Coaches Corner

     When GCSU elected to introduce a soccer program in the Spring of 2003, Robert Parr was picked to mold the Lady Bobcats team.
     “When I saw the announcement that (GCSU) was going to start a soccer program that really appealed to me,” Parr said. “I was fortunate that this was my top choice and I was their top choice.”
     Parr has been coaching for nearly 20 years. He got his first coaching job while he was still in high school.
     “I was coaching my younger brothers team,” Parr said. “It was a select level team that had been struggling and I volunteered to coach and we moved them up a level and we won. I guess when you have some success early on, you kind of get hooked.”
     Parr has been coaching ever since.
     After playing soccer at the University of Texas, he took over their men’s coaching job.
     “I actually replaced the coach I had played for there,” Parr said. “Eighteen months later we were national champs and you just kind of keep on going. With coaching it was kind of like, I was a capable player but never a star by any stretch. I just had a lot more success coaching.”
     Parr left UT in 1995 to serve as the Director of Training at the American Soccer Club, a women’s select soccer program co-founded by his wife, Michelle, in Austin, Texas, before the Lady Bobcats have began training for the Fall 2007 season, Parr is expecting good things.
     “There have been struggles, but we are getting better every season,” Parr said. “It’s been a lot of work but we are getting more cohesive and hopefully we will peak at the right time next season.”

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