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	Coaching Staff Our teams work with the finest coaches, trainers, and inviduals who understand the need to build on fundamentals while delivering solid tactical and strategic insight. Many of our coaches and trainers are nationally licensed. Some have played at the highest level in Europe and in college. We are home to the 2003 Florida Youth Soccer Association Girls Coach of the Year, Marek Betkowski, a full-time professional coach who has played professionally in his native Poland, has a masters degree in Physical Education with an emphasis on soccer and has coached youth teams at the select and high school level for over 18 years Our coaching staff is comprised of coaches and trainers possessing the skills and experience necessary to tap the potential of your soccer player. Marek Betkowski A native of Poland, Coach Marek brings 19 years of coaching experience in Poland and the USA. He earned a Master of Physical Education with Soccer Specialty Degree. He holds USSF B and C licenses, as well as a Florida State D license. Since 1986 he has coached both girls and boys U10 to U19 Select teams in Poland and, since 1996, for Bay United Soccer Club in Panama City. As a coach with Bay United Soccer Club, his teams have won 91 tournament championships and 51 second place titles. His teams have won the Florida President's Cup 4 times 2003, 2004, 2007, & 2008, won the Region III Directors Cup in 2004 and finished in final four in 2007 and 2008,and finished 3rd in National Directors Cup in 2004 . Since 1998, Coach Marek has led the Mosley High School Varsity Team to 10 consecutive County Championships.
	Dan Nix Dan has been the girls J.V. soccer coach for Mosley High School for the 2007-08 season. The J.V. team had a record of 14-0 in the regular season and earned the title of County and District champions for the J.V. program. He coached with the Bay County Youth Soccer Association for ten years and 5 of his teams have won championships and several have earned runner up medals. Dan coached middle school soccer from 2003 through 2006 at Covenant Christian School. He is a certified referee and has served on the Bay County Youth Soccer Association Board. Dan graduated from Troy State University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Accounting. Dan works at Florida State University Panama City as the Director of Finance and Administration and has two daughters in the club on the U11 and U16 teams. Juan Goicoechea Born in Ataun,Guipuzcoa, Spain, Coach Juan was instrumental as a co-founder of what was originally the Panama City Lady Sharks and which later became Bay United Soccer Club. Coach Juan holds a USSF "C" National license.He has coached soccer since 1990 beginning with Bay Girls Soccer, then BSI and later Bay United.Coach Juan also was the Mosley Girls JV assistant coach during the 1994-1996 seasons. Juan has beenmarried to wife Tessie for 32 years and has three children Jon (deceased), Maite Mahoney and Miren Gregory. Maite Mahoney Coach Maite is a former Bay United Lady Shark who used the skills and knowledge that she obtained from the club to move on an play college soccer. Maite played three years for Troy State University, breaking numerous records during her time there. Maite has been coaching Bay United teams for the past six years and many of her teams have won championship and finalist awards. She also was the Mosley Girls JV coach from 1994-1996. Maite is currently a student at FSU/PC pursuing her degree in History and is married husband Terry Mahoney. Gary Hindley Coach Gary Hindley, joins the Bay United coaching staff, after five very successful years as the Director of Coaching for the Knoxville Football Club, in Knoxville, TN. During that period, he took KFC from 4 teams and 60 players, to 59 teams and over 600 players, They also won 14 TN State Championships during that period. Before that stint, he played and coached at the professional level in both the US and Canada for 23 seasons. Gary holds a USSF "B" license and currently serves on the FL Youth Soccer Assn State coaching staff, with both the ODP and Coaching School programs. He has on 5 different occasions, been honored as a pro and college level Coach of the Year selectee and is currently, the third winningest American- born coach in the US professional ranks. In his first season with BUSC, he will initiate the Clubs new ACADEMY training program ( for 5-9 years olds) and serve as the Club's Goalkeeper instructor, the position he played both collegiately and professionally.
	Brian Bullock Brian Bullock received his bachelor's degree in social science education from Florida State University in 2002 and his master's degree in educational leadership in 2006. He is currently employed at Mowat Middle School where he coaches the boys and girls soccer teams in addition to the boys and girls tennis teams. His boys soccer team has dominated Bay County middle school soccer by going undefeated for four consecutive seasons, each of those years winning the title of County Champions. His girls soccer team has been equally successful, winning three County Championships in four seasons with only one loss in those four years.