National award for West Seattle Soccer Club coach Jean Robinson

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Huge congratulations to Jean Robinson, a West Seattle Soccer Club coach who has just won a 2011 Coach of the Year award from the U.S. Youth Soccer organization (details here). WSSC’s Tim McMonigle tells WSB that he nominated Coach Robinson after the 2010 season, “and it has taken this long to get to the national level” – he coached a boys’ U-18 team with her that year (going 12-0), and then, he says, “She went back and started with a girls’ U-7 team last spring, and last fall coached a girls’ U-8 team. She is starting over. And the parents love her.”

Tim McMonigle February 21, 2012 (8:29 pm)

Jean – this is well deserved! You did a great job pulling boys from vastly different backgrounds together to provide them with an experience they will remember all their lives! Congratulations!

Denise February 22, 2012 (4:12 pm)

Congratulations to Jean! Your dedication, time, love of soccer and positive coaching were a gift to the boys on your team and to the parents of those teenage boys. This is well deserved honor for an amazing person!

Mz. C February 23, 2012 (8:45 am)

You were a second mom to our Chief Sealth Somali kids. Thank you!

Sydel February 23, 2012 (8:07 pm)

We were so honored to have Jean coach our daughter’s U8 team last Fall. Jean is phenomenal with the kids. Her love for the game is a gift that she shares faithfully with great care and dedication. Our daughter says, “Coach Jean is a really awesome coach!” We are so proud of Jean.