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Head Coach:
Emiria Salzmann
With a lengthy soccer resume involving success both as
a player and coach, Salzmann (30) is poised to provide outstanding
organization, tactical knowledge and leadership to the new Sol women’s team
that will be playing in the Women’s Professional Soccer League (WPSL). She
has a strong background coaching women soccer players at the high level at
which Sol competes. Most recently she served as the Assistant Coach at
Sonoma State Women’s Team. For 3 years prior, Salzmann served as an
Assistant Coach at the Division I Long Beach State Women’s Team, which
competed in the Big West Conference.
Salzmann had success coaching at the high school level
in Sonoma County where she was head coach at Ursuline in 1998 and her alma
mater Piner High in 1999. At Ursuline, her team attained both North Coast
Section and CIF championships, while rising to a #2 national high school
ranking. In youth soccer, she coached for several years with Santa Rosa
United where her team “Thunder” captured the State Cup championship and
advanced to the Regional finals. Her first year, during which she took an
underachieving team to a 1998 State Cup championship, was chronicled in the
book The Beautiful Game by Jonathan Lippman.
As a player, Salzmann broke the
single season all time scoring record for Sonoma State University in 1996,
the year she attained All American Honors. Prior to that, she led her team
in scoring at Santa Rosa Junior College and all 3 years she played at Piner
High School. Salzmann also has playing experience in the league
in which she will coach,
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Coach Emiria Salzmann
on the semi professional Sacramento Storm and Sacramento Thunder. She
traveled abroad in 2000-01 to Holland to play with the NEC Nimigen team
where she sustained an injury that ended her career on the field.
Salzmann has a B.A. degree in Philosophy and will complete her Master’s
Degree in Sports Psychology from Long Beach State in 2006. She has a
National “D” Coaching License and a National Soccer Coaches Association of
America Regional Diploma. She was also an Academic All American at Sonoma
State University. Emiria Salzmann can be reached by email at Emiria@yahoo.com |
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Assistant
Coach:Brian Halloran
Salzmann and Halloran coached together previously with the
Santa Rosa United Thunder, the team that won the State Cup championship in
1998 and was the subject of the book entitled "The Beautiful Game" in 1999.
Salzmann and Halloran also teamed up in 1999 to coach the Piner High School
varsity team in an attempt to revive the soccer tradition at Salzmann's alma
mater. Their coaching history resulted in a great friendship and a desire
from both parties to coach again in the future. "I am excited about
the opportunity to be associated with the Sol and for our local players to
have the opportunity to play at the highest level of women's soccer in the
United States. I am looking forward to working with Emiria again and have
enjoyed previous times I have assisted her." Salzmann added, "Coaching
with Brian for four years was one of the best and most fulfilling coaching
experiences I have ever had. Not only do I trust Brian completely both as a
person and as a soccer mind, but he will add humor and objectivity and give
me the balance that I need as a Head Coach." Halloran has been a Santa Rosa
United coach since 1997, Piner High School varsity coach from 2000-2003, and
holds a USSF "D" license. He is a Scorpio and enjoys nights at home by
the fireplace. |
