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Cofounder / Coach Bob Boyle is a lifelong soccer fan, player, coach and multi-sport competitive athlete. Bob has played and coached soccer in many capacities across a wide range of school, club and international experiences since his youth playing days in Okemos, Michigan. As a college student-athlete, he played striker for the Bowling Green Falcons where he was a two-time 1st Team All Mid-America Conference selection and contributed a career total of 20 goals and 12 assists as the team achieved a #3 national ranking and a NCAA D1 tournament appearance in 1992. As a board member at America SCORES Denver from 2006 - 2013 he supported ASD staff and chaired several initiatives to help advance ASD's innovative "poetry and soccer" mission (poesía + fútbol = alegría). In 2010 Bob was selected by the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club and a panel of his coaching peers to receive Colorado Youth Soccer’s Developmental Coach of the Year award. His leadership and work experience spans a diverse range of executive management roles and community impact initiatives. Bob is actively pursuing the USSF coaching license pathway (currently holds a USSF "C" license) and United Soccer Coaches Mental Performance Training Diploma and volunteers as leadership staff, board member and player development / technical advisor for FC Denver. Bob enjoys guitar, mountain biking and random road trip adventures with his wife Emily, and kids Ethan, Keira and Reilly, and their dog Reggie.
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Technical Partner / Coach Hank Lewis currently lives in Denver, Colorado and coaches FC Denver's U23 Men's team. Coach Lewis brings over 25 years of coaching experience at the youth club, collegiate, international club and national team levels, developing players in every position who have become youth and adult club champions, high school All-Americans, collegiate conference players of the year, NCAA record holders, All-America selections, and professional players. Hank has been a core member of the technical staff of top-10 teams across all three NCAA divisions, and has been part of six conference championships, three conference tournament championships and five NCAA Tournament appearances, including Colorado School of Mines’ run to the Elite Eight of Division II in 2015, and Air Force’s trip to the Division I Sweet 16 in 2018. Internationally, as a core member of the Bahamian National Teams, Coach Lewis developed several U19 Bahamas National Team players into NCAA D1 scholarship student-athletes, league MVPs, National Team captains, and the youngest Bahamian goalkeepers to start for full national men’s and women’s sides in World Cup and Olympic games. Hank spent more than 15 years as a full-time university professor before going into full-time collegiate coaching, and is a national award-winning writer of essays, plays, non-fiction and two critically-acclaimed books of short stories. A fourth-generation Coloradan, he was raised by parents who were social justice professionals, and has lived community engagement since before he was a teenager. He has partnered as a senior trainer for Positive Coaching Alliance, which reaches millions of children each year to develop and defend a positive experience in club and scholastic sports.
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Technical Partner / Coach Matthew Okoh currently resides in Munich, Germany and is a successful international professional soccer player and coach. His professional playing career spans top clubs and leagues in the United States (MLS), Germany (Bundesliga) and Portugal (Liga NOS). After retiring as an active professional player, Matthew devoted himself with passion and dedication to coaching. His diverse, multicultural experiences enable him to create effective training programs that are always based on holistic and systematic training approaches. While coaching at the professional and collegiate levels in the US and Germany, Coach Okoh created the GO PRO program, a pathway for young players to train and develop in Germany, one of the world’s top football countries. Matthew earned his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Denver, where he ranks second on the soccer program career lists for goals and total points. Upon graduation, he was seventh on the NCAA Division II all-time list for goals per game in a season. Matthew holds UEFA A and Coach Educator Licenses. He is a successful author and is fluent in three languages. He is characterized in Nintendo and EA Sports Playstation 2 games FIFA.
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Cofounder / Coach Kellington Boddie grew up an avid sports fan and enthusiast in Peoria, Illinois and graduated from Missouri State University where he earned undergraduate degrees in Criminology and Sociology while achieving success on the soccer field as a member of the Men’s Soccer Team from 2009 - 2012. Off the soccer field, Kellington was invited to represent student-athletes on Missouri State University’s President’s Panel and Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Kellington relocated to Denver in 2013 to coach in the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club Academy and US Soccer Foundation’s Soccer for Success programs. He is actively pursuing the USSF coaching license program (currently holds a USSF "C" license) and completed an invitational coaching workshop administered by staff coaches from FC Barcelona's famed "La Masia" youth fútbol academy. He is a Cofounder of SOCCER ELECTRIC and 303FUTSAL. In his role as Technical Advisor to 303FUTSAL, “Coach Kell” is leading the charge to grow futsal and introduce kids and families to soccer and futsal in northeast Denver and the Atlanta metro area coaching in the Atlanta United Developmental Academy.
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Coach Nick McKellar grew up in Argyle, Texas, playing soccer and dreaming of becoming a professional player. From fall 2012 to spring of 2015, Nick was a student-athlete at the Richmond International Academic and Soccer Academy in Leeds, England. In England, he played semi-professional soccer for Eccleshill United and Bradford City U23’s, while working towards a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management. He was chosen to represent his class as the International Student Ambassador, where he helped non-English students transition into life on their campus. In the summer of 2015, Nick joined Marbella United FC in Marbella, Spain. His club went on a European tour, playing professional soccer clubs in Holland, Belgium, and Germany, while seeing the various training facilities and club cultures. Since his time in Europe, Nick has played in McKinney, TX with the Texas Spurs, graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with his bachelor’s in Sports Management, and is relocated to Denver with his wife in March of 2018. He is working towards his USSF grassroots coaching license and helping to grow the game in northeast Denver.
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