HARE GOALKEEPER ACADEMY

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CAMP STAFF 2019

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. Coach Hare has been coaching for twenty-eight 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 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 Assistant 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 Assistant Coach for 7th & 8th Grade Coed Soccer team.

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 NSCAA National Goalkeeper Diploma, NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma and NSCAA High School Coaches Diploma. Coach Hare is a certified CPR Trainer and Sport Safety Trainer (American Red Cross). For more details, please visit Director’s Bio page.

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CAMP DIRECTOR - WESTMINSTER COLLEGE TITAN SOCCER CAMPS (IN CONJUNCTION WITH HGA CAMPS)

Girish Thakar: Men’s & Women’s Head Soccer Coach at DIII Westminster College (PA) concurrently since 2002 and the men’s team since 1998, Winner of nine-time Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Soccer Champions, four with the men’s and five with the women’s. He led his teams to NCAA Tournament nine times. Thakar was named PAC Coach of the Year five times. Prior to coaching at Westminster, he was the head men’s coach at his alma mater, Slippery Rock University, from 1993-96, after graduating from SRU in 1991 and later earning a master’s degree from the school. As a player at Slippery Rock, he was a four-year starter who earned All-PSAC honors. Thakar holds NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and FA Coaching Badge. BIO

VIDEO on Coach Thakar and the Westminster College Soccer Program.

The members of Westminster College Men’s & Women’s Soccer will serve as camp assistants.

2019 Clinics