It is a new period for FAMU DRS as Patrick Clever has been named the brand new head coach of the Child Rattlers.
Clever, a South Carolina native, has hung out in numerous roles throughout Large Bend highschool and center college packages, most lately as the pinnacle coach at Swift Creek Center College. Clever has hung out on the teaching staffs of Jefferson County and Lincoln.
Clever replaces Alex Williams, who was this system’s final official head coach, and interim head coach Willie Ferrell, who led this system after Williams’s mid-season departure final yr.
“To have the ability to come right here and be a part of the FAMU Household, that was a giant draw for me,” Clever stated. “To be a part of a program that is affiliated with an HBCU, that is what I like about soccer. I am a kind of guys that likes to assist construct issues up, I do know this system has been down earlier than, nevertheless it has custom and has been actually good prior to now and I believe it is a sleeping large.”
“I am up for the duty of waking that sleeping large up.”
Enjoying faculty soccer at Allen College following his time within the Military, Clever started his teaching profession instantly after his taking part in profession ended, transferring to South Carolina State College and becoming a member of the college’s teaching workers.
Taking up as the pinnacle soccer coach at FAMU DRS, Clever is seeking to construct his program each on the sphere and off it. He stated that you would be able to’t play soccer endlessly, and he desires to organize his gamers for no matter they wish to do sooner or later.
“Soccer goes to return to an finish for all of us, even for these of us who’re lucky sufficient to go on and be Corridor of Famers,” Clever stated. “I would like my guys to know that there’s life outdoors of soccer. I do not need them to only be outlined as a soccer participant.”
Liam Rooney covers preps sports activities for the Tallahassee Democrat. Contact him through e mail at LRooney@gannett.com or on Twitter @__liamrooney
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