Robert Brule

Rob Brule, is currently the Director of Coaching for the Southeast Soccer Club (SSC) and Head Coach of the Waterford High School girls’ soccer team (1994-present). He has coached Waterford to 12 Eastern Connecticut Conference Championships in the past 13 years, has been selected Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2010 and has taken a program from 0-16 to 16-0 in just twelve years.

Over the past 12 seasons at Waterford High School, Coach Brule has accumulated a staggering 160-32-14 overall record, 12 of his players have gone on to play competitively at the collegiate level, 6 Division I scholarship players, 2 Division II players and 4 Division III players. Coach Brule has produced 5 Players of the Year, 2 NSCAA All-New England players, 15 All-State players, 35 All-Area players, 59 All-Conference players and 11 Connecticut Senior Bowl all-star players. In 2002, he led Waterford to its first State Championship Final appearance, outscored opponents 90-10, finished the season at 17-2-1 and ended the season ranked 10th in final Connecticut Coach’s Soccer Poll and one of the Eastern Connecticut Conference’s most talented girls high school soccer teams ever assembled. Most notably, he coached and mentored U23 National Team and Penn State University All-American, Katie Schoepfer, who was drafted in the 3rd Round of the 2010 WPS Draft, by the New York Sky Blue FC with 26th overall selection.

Coach Brule has completed the USSF National “D” License and NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma and is the former Vice President of the Connecticut Girls Soccer Coaches Association.  He 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. He lives in Waterford with his wife, Kim.