Our Spring, 2021 Boys Travel Team Coach Of The Year Award winner is Dale Haines, head coach for the LMSC Irmaos Navy, our boys
Under 10 A travel team and co-head coach of LMSC Invictus, our boys Under 17 A team. LMSC Invictus were crowned Under 17 state champions
and advanced to the Region One championship. Dale co-coaches this team along with LMSC Technical Director Sam Lane. Under Dale's leadership,
Invictus has reached the state cup championship game four straight years. This was Invictus' second state championship as they also
won the state cups at U-13 where they advanced to the finals of the Region One competition. Dale also led LMSC Irmaos Navy to the
Under 10 boys state cup semifinals where they lost a tough game in overtime. Irmaos has also had a lot of success in league play and
play up a year against older competition on a regular basis.
Dale was also voted LMSC Travel Team Coach Of The Year this year because of his excellent leadership in leading LMSC through the very
difficult and complicated challenge of Covid-19. Thanks to Dale, no player in LMSC transmitted Covid-19 to another person on a soccer
field and no LMSC player got Covid on a soccer field.
Dale was responsible for deciding when a player needed to be temporarily removed from participating with his / her team and going
into quarantine. Dale also had the difficult task of deciding when a team (travel or intramural) had to temporarily shutdown (both
games and practices). Dale was very instrumental in helping LMSC function successfully during what was probably the biggest obstacle
the club has dealt with in our 50+ year history.