director of Coaching (Boys) at the Siskey Y Challenge program. Sean continues to head coach the CSC U16 Ladies (White Team) and the CSC U17 Mens (White Team). Both of these teams have had very good results under his leadership.
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Rick Gray is a strength and conditioning coach with over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry. His accomplishments include certifications in personal training (regular and advanced), lifestyle and weight management. He also holds a certification in golf fitness and conditioning.
While in college, he was a high-ranking college and semi-pro athlete in baseball. He was also the Middle and Light-heavyweight Amateur Boxer Champion in novice divisions.
Coach Rick has been designing youth fitness programs for age groups 7 to 16 for over 10 years. He has and still trains professional athletes as well.
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