Experience Matters:   Meet the Directors

Clinic Director, Rob Brule

Rob Brule, is currently the Head Coach of the Waterford High School girls’ soccer team (1994-present) and the Director of Coaching for the Southeast Soccer Club.  He has coached Waterford to 10 Eastern Connecticut Conference Championships in the past 11 years.  His nine consecutive championships boasts the longest running streak of any active or inactive coach in the Eastern Connecticut Conference.  Coach Brule has been selected Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, and 2006 and has taken a program from 0-16 to 16-0 in just twelve years. 

Over the past 10 seasons at Waterford High School, Coach Brule has accumulated a staggering 130-23-12 overall record and his high school team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the state tournament 6 of the past 8 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.  In addition to his coaching responsibilities to the CGSCA, Coach Brule has coached in the Southeast Premier Club for the past 3 years and currently coaches the Southeast U12 and U13 Girls soccer teams. 

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, 2 NSCAA All-New England players, 13 All-State players, 32 All-Area players, 55 All-Conference players and 8 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 All-American, Katie Schoepfer, who was recently drafted in in the 3rd Round of the WPS Draft, by the New York Sky Blue FC with 26th Overall selection.  selected in 2007 and 2009 NSCAA a Division I All-American, 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 the Southeast (CT) Premier Soccer Club's U14G team, Coach Brule is the founder of Connecticut Coast Soccer, established in 1994.  He has been the Director of the Connecticut Coast Soccer Clinic in Waterford, CT and Specialized Team Week Soccer Clinics throughout southeastern Connecticut, since their inception, has completed his USSF National "D" License course as well as the NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma.

Coach Brule holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology, from the University of Maine, where he was a Division I scholarship player from 1986-1990.  Coach Brule played semi-professionally for the Moodus Rowdies and Waterford Xara of the Connecticut Soccer League, winning 4 consecutive Connecticut Soccer League Championships in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994.  He is currently a Program Manager for a non-profit rehabilitation company in Eastern Connecticut and has been a behavioral specialist for children and adults with disabilities for nearly 20 years. 

Coach Brule currently lives in Waterford, CT with his wife Kim and chocolate lab Bailey.

Contact Director, Rob Brule

Assistant Director, Scott McMahon:

Scott returns for his 15th season at the Connecticut Coast Soccer Clinic and 3rd year as the Assistant Director.  He is currently the Head Coach at Guilford High School, Premier Coach with the Guilford Soccer Club, and former Coaching Director of the Guilford Soccer Club.  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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