Zack Wiegand

I have experience coaching for Seattle United for the past 2 years, and since then it's become my full time "job", job in parenthesis since I'm lucky enough to have this opportunity of truly loving every aspect of the job that it doesn't feel like a job at all! I coach at the premier youth soccer level. I work with small age groups the U8 and U9 level, but I am absolutely open to coaching anybody that loves the game of soccer! I have my all my US soccer grassroots license, currently working on getting my US D license and going to continue of furthering my education in the years to come!

My athletic accomplishments were coming back from a ~3 year hiatus 2020-2023, training day in and day out to get back on a team fro my local community college (junior college level) then making it on a semi-pro team and traveling down to Fresno California for an opportunity to play at the USL 2 level. So I whole heartedly believe by never giving up, giving it your best, trying to improve just a sliver a day, you will reach your dreams! As of the moment I have an achilles injury so my semi-pro season ended back in February as of recently I got cleared to run again, and in doing so, my own soccer training will be going full steam ahead and I have high hopes that I'll be back to paying at the USL 2 or USL 1 level real soon! Some of my rewards was back in 2020 my crossfire team played in the gold division of the crossfire challenge, we played the entire tournament undefeated and ended up winning it! Another accomplishment as being a coach is my oldest boys U9 this last season lost the first game and went the rest of the season undefeated!

A client can expect to have their kids have the time of their lives at training as it's my belief to always make training and practice fun as they should be enjoying what they're doing first most. After that I'm a huge fan of always working on the basic and fundamental techniques and working towards mastery. As minute the drills may seem, from afar growth is all in the details and it's my job to give the athletes the littlest bit of tips and insight to bettering their technique. I only use words of encouragement as much as my job is to help the athlete my responsibility is to bring in energy and only positive energy for when you have fun you play beautifully. I assess how an athlete works in what way do they listen to instructions, tips, praise and since every athlete is different I have to remain myself but teak my approach so every athlete can get the most out of me but most importantly the session and themselves!