Moe's Coaches Spotlight: Randy May - Stone Bridge
Creating success on the soccer field in 2007 has not been difficult for Stone Bridge head soccer coach Randy May. Success has not only come in the sense that the team has had a winning season as opposed to last year, but for Coach May, he was able to pick up his 100th victory as the Stone Bridge soccer coach this year against South Lakes this year.
Gameday Magazine: How did you get started on coaching soccer?
Randall May: I started in high school with youth players, but then in 1979, I started coaching full time at the college level as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University.
GM: Take us through a brief history of your coaching career.
RM: I started at VCU, in 1980; I took my first head coaching job at Eisenhower College. The college closed two years later and then I took my job at Cornell in 1982. I stayed there until 2000. I then coached at West Springfield until 2004 and then I came to Stone Bridge.
GM: How did you get the Stone Bridge job?
RM: In 2004, Jim Felix, who at the time was a teacher here at Stone Bridge, and also a girls soccer coach, notified me that there was going to be an opening here in the P.E. Department. I got that job, and then decided to interview for the position of boys soccer coach, and I got it.
GM: Did you play soccer in high school and/or college?
RM: I played from middle school, high school, and I went to Lock Haven University and played soccer there. My senior year at Lock Haven, we won the National Championship, and three out of my four years there, we made the NCAA Tournament.
GM: What is the best part about coaching to you?
RM: That each year, I get an opportunity to see young people grow in both talent and character. It's always interesting to see a player come out of nowhere and be a star for the team.
GM: What were the expectations for your team coming into the 2007 spring season?
RM: Simply a winning season, we didn't have one last year and we just wanted to get back on the winning track.
GM: Due to your success throughout year, how have the expectations changed?
RM: They haven't really, we did do better than most people expected, but we don't want people to think that it's a fluke, so we just want to continue our success into the playoffs.
GM: What has impressed you the most about your squad this year?
RM: Our resiliency, and just that sometimes we got frustrated; we fought through and continued our success. Also our selflessness had impressed me.
GM: How did the 100th victory feel?
RM: It felt satisfying, however, I'm not in it for myself, all that mark means is that since I've been at Stone Bridge, I've watched 100 games where my players have succeeded and I'm just here to guide them.
