2009 Coach Profile - Ohlone Renegades Men's Soccer
Bio: Jan Eric Nordmo, Head Coach
Coach Jan Eric Nordmo takes the team as head coach of the Ohlone College Men’s Soccer team in March 2009. Jan Eric was previously the first assistant coach at Ohlone (2008). Coach Nordmo has a wealth of experience at all levels from youth to collegiate, amateur and semi-professional. His coaching credentials include the United States Soccer Federation “A” License for over 10 years, the highest achieved coaching credentials in the US. He also has Coaching Certificates from the KNVB (Royal Dutch Soccer Association). In addition to being a licensed coach he is also a licensed official and serves the states of California (CYSA) as a coaching instructor in the CYSA Coaching School.
Jan Eric’s professional background is also soccer related as businesses that he owns including Off the Wall Soccer, Arena Soccer Centers, Inc., Off the Wall Soccer, Chico Sports Arena LLC and the Premier Arena Soccer League, Back of the Net, Inc. He has acted as a consultant to several amateur and professional soccer clubs and on arena soccer projects. And he has served as an instructor for USIndoor’s Certified Arena Operator and Director of Coaching for Los Gatos United Soccer League.
Coach Nordmo has been coaching professionally for near 25 years. Current positions include; Head Coach at Los Gatos High School Varsity Girls Program, Head Coach at Alpine FC, Head Coach of the State Olympic Development Program (ODP), Region IV ODP Staff Coach and Clinician for the CYSA and SASC. Success from Nordmo’s team coaching not only included league and district titles, state cup semi-finalist, CCS finalists, but he also as a player he has achieved success playing as both a youth and adult on league and district champion teams, state cup finalists, regional champions, lettering in high school soccer four times, and as a player / coach US Open Cup regional champions and still plays in the over 35 leagues. He has coached locally and in Seattle, Washington, he and his teams have participated in both national and internationally events in Mexico, Canada, the UK and Holland.
He is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA), US Soccer CoachesNet, and the Rotary Club of Santa Clara. (Jan Eric is the club president of his Rotary Club from 2009-’10.)
Coaching at High Schools such as Pinewood, Los Altos and Los Gatos as well as UC Santa Cruz and LGUFC and other programs he has worked with top level athletes as well as beginning players, some of his most successful teams have not only achieved on the field but also in the classroom; recently his Los Gatos team won the Academic Achievement Award presented by the NSCAA. Several of his past players have gone on to play at upper division colleges, regional, national and professional teams. Nordmo is always involved in soccer, from coaching, teaching, learning, sharing and volunteer work, soccer is always somewhere involved.
Jan Eric Nordmo is a graduate of Wilcox HS in Santa Clara, California and the University of Washington in Seattle. He is married (Nicola) with one little boy (Eric) and lives with his family in Los Gatos.
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