Teams, Coaches & Managers

DIRECTOR OF COACHING
Owen Flannery coach (bio)

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CLINICS & CLASSES

Alpine Ants Preschool Soccer (3-4 year olds)
Wayne Kania coach (bio)

Alpine Attack Soccer Academy (5-6 year olds)
Wayne Kania coach (bio)

AFC Academy (6-8 year olds)
Gino Pucillo coach (bio)

MP Academy (6-8 year olds)
Wayne Kania coach (bio)

Small Group Training 
Several Coaches

Speed & Agility
Ty Blair coach (bio)

Goalkeeping
Scott Myers coach (bio)

Ball Skills
Jose Caballero coach (bio)

Mental Skills
Graham Betchart coach (bio)

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GIRLS

Alpine Strikers 03G AFC RED
Karim Younes manager
Gino Pucillo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03G MP RED
Kim Mullarkey manager
Chris Bobb coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03G MP WHITE
TBD manager
Ernesto Cruz coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03G MP BLUE
TBD manager
Henry Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G AFC RED
Linda Reed manager
Gino Pucillo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G AFC WHITE
Wendy McAdam, manager
Mike Patrick coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G MP RED
Laura Paul manager
Chris Bobb coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G MP WHITE
Alessandra Costa manager
Ernesto Cruz coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G MP BLUE
Robyn Wheeler manager
Ernesto Cruz coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02G MP GOLD
TBD manager
Henry Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01G AFC RED 
Linda Yates manager
Jubin Dana coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01G AFC WHITE
Linda Yates manager
Tulin Mendoza coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01G MP RED
Steve Foster manager
Henry Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01G MP WHITE
TBD manager
Salvador Cerrillo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00G RED
Ken Calhoon manager
Graham Hampton coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00G WHITE
Dan Swisher manager
Ramiro Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00G  BLUE
Carla Sakrison manager
Yang Zhou coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00G GOLD
Mark Watkins manager
Jose Caballero coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 99G RED
Fred Wang manager
Chris Fitzpatrick coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 99G WHITE 
Craig Schmitz manager
Jubin Dana coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 99G BLUE
Rodney Ebstein manager
Yang Zhou coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 98G RED
Jubin Dana manager
Yang Zhou coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 98G WHITE
Jubin Dana manager
Tulin Mendoza coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 97G Raptors RED
Naomi Andrews manager
Yang Zhou coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 97G White 
Gina Gornick manager
Todd Roberts coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 96G RED 
Chris Shaw Manager
Tammy Cole Co- Manager
Grace Mercer-Schott Co-Manager
Ramiro Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 96G WHITE
Sarah Wright Co-Manager
Susan McDonnell Co-Manager
Ramiro Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 92G Pumas RED
Nancy Ditz manager
Scott Myers coach (bio)

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BOYS

Alpine Strikers 03B AFC RED 
Sarah Bourne Lamb manager
Gino Pucillo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03B AFC WHITE
TBD manager
Mike Patrick coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03B MP RED
Laura Paul manager
Chris Bobb coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 03B MP WHITE
Stacie Zell manager
Dawn Machicao co-manager
Jason Luce coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B AFC RED 
Lisa Dunlevie manager
Paul Moran coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B AFC WHITE 
Lynde Alvarez manager
Mike Patrick coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B AFC BLUE
Soheil Eizadi manager
Jennifer Scher co-manager
Paul Moran coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B MP RED
Cristina Tato manager
Chris Bobb coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B MP WHITE
Sharon Herrell manager
Jason Luce coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 02B MP Blue
TBD manager
Ernesto Cruz coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01B Wolverines RED
Rob Foster manager
Paul Moran coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01B Wolverines WHITE
TBD manager
Tulin Mendoza coach (bio) 

Alpine Strikers 01B MP RED
Sean Cutright manager
Andrea Cutright co-manager
Henry Arredondo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 01B MP WHITE
TBD manager
Salvador Cerrillo coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00B RED
Margot Gallo manager
Graham Hampton coach (bio)  

Alpine Strikers 00B WHITE
TBD manager    
Rick Holland coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 00B BLUE
Jim Price manager
Nick Hatzke coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 99B RED
John Kirkpatrick manager
Graham Hampton coach (bio)   

Alpine Strikers 99B WHITE 
Jennifer Commissaris manager
Rick Holland coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 99B BLUE
Brenda Woodson manager
Nick Hatzke coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 98B RED
Mark Lamb manager
Paul Moran coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 98B WHITE
Amy Weiss manager
Nick Hatzke coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 97B Gators RED 
Adrienne Fioretti manager
Randy Joss co-manager
Graham Hampton coach (bio)

Alpine Strikers 97B Gators WHITE
Jim Diller manager
Rick Holland coach (bio)

MP Strikers 93B WHITE
Peter Ministri manager
Chris Bobb coach (bio)

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Henry Arredondo - henry.arredondo@gmail.com
Henry joins Alpine FC from the San Ramon Soccer Club.  Henry is a local product and was an outstanding player at the Woodside Priory School.

Ramiro Arredondo - miros10@gmail.com
Ramiro returns to the Peninsula where he began his soccer career.  A member of the first Athletic Hall of Fame class at the Woodside Priory School, Ramiro notched an astonishing 96 goals and 70 assists during his high school career.  He played for several youth club teams with whom he won three State Cup Championships and was a member of numerous State, Regional and National teams.  Ramiro played at UC Berkeley, where he was team captain his junior and senior seasons and he earned Pac-10 first team honors for three years and a BA in Art and Architecture in 2001. 

Ramiro's coaching career is no less stellar; he has served as a trainer and coach at the San Ramon Soccer Club since 2001 where he created an Age Specific Training Program.  His U11 team was Nor Cal Premier State Champions in 2008-2009.  Ramiro is active as a scout, evaluator, coach and administrator for a variety of ODP and PDP/iD2 programs and has earned NSCAA Advanced Regional and National Youth Diplomas as well as holding a USSF National C License.

Graham Betchart - graham@gbperformancecoaching.com
Graham Betchart, MA, is the founder of GB Performance Coaching, a unique mental skills training program.  Graham offers personal and team mental skills training as well as clinics and motivational talks.  Graham is developing a unique online training program for Alpine FC players and their parents that will teach how to mentally prepare for and react to challenges in soccer, academics and other arenas.

Ty Blair - finney222@yahoo.com
Ty Blair has a Master of Science degree in Kinesiology and has taught physical Education in Union City since 1990. Ty has been coaching soccer since 1987 at many levels, from U-7 to the Community College and with both genders. Ty also has a very strong background in the sport of Track and Field, coaching at James Logan high school for 10 years, with numerous California State and National champions. Ty has an NSCAA "Advanced National" soccer coaching diploma, as well as the National "B" course, along with completing the National Elite Youth Development Camp held in the U. S. Olympic Training Facility in Chula Vista CA.  Ty's strengths include development of reaction time, acceleration, agility, max velocity, power, strength, body management, coordination, mechanics of proper athletic movement, and flexibility.

Chris Bobb - chrisbobbsoccer4@yahoo.com
Chris Bobb has been coaching for many years in the younger and older age groups. 


Jose Caballero - joswildcat@aol.com
Jose has a wealth of international coaching experience and holds a USSF B license as well as NSCAA Advanced National diploma. Jose is a student of the sport, earning certificates from courses in Brazil, Holland and England.   He is also an experienced classroom academic teacher and personal athletic trainer.  Many of Jose's former players have advanced to play Division 1 college soccer.


Sal Cerrillo - scerrillo51@gmail.com 
Sal Cerrillo has been with our club for the first season. Local product raining from Redwood City having played with Juventus and San Carlos Soccer Clubs respectively throughout his CYSA career. His school soccer career at Menlo-Atherton High School ('93-'97) included being part of a CCS Div. II Champtionship & several league PAL Championships. He played one season ('97-'98) with Canada College Men's team before pursuing coaching. He has been an assistant coach for several different local AYSO teams and bay area CYSA clubs throught the years and currently holds a CYSA E/D and a NSCAA Advanced Regional licenses. He still actively plays competitive men's soccer and is currently one of the head coaches for Woodside Priory Middle School soccer program. 


Ernesto Cruz - coachneto06@yahoo.com

Ernesto Cruz has been head coach of the Palo Alto High School girls' varsity soccer team for the last five years.  Prior to his tenure at Paly, Ernesto coached for four years at Woodside High School.  He has guided the Paly team to CCS playoffs four out of the last five years and in 2009 the team made  CCS Division I finals.  While at Paly, he coached Tersa Noyola, 2007-08 Gatorade Player of the Year.  Cruz has coached the AFC Sting girls team for more than two years and also coached Alpine FC boys and girls at various ages.  He holds  USYS "D" and goalkeeper coaching licenses, a Referee Grade 8 license and PCA certificate.  In August 2010, Ernesto escorted the Alpine FC GU17 Sting to El Salvador, where the group played in several exhibition games and delivered of 1000 pounds of donated soccer gear to young players in San Salvador and Izalco, El Salvador.

Jubin Dana - coachjubin@yahoo.com

Jubin has been involved in coaching and training young athletes for over 20 years.  Jubin's approach to teaching and coaching soccer adapts to the development stages of the athlete and goes beyond athletic ability to target metal discipline and focus. He believes that coaches are teachers. Jubin firmly believes that a competitive environment is critical to player development; a competitive environment means that players are challenged mentally by their teacher and physically by their teammates.  Jubin has coached many different sports; during the time he spent coaching sports like rugby, baseball, and basketball he discovered that each sport has a key component for success. He has taken these key components and blended them into one system for training soccer players.  Jubin's approach to coaching also has a strong focus on injury prevention and strength training. 

Since 2004, Jubin has focused his coaching efforts exclusively on training female soccer athletes.  Jubin is currently the assistant coach of the Foothill College Women's Soccer team.  He is the head coach of the JV team at Sacred Heart Prep, where the team was undefeated during the 2010 Season, finishing First in the JV Girls Soccer Division of the WBAL as well as finishing first in the 2010 Burlingame Winter Showcase tournament (where the team was the only team to go undefeated and shutout all of their opponents in every game).  Jubin's dedication to training and coaching players extend beyond being a professional club coach and high school soccer coach.  He is a volunteer coach and coach instructor for AYSO Region 109.  Jubin started and currently volunteers as the Director of the Spring Select program (with over 140 players and 12 team from U10-U16) and the Director of the VIP program (targeting special needs children) for AYSO Region 109.  He also actively coaches several AYSO spring select teams.  Jubin is an active master instructor with the M&M Soccer Academy, which he founded exclusively for the purpose of providing individual and small group custom tailored training for soccer players as well as training of female youth players to become coaches.

Jubin holds the following soccer coaching licenses: NSCAA National Diploma, NSCAA Advanced National Diploma, AYSO National License, AYSO Coach Instructor , NSCAA High School Coaching Diploma, NSCAA Goal Keeping Level I Diploma

Chris Fitzpatrick - coachcfitz@aol.com
Chris has a wealth of experience at all ages of club soccer as well as ODP and college level.  An assistant coach at De Anza College (women's team), he holds a USSF National B license and a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma.  He has served as a District and State ODP Evaluator since 2003.  Chris has coached the MVLA Raptors from BU9 through BU18; the Raptors were the BU16 State Cup Champions and Regional Semi-finalists and in 2010 they were semifinalists in State Cup and Surf Cup and Norcal State Cup Finalists.  Six of his Raptors were selected to the state ODP pool in 2008 and two made the Regional Pool.  Chris also co-coached the GU18 MVLA Storm to the 2010 State Cup semifinals and the 2009 Rage Showcase Championships.
 

 Owen Flannery - owenflannery@hotmail.com
Owen Flannery joined Alpine FC in August 2008 as the club's inaugural Director of Coaching.  Owen received his BS in Kinesiology from San Jose State University, where he played four years of varsity soccer on a team ranked #1 nationally, and also earned his Master's in Sports Psychology.  He holds the following licenses:

• United States Soccer Federation A License
• National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Advanced License
• National Soccer Coaches Association of America Goalkeeper I & II
• National Soccer Coaches Association of America National Youth License and
• Positive Coaching Alliance Double Gold Club.

Flannery served as Director of Soccer at Menlo College from 2005-2007, where he took the women's team from 0-15 to a California Pacific Conference championship and was twice awarded Coach of the Year honors.  He currently serves as Head Women's Coach at Foothill JC where he has taken the Owls to three consecutive League Championships.  Owen was also appointed DOC at MP Strikers as part of the Alliance between the two clubs.

Graham Hampton - seagullfan@sbcglobal.net
Graham hails from England where he played in the Chelsea academy system.  He played at the State level before twice being selected to play at the highly prestigious International Festival of Youth Soccer.  As an adult, Graham competed at Woking Town, AFC Lewes and AFC Guildford in the lower divisions of professional soccer.  He started coaching boys teams in England in his early 20s and has successfully coached both girls and boys on the peninsula for the last 10+ years.  Graham holds a NSCAA "C" National diploma.

Nick Hatzke - NickHatzke@gmail.com
Nick grew up in the south bay and has been an avid soccer fan since he was a child. His successful soccer career started when he was in high school. He played in college for four years at the University of California and entered the MSL professional career with the Houston Dynamo for two years. Nick has ten years of coaching experience varying from ages of elementary school children to high school teenagers. He continues to be passionate about soccer and enjoys helping the next generation of US players develop.

Rick Holland - hollandrp@gmail.com
Rick  moved to the area from Europe where he had been coaching soccer at the American University of Greece and playing for Helandri Football Club (a 4th division club in Athens) until early 2007.  He coached division III college soccer in St. Louis, MO for two years while earning a Masters degree in Sports Coaching.   RIck hold a NSCAA advanced national coaching license and the level I goalkeeper license and has coached both men's and women's soccer at the high school and college levels. 


Wayne Kania - waynito@hotmail.com
Coach Wayne is a USSF "A" and UEFA "B" licensed coach with 23 years of coaching experience.  He has coaches toddlers through adults including international experience in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and, of course, the United States.  Originally from Sheffield, UK, Wayne has resided in the Bay Area since 1985 and has played locally as well as internationally.

Jason Luce -  jasluce@sbcglobal.net 
Jason Luce has been a coach for several years with MP Strikers and we are excited that continues to coach our younger age groups with the newly merged Alpine Strikers. 
Scott Myers is the head coach of the women's soccer program at Menlo College, having spent two years at Embry-Riddle, in Daytona Beach, FL. Scott served as  a graduate assistant goalkeepr coach for the women's soccer team at Redlands; they won the 2006 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title and Redlands' top goalie earned All-Conference, All-Region, and All-American honors.  Myers also spent time as an assistant for the men's and women's programs at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was a staff coach at the Heartland Soccer Club from 2001-06 where he led the U14 boys to a state title.

Mike Patrick transitioned to coaching after playing at San Jose State from 2000-2003.  He has served as an assistant for the Canada College women's team and at Cupertino High School for the Boys Varsity.  He also has coached at a club level for both boys and girls teams at various ages.

Gino Pucillo - ginopucillo@yahoo.com
Gino comes to Alpine FC from Walnut Creek Soccer Club where he has served as training coordinator for the U9-U10 age group.  He has coached successful teams at De Anza Force (head coach) as well as Foothill College (assistant coach)  and holds his NSCAA Advanced National and Youth National licenses.  He is accredited with Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) and has a BS from San Jose State in Kinesiology where he is finishing his MA in Sports Psychology.  Gino played for the San Francisco Vikings, CYSA-N State ODP, Saint Ignatius College Prep and San Jose State University.

Yang Zhou - yzhoucao@gmail.com 
Yang joined Alpine Strikers in Spring 2011. Yang is on the staff of Julie Foudy's summer camp and she has served as assistant coach for the Academy of Art University 2010 and San Francisco Nighthawks of the WPSL since 2007. She has coached in several clubs in the Bay Area since 2005. 

Yang was the captian of the Chinese National Women's Soccer Team from 1990-1996. She played in two World Cups (1991 and 1995) and achieved a 4th place in 1995. She also participated int two Asian Olympic Games and won first place in 1990 and 1994. She also competed and won first place in the Asian Caup in 1991, 1993 and 1995. 

Yang move to the US in 2001 and attended Notre Dame de Namur University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Adminstration and majoring in Sports Management in 2005. She obtained a general MBA in December 2008.