Experience Matters: Meet the Directors
Camp Director, Rob Brule
Rob Brule, is currently the Head Coach of the Waterford High School girls’ soccer team (1994-present) with a career coaching record of 160-64-21. He has coached Waterford to nine consecutive Eastern Connecticut Conference Championships, the longest running streak of any active or inactive coach in the Eastern Connecticut Conference. Coach Brule has been selected Coach of the Year by his peers in 2001, 2002, and 2006 and has taken a program from 0-16 to 16-0 in just twelve years. Over the past 9 championship seasons at Waterford High School, Coach Brule has accumulated a staggering 121-18-8 overall record and his high school team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the state tournament 6 of the past 7 seasons.
Since 2001, Coach Brule has been an active member of the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association (CGSCA) and sits on the NSCAA All-American Selection Committee, the NSCAA All-New England Selection Committee, the “Gatorade” Connecticut State Player of the Year Selection Committee and the Connecticut High School Senior Bowl Selection Committee. From 2001-2004, he served as Vice President of the CGSCA and currently acts as the Eastern Connecticut Conference’s League Representative to the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association.
During his coaching career, Coach Brule has produced 3 Eastern Connecticut Conference Players of the Year, 4 Norwich Bulletin Players of the Year, 3 New London Day Players of the Year, 11 CGSCA All-State players, 27 All-Area players, 46 All-Conference players and 7 Connecticut Senior Bowl players. As of 2007, ten of his players have gone on to play competitively at the collegiate level, 5 Division I scholarship players, 2 Division II players and 3 Division III players.
Most notably, in 2005, he coached and mentored Penn State University sophomore, Katie Schoepfer, who was selected to the 2007 NSCAA Division I All-America Second Team, was Waterford High School's first U.S National Team player, first female soccer player selected All-American, first Connecticut "Gatorade" High School Soccer Player of the Year and Waterford High School's first athlete to be featured in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd".
In 2002, he led Waterford to it's first State Championship Final appearance, outscored opponents 90-10, finished the season at 17-2-1 and ended the season ranked 10th in Connecticut's Adidas/Coaches Final Soccer Poll and one of the Eastern Connecticut Conference’s most talented girls high school soccer teams ever assembled.
In addition to coaching the Waterford High School girls' soccer team and being the founder and Director of the Connecticut Coast Soccer Camp, Coach Brule coaches the Southeast U-11 Premier girls’ soccer team.
Contact Director, Rob Brule
Assistant Director, Scott McMahon:
Scott returns for his 13th season at the Connecticut Coast Soccer Camp in a new capacity, as Assistant Director. He is currently the Head Coach at Guilford High School, Premier Coach with the Guilford Soccer Club, and Director of Guilford's PeeWee soccer program. Scott has continued his playing career and is amongst the league leaders in goals and assists in the Connecticut Soccer League.
Scott was an All-New England Selection and 2-time All-State Selection at Old Lyme (CT) High School and holds the school record for most goals scored in a season (33) while scoring 57 for his career. Scott was recruited by the top Division I programs in the nation out of high school before selecting Cornell University of the Ivy League. During his college years, Scott was selected the Ivy League's Player of the Week twice and helped them attain a #12 national ranking.
Scott is currently a certified teacher at Baldwin Middle School in the town of Guilford where he lives with his three daughters. In addition to coaching, Coach McMahon is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association, and the CIAC All-State and Senior Bowl Selection Committees.
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