US Youth Soccer Honors Eight Regional Competitive COYs.
Eight outstanding youth soccer coaches, who have received their respective regional Competitive Coach of the Year awards, will be honored this year at the US Youth Soccer Awards Gala in Indianapolis, IN.
From these coaches, the National Competitive Coach of the Year for boys and girls will be selected at the dinner on Friday, January 18.
The Region I COY winners are William Rimmer from Wilmington, Del., for boys and Larry Best (Vienna, VA) for girls. Rimmer teaches his players at Delaware Saengerbund. In 2012 his DSB Kickers won their third US Youth Soccer Delaware Boys State Championship.
Best stresses development and his Braddock Roads YC 95 Elite girls won the US Youth Soccer Virginia State Cup, the Region I Championship and the U-16 National Championship.
In Region II the boys COY is Mike Dean from Omaha, Neb., and the girls regional COY is Patrick Ferguson from New Bremen, Ohio.
Dean is known for stressing both the physical and mental aspects of the game and four of his players at the Omaha Football Club have commitetd to NCAA Division I college programs. Three players were selected to the Region II ODP squad.
Ferguson, who coaches for Ohio Galaxies FC, has had teams reach multiple US Youth Soccer Ohio South State Cup finals and semifinals. He is also the current coach at Wright State University where he was named 2009 Horizon League Coach of the Year.
The two Region III COY winners played collegiate soccer in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Pearse Tormey from Greer, SC, is the Region III Boys Coach of the Year. The R-III Girls COY is former U.S. WNT forward Cindy Parlow Cone, who was recently named the head coach of the NWSL Portland Thorns.
Tormey represented Ireland at all levels of youth play before attending Clemson University where he finished with more than 40 career goals and 40 assists. A member of the S.C. ODP staff, he holds a USSF “A” and National Youth licenses. He is the co-executive director of the Carolina Elite Soccer Association.
Parlow Cone, an All-America at UNC Chapel Hill, has been the DOC at Triangle United SA, a volunteer assistant at UNC and a member of the USSF U-14 and U-15 Girls National Team coaching staffs. As a player she retired as the fifth all-time scorer for the U.S. WNT with 75 goals.
The Region IV Boys COY is Michael Krug from Port Orchard, Wash., and the Girls COY is Cole Borgeson from Albuquerque, NM.
Krug has coached at WestSound FC since 2000 and has won multiple COY awards. Since he joined the club his teams have enjoyed success as finalists and champions in nearly a dozen competitions.
Borgeson began coaching after graduating college in 2006. He currently coaches for the Rio Soccer Club and the New Mexico ODP Boys 1995 and 1996 age teams.