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- Navigating Youth Soccer Tryouts
- What to Evaluate When Considering a New Club or Team
- Dealing with Personal Parent Stress
- Help your Child Deal with Their Stress
- Having Difficult Conversations with Coaches
- What to Do If Your Child Doesn’t Make the Team
- and more!
SPEAKER INFO:
Dan Abrahams
Dan Abrahams is a global sport psychologist who works alongside some of the leading players, teams, coaches and organizations in the world. He is known for his passion and ability to de-mystify sport psychology, as well as his talent for creating easy to understand and simple to use techniques and performance philosophies.
A former professional golfer and PGA golf coach Dan has a First Class Honors degree in psychology and Masters degree in sport psychology. Academically he is visiting lecturer at several universities and he holds registration with the HCPC (meaning he is legally allowed to practice as a psychologist).
Dan works in all sport but specializes in football/soccer and golf. He is Lead Psychologist for England Golf and he works with players from leading amateur through to Tour players. In football/soccer psychology he is regarded as a leader in the field. He has some of the leading turnaround case studies in Premier League history and he has written two international bestselling books. One of these books, Soccer Tough, has been heralded one of the most important books in football. He currently works with players, teams and organizations across 'Planet Football.'
Dan also works in the Corporate Sector delivering his sport psychology techniques and philosophies to individuals and groups.
Jay Howell
Jay Howell enters his seventh season as head coach of women’s soccer at Randolph-Macon in the Fall of 2020.
In addition to working at Randolph-Macon, Howell is the Executive Director of the Richmond Strikers Soccer Club and the Elite Clubs National League Director for Richmond United. Howell holds an USSF "A” License and is a Scout for US Soccer, Staff Coach for US Club Soccer’s id2 National Program and currently serves on the ECNL Board of Directors.
Prior to joining the Richmond Strikers, Howell was the Executive Director for the Birmingham United Soccer Association in Birmingham, Ala., from 2010-12 and served as the Director of Coaching for the Capital Area Soccer League (CASL) in Raleigh, N.C., from 1999-2010.
Howell graduated from the University of Richmond in 1989 with a B.A. in political science. He was the head coach of the women’s soccer varsity team at Douglas Freeman High School from 1993-97 and served as assistant coach for the men’s team at his alma mater from 1995-97. Howell also was club director and director of coaching for the Richmond Capitals Soccer Club from 1993-97.
In 1997, Howell moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., to become an assistant coach for the men’s soccer program at the University of North Carolina for two years. He handled administrative duties as well as daily training for the student-athletes. Howell helped rebuild the program into a national power.