Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Shawn returns for his second full year with the Nationals and will be working with the Boys 95 Blue.  Shawn has a vast and varied resume, beginning with the SYSA U17 Girls in San Diego in 1991.  Shawn has also worked with the Orange Park YMCA boys teams as well as Clay County Soccer club in Florida.  He has also worked with the US Navy and coached teams from the USS Carl Vinson, which won the international Col Usher Armed Forces Soccer tournament in 1998.  Shawn’s experience also includes South County Football Club,Trinity Lutheran College as an assistant, Tyne-castle FC U23 Head Coach, and MRFC U15 & U16 Head Coach.  He holds an NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma and a Level 1 Coaching Certification from the English FA.  

Shawn has also traveled the world through soccer and has coached teams that competed in East Asia and Northern Iraq, where he helped develop a local soccer league as a means of bringing local communities together, and to help combat insurgent infiltrations of local villages.  Shawn began playing soccer in Trinidad & Tobago at the Mucurapo Boys R.C. School and Mucurapo Jr Secondary School and Ross Land United.  His playing success also earned him the privilege of representing Trinidad & Tobago at the U16 level.  Shawn also played on the developmental teams at Manchester United from 1986-1988.

Contact Shawn at shawn@soccerfootskillstraining.com