Coach
Pat McKinney - Scona Soccer Plus Director
- Over 30 years of coaching experience.
- Canadian Soccer Association National B License Coach.
- Coached a wide array of levels: community, club, school, individual, small group, provincial, youth, adult, female and male alike.
- Pioneered the inclusion of soccer as an optional subject in school curriculums and has run programs in a number of local schools including Clover Bar, Madonna, and St. Theresa Middle School.
- Soccer, he firmly believes, is much more than just another game; it’s an educational, life skill, development course, embracing -- physical development, social skills, mental attitude, team work, goal setting, and communication.
- Why Pat coaches: "It’s the satisfaction that comes from watching young players develop and grow, then the excitement of seeing some of them progressing to provincial, college, university and the occasional national or professional teams... players like Waldo Dutra, Christina Kalina, Lauren Granberg, Taylor and Tara Nay, Maryse Beauregard, and my son Gavin who has parlayed the experience into a fulltime University coaching position in Tennessee."