PHS Girls Soccer

Coach Al enters his 18^th season at the helm of the PHS Girls’ Soccer Program.  Under Coach Al, Parkland has won 2 LVC & 8 EPC titles of the programs total of 15 League titles along with 9 District XI Championships of the programs 16 DXI Titles. Al has been named League Coach of the Year and the Morning Call’s Coach of the Year 8 times. In addition, 8 times, his team was selected as the Team of the Year by the Morning Call.  Coach Al played his soccer at Salisbury High & Penn State Hazleton as well as many of the open and senior clubs in the Lehigh Valley over the past 40 years.  Coach earned his USSF “A” Coaching license back in 2003 and brings a tremendous amount of passion for soccer to the girls.  Academics and Community Involvement are the foundation to this program.  A Certified Investment Management Analyst, Senior Vice President Wealth Advisor and Senior Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley for over 38 years, Coach Al is married to the program’s #1 fan (Jeanne for 40 yrs) and finds his family growing, ironically all PHS Grads.  Joel ‘03 and wife Brittany ‘06 and grandsons, Coleson & Jackson, Tony ’05, Megan ‘07 and husband Corey ’07 and grandson Nathan & granddaughter Addison.

Coach Al’s two favorite quotes: “We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”  ~ Aristotle  “You are never so tall as when you stoop down to help a child.” ~ Abraham Lincoln