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   Abel Thomason - Women's Varsity Head Coach

     

Abel Thomason, our new varsity women's coach, has played soccer since he could walk and is excited to join the East Michigan Panthers! He has coached soccer, including coaching his own children, for more than fifteen years at various levels, including five years coaching a girls' Crush team. He is a technical coach whose focus is on building a strong skill set for each girl on the team. He and his wife, Jen, have ten children and one grandchild. Jen and their daughter Eva will be assisting Abel this season. 

    Mary Recznik - Girls' Middle School Head Coach 

        

Mary Recznik and her husband John moved to Michigan in 2017 from  Steubenville, Ohio.  As their three children grew up, Mary was a homeschooling mom and offered a science network for many other homeschoolers in the Steubenville area. She served as girls soccer coach for 10U through high school for their home school teams. She also served as youth minister for 10 years.  Mary is currently teaching junior high and high school classes in the CtK and St. Pat's homeschool co-ops and is excited to coach the middle school girls team. 🙂

Courtney Stewart - Girls' Middle School Assistant Coach

       

Courtney Stewart and her husband live in Brighton. They have 5 children ages 2 to 11 whom they homeschool. Courtney's older four children attend St. Augustine's HEP and we are involved parishoners at our home church, St Patrick's in Brighton.
Courtney loves the outdoors and being active with her children. She has always had a passion for coaching and playing soccer. Courtney played collegiate soccer at Grand Valley State University and then went on to coach local select soccer, and now enjoys coaching her children in various sports within the community. Courtney is so excited to coach for the Panthers and share her love for the game."