Coach Mike Craven                           Michael_d_Craven@msn.com

Team Manager April Dougherty           AABDougherty@aol.com

Trainer Jim Stevens                          jgs3@Lehigh.EDU

Treasurer Kevin Maisel                       Kevin.maisel@us.army.mil

If you have any financial questions please contact:

Checks can be mailed to:KEVIN MAISEL
9299 Mainsail DriveBurke, VA  22015

 

 

 

 

 

The Scoop

Mike CRAVEN 

The BIO  

I played club soccer with BRYC for 10 years, many years ago.  I have coached youth soccer with Burke Athletic Club for three years, both girls and boys.  My philosophy is to teach the team how to be better persons as well as to become better soccer players.  I am trained "E Class" coach and a firm believer in positive coaching practices.  
The Real Story:   I began my soccer journey with the Braddock Road Boys Club as
the center midfielder of a victory-challenged team.  We went on to set many, still unbroken, records for futility but managed to have an immense amount of fun. I spent one season with the Markt-Bergl West German soccer club where we learned about soccer.  I ran through the snow with the team until they mentioned that I would never play and was pretty much wasting my time. I joined the Carlisle Soccer club where I was again a starting midfielder for an average team. Returning to BRYC for 5 more years, I found my home as a defensive specialist, occasionally playing behind our skill-challenged keeper.  We scored many of own goals that season.  The keeper and team soon became proficient and we  reigned supreme of the league for about two years. In College, I was a star performer on the Fraternity intermural "C" for small-sided games.                                  

With children, comes responsibility as a soccer parent.  When the coach of my daughter’s team was leaving the area, I was found to be the only parent with a soccer background.  Installed as coach of a U12G team of special girls, we went on to glory and greatness, leading the league in fun and merriment for 3 seasons. Rudely awakened by a 10-2 drubbing in our first U14 game, we began to get  serious about soccer, for about a week.  Fun and merriment continued as we developed a Savage culture where we tried to instill in the players that playing the right way is more important than winning and that winning and being a winner are not the same.

 

 

jim STEVENS

Jim joins the Barracudas as a Golden Boot Soccer trainer. 

• Played professionally for the Harrisburg City Islanders

• Trained with Burscough Football Club, FA trophy winners

• Played for Lehigh University

• Staff trainer at Lehigh University soccer academy

• Staff trainer at the Harrisburg City Islanders soccer academy

• Staff trainer at One on One soccer camps

• Currently staff trainer at Golden Boot Soccer