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2025
Camp
Director
Gerald “Jerry” Hare: Founder
& Director of Hare Goalkeeper Academy and Volunteer Assistant Soccer
Coach for DIII Westminster College (PA) Men’s & Women’s Soccer teams, Middle
School Head Soccer Coach and Varsity Assistant Soccer Coach for Shady Side
Academy. Coach Hare has been coaching for thirty-three years with specialty
in goalkeeping. His coaching stops have included Hampton High School Boys’
Varsity Soccer (Goalkeeper Coach), Hampton Soccer Club (Head Coach for U-14
Girls), North Catholic High School Girls’ Varsity Soccer (Head Coach) and
Woodland Hills High School Boys’ Soccer (Assistant Varsity Soccer and Head
JV Coach). For the past twenty-six years, he has
been a Varsity Assistant Soccer Coach and Goalkeeper Coach at Shady Side
Academy for the boys’ & girls’ varsity soccer teams, as well as Head
Soccer Coach for 7th & 8th
Grade Coed Soccer team. Currently, he continues to
work in the same positions for the Varsity Boys’ & Girls’ Soccer teams
as well as for 7th & 8th
Grade Coed Soccer team. Since
1999 at Shady Side Academy, his boys’ goalkeepers have a combined GAA (goal
away average) of 0.94 and a combined GAA of 1.02 for the girls’
goalkeepers.
In
2018, Coach Hare was part the men’s soccer coaching staff that helped
direct the team to win President Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship
match 1-0 against Grove City and first round appearance to the NCAA DIII
Soccer Tournament in which I helped senior AJ Bove
ranked third in PAC in goals against average (0.68) and broke the program
record for career shutouts with 25. The Titans only conceded 7 goals
against conference foes in the regular season.
In
2022, he helped freshman Morgan Murphy to a successful season, which she started
all 20 matches for Westminster, going 14-4-2 while posting a league-low
.697 goals-against average. Murphy totaled 90 saves and owned a
.874 save percentage, which ranked 24th in Division III. In 10 regular
season conference starts she went 9-1 with a 0.44 goals-against
average. She led the conference with seven shutouts last fall,
including four in league play. She was named as the PAC Newcomer of the
Year award and the championship tournament's Most Outstanding Player
following Westminster's 2-0 shutout of Franciscan in the title match, in
which, she made 12 saves against Franciscan after recording seven saves and
stopping three shootout attempts during the 1-1 semifinal draw with
Chatham.
In
2023, Coach Hare helped sophomore Murphy to another successful season,
which she started all 18 matches for the Titans last season, going 13-4.
Her .707 goals-against average (GAA) and .876 save percentage rank second
in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) while her 78 saves were fourth
in the league. Murphy had three shutouts (4 combined shutouts) last fall.
She was named the PAC Defensive Player of the Week twice (Sept. 18, 25)
last season, Murphy was named a United Soccer Coaches Division III
All-Region VII First Team pick on Nov. 28. She has started 38-straight
matches and has 10 career shutouts. Her 0.70 career GAA currently ranks
23rd among active Division III leaders. Just recently, Murphy secured Third
Team All-America honors.
This
past season (Fall 2024), Westminster Women’s Soccer has completed another winning season,
finished the regular season in first place with 9-0-1 record in the
President Athletic Conference but lost in a tough championship game against
Grove City in PAC Tournament with score of 4-3. Westminster Women’s Soccer
ended with an overall record of 11-6-1. For the third year in a row, Coach
Hare helped Junior Morgan Murphy to another outstanding season, who
spearheaded Westminster's defensive effort that finished with five shutouts
and limited its opponents to a 1.88 goals per game average in 2024.
In
nine PAC regular season appearances (8 starts), Murphy went 8-0-1 with a
0.77 goals-against average (GAA). She claimed United Soccer Coaches
All-America honors last December, securing a spot on the Third Team. In 51
career starts, Murphy owns a 36-13-2 record while sporting a 1.00 GAA, a
.841 save percentage and 13 shutouts. She is Westminster's second-straight
PAC Defensive Player of the Year selection.
Since
2017 at Westminster, his men’s goalkeepers have a combined GAA (goal away
average) of 1.08 and a combined GAA of 0.83 for the women’s goalkeepers.
Post-season experience has included:
Westminster
College (2017-present)
Men
- President’s Athletic Conference Champion (2018)
President’s Athletic Conference
Runner-up (2020-2021)
NCAA DIII National Tournament
Appearance
Eastern College
Athletic Conference Tournament
Appearance (2019,
2021)
Women - President’s Athletic
Conference Champion (2022)
President’s
Athletic Conference Runner-up (2018, 2021, 2023,
2024)
Eastern College Athletic Conference
Tournament
Appearance (2017, 2018, 2021)
Shady Side Academy (1998-present)
Boys - Section Champions
(1999-2002, 2004-2008, 2013, 2020-2022)
WPIAL Class AA
Champions (1990, 2017)
WPIAL Class AA
Runner-up (2002, 2016, 2020, 2023)
WPIAL Class A Runner-up
(2006, 2008)
WPIAL Class AA Third
Place (2019)
WPIAL Class A Third
Place (2007)
WPIAL Class AA
Semifinalists (2001, 2013)
PIAA Class AA
Semifinalist (2001, 2016, 2023)
PIAA Class A
Semifinalist (2008)
PIAA Class AA
Quarterfinalist (2002, 2017)
PIAA Class A
Quarterfinalist (2006-2007)
Girls - Section Champions (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)
WPIAL Class A
Champions (2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)
WPIAL Class AA
Runner-up (2004-2005, 2023)
WPIAL Class AA
Semifinalist (2020)
WPIAL Class A
Runner-up (2017)
WPIAL Class A Third Place (2012,
2014, 2015)
PIAA Class A State
Champions (2017)
PIAA Class A Runner-Up
(2016, 2019)
PIAA Class A
Semifinalist (2012-2013)
PIAA Class AA
Semifinalist (2018, 2023)
PIAA Class A
Quarterfinalist (2010-2011)
PIAA Class AA
Quarterfinalist (2004)
Hampton High School (1990)
Boys - Section Champions
WPIAL Class AA
Champions
PIAA Class AA State
Champions
His playing experience has included Hampton High
School (1982-1983), Community College of Allegheny County Center North Indoor
Soccer Club (1983-1984), Southern Illinois University Soccer Club
(1984-1987) and adult soccer leagues for eight years. Hare holds national
and regional diplomas from National Soccer Coaches Association (NSCAA).
Coach Hare is a certified CPR Trainer and Sport Safety Trainer (American
Red Cross). Westminster
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