Brian Flanagan brings a storied career as a university-level soccer player and nearly 25 years of broad-based soccer coaching expertise to the Dallas Premier Women's Soccer Club. He began as a boys youth coach in 1989 for Solar Soccer Club, which competed at the highest level in the Lake Highlands Classic League. After Brian finished his playing career at Midwestern State University in 1996, during which time he was named to two All Region Teams, he then continued his career by becoming an MSU women's program assistant coach, where he helped lead the team to the championship game in its first appearance at the Regional NCAA Div II Tournament. In 1998, he returned to Dallas to the Solar Soccer Club to continue his love of youth coaching in addition to becoming a head coach in the North Texas State ODP program.
After coaching several successful Division 1 boys and girls teams through the U14 - U19 age group years for Solar, in 2004 Brian moved to the most prestigious all girls club in the United States, the Sting Soccer Club. He began his career at Sting with an U19 girls team and was able to guide more than half of the girls on that team in obtaining college scholarships to continue their playing careers. After graduating that team, in 2005, he re-started his career at the Academy level and began building teams for the future for Sting. He began with the 97's and built a Top 5 Division 1 team that competes in the Lake Highlands Girls Classic League and has been to the State Cup Semi-Finals the last two years. He also developed a '99 team in 2006 that has been one of the Top 2 teams in Dallas for the past three years.
Brian has built a reputation of coaching nationally recognized teams, while mentoring individual players to play and be successful at all stages of their careers. Brian believes that the key to a good coach is commitment, leadership, and communication. A good coach must be looked upon as a leader to his team and be able to communicate a player's responsibilities within different systems of play in order to have the ability to adjust to opponents strategies to get the highest performance from his players in order to achieve the required result. He believes in challenging his players individually and as a group to strive for greatness through their persistent efforts and their commitment to the team.
Brian graduated from MSU in 1996 and has a degree in Exercise Sports Science. He and his wife, Marsha, and their two children, live in Murphy, Texas. |
