College Coaching Experience
In 1978, he began coaching at the college level and successfully took Santa Ana College men’s team to the California State championship. In 1983, after coaching professional teams, he began coaching at the University of California, Irvine. The first year there he coached both the men’s and women’s team with the LA Times dubbing him as the “soccer guru”. From 1984 to 1995, he coached the men’s team in Division I competition in the Big West Conference (formerly the Pacific Coast Athletic Association). His success at UCI was recognized with many awards and accolades. He was named Big West Coach of the Year in 1991. The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation represents the Big West, Pacific-10, Mountain West, Western Athletic and West Coast Conferences and other selected universities in the western United States. In 1994, it named Lawther as Coach of the Year.
Lawther maintained his relationships with youth sports organizations. He was South District Coach in the California Youth Soccer Association from 1974–1981. In 1981, he was the California State boy’s coach that won the Nike Cup for the U19 division. He became the American Youth Soccer Association (AYSO) Area Coach Administrator. A position he still holds and enjoys. He also coached the Corona Del Mar High School boy’s team for four years in the late nineties. He is still active in coaching club teams.
Read more about this topic: Derek Lawther
Famous quotes containing the words college and/or experience:
“A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.”
—Toi Derricotte (b. 1941)