| Kenny Dale
Soccer - Head Coach
Email: Kenny Dale
The Kenny Dale Era at AWC is only in its fifth year, but it has already become the most successful four-year stretch in the history of Matador Soccer. Dale has been paving a new road for Matador history since the day he was hired, since he became the school’s first-ever full-time head soccer coach when he took the job in February of 2005. Since then, he’s been the first Matadors’ head soccer coach to lead the team to host home playoff games in back-to-back seasons in 2005 & 2006, and last year became the first coach to lead a Matador Soccer squad to three Region I Playoff appearances in a 4-year span. Dale also coached the ’06 squad to 12 conference wins-the most by a single team in AWC Soccer history-and Dale’s teams have averaged just over 10 wins per season. Dale knows Arizona soccer very well, since he came to AWC after seven successful seasons at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona. His 20+ years of soccer coaching experience include stints at Moorpark College, Pepperdine University and Simi Valley High School. Dale has worked with college-level soccer athletes every season since 1988, and has spent 16 seasons as a college head coach. Dale has also coached youth club teams and worked for the Olympic Development Programs in California and Arizona. Dale’s playing career saw him star for the University of Arizona and Kennesaw College in Marietta, Georgia during his college days and for the USISL’s Tucson Amigos. Dale earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1988 and a Master of Arts in History in 1993 from the University of Arizona. He became a USSF ‘A’ licensed coach in 1993 and completed the NSCAA Premier Diploma course in 2005.
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