BYU soccer tools supervisor Billy Nixon is pictured throughout a media day. BYU’s soccer program introduced quite a few helps employees adjustments on Monday. Nate Edwards
BYU’s soccer program took one other step towards being prepared to hitch the Huge 12 Convention on Monday, creating extra positions on its soccer assist employees and selling three present employees members to new roles.
And there could possibly be extra, head coach Kalani Sitake mentioned on BYUtv’s “BYU Sports activities Nation” tv present Monday morning.
“It's what everyone else is doing,” Sitake mentioned. “The principle factor is to provide our gamers the very best expertise we presumably may give them. … I'm wanting ahead to creating extra hires.”
Heading into his seventh season on the helm, Sitake didn't elaborate on what roles these hoped-for new hires may have. When the coach signed a brand new and “unprecedented” contract final fall, he and BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe mentioned assistant coaches would obtain raises and extra individuals could be added to the assist employees.
“I respect Tom Holmoe, President (Kevin) Worthen and the administration for his or her continued assist in strengthening our program as we put together for the upcoming 2022 season and future membership within the Huge 12 Convention.” — BYU soccer coach Kalani Sitake
Monday’s announcement fulfills that promise, Sitake mentioned.
“I respect Tom Holmoe, President (Kevin) Worthen and the administration for his or her continued assist in strengthening our program as we put together for the upcoming 2022 season and future membership within the Huge 12 Convention,” Sitake mentioned in a college information launch. “The main target of our program will all the time be the event and assist of the good younger males on our group via our tradition of affection and studying.
“Our assist employees performs a vital position in serving to our gamers and our coaches proceed to develop, obtain and achieve success, on and off the sphere. I'm excited in regards to the abilities and passions every of those people will contribute to BYU soccer in these roles, and I’m assured they'll have an effect within the lives of the younger males in our program,” Sitake continued.
Jon Swift, who has been Sitake’s director of soccer operations the previous 4 seasons, is the newly appointed chief of employees.
Billy Nixon, who has been director of participant expertise and tools operations, will succeed Swift as director of soccer operations.
Jack Damuni, who has been the on-campus recruiting and group/participant relations coordinator, is the brand new director of soccer relations.
Sitake additionally introduced the additions of Justin Anderson as director of participant personnel, Mike Corridor as director of participant growth, Brandon Bradley as director of campus expertise and Josh Hewitt because the director of apparatus operations for soccer.
In the meantime, Dan Wilcox, who has been offering vitamin companies for the group, has been employed because the director of soccer sports activities efficiency vitamin.
Anderson performed receiver for BYU from 2000 to 2002, whereas Bradley was a defensive again for the Cougars from 2007 to 2010. Corridor starred for BYU’s males’s basketball group as a capturing guard from 2003 to 2005.
Anderson was Virginia’s director of participant personnel the previous six seasons and had been employed for a similar place at East Carolina earlier than accepting the place with BYU.
Bradley has most not too long ago been a tutorial adviser within the BYU Pupil-Athlete Life and Studying Heart and the BYU extramural sports activities program supervisor.
Corridor joins the soccer employees with 17 years of mixed expertise as knowledgeable athlete and an administrator in each athletics and on the college, together with working within the BYU Pupil Life Division as an honor code administrator, BYU Pupil-Athlete Life and Studying Heart as a tutorial adviser, and with the BYU males’s basketball program because the director of operations.
Hewitt has eight years of expertise in tools operations at UNLV, Fresno State and Central Arkansas. Wilcox has been offering nutritionist companies to the BYU soccer program and different BYU groups as a part of Elite Vitamin & Health Teaching, which he began in 2012.