Boys Sophomore Clinic

Game

An 11 v 11 game with two 35-minute halves will conclude the clinic.
SC1 vs SC2, 4:00pm, Field 7

Featured clinicians

Coach Reid Ayers

Coach Reid Ayers of Baldwin Wallace University is the winningest men’s soccer coach in the history of Baldwin Wallace University. Coach Ayers and his outstanding coaching staff have worked hard to develop the Yellow Jacket program into one of the best in the prestigious Ohio Athletic Conference with a long-term goal of leading the Yellow Jackets to the NCAA Division III National title.

Consistently tabbed as one of the strongest programs in the Great Lakes Region, Ayers led his team to national prominence by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) three of the past five seasons. The Yellow Jackets achieved their highest ranking in 2008 (7th) and were recognized in the Top Ten in 2011 and 2006. Coach Ayers lead the Yellow Jackets to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in the 2011 season.

Ayers holds his National ‘A’ and National Youth Licenses from the United States Soccer Federation. He is currently a member of the U.S. Soccer coaching staff, where he assists in selecting players for inclusion into the country’s youth national teams, highlighted with an appointment at the prestigious U14 National Identification Camp four of the last five years. He is an Age Group Head Coach for the Region II Olympic Development Staff, where he assesses and trains the elite players from 13 different states preparing them for domestic and international competition.

Coach Graham Ford

Coach Graham Ford is in his 19th season as Head Coach of Men’s soccer at The College of Wooster, having guided the Fighting Scots to wins close to 60 percent of the time. Overall, Ford holds a career record of 148–127–33 (.534) entering 2013.

Highlighting his tenure at Wooster, where he served as an assistant coach for four years before taking over in 1995, the Scots went unbeaten during the regular season in 2002 (15–0–3) and were ranked as high as No. 2 in NCAA Div. III, followed by back-to-back North Coast Athletic Conference co-championships (in 2003 and 2004). That three-year run saw Wooster produce a 40–7–6 record, with Ford collecting NCAC Coach-of-the-Year honors in 2003.

Active in the youth soccer community, Ford formerly was co-director of Pennine United (Hudson, Ohio), and he has also worked with the Cleveland United and Ohio Premier clubs. Additionally, he is an Olympic Development State Team coach for Ohio North, an NSCAA advanced licensed coach, a USSF staff clinician, and the director of the Wooster Soccer Academy (a one-week summer camp).

A 1989 graduate of the University of Staffordshire in England, Ford earned a degree in sports management and exercise physiology. He was a player and a coach for six years in England’s top semi-professional league and the director of the F.A. Coaching Center in Manchester from 1986 – 1989.

Team rosters

The rosters were last updated on July 22.