Press Release:
John Fuller has been named the new Varsity Girls Soccer Coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Virginia. Coach Fuller graduated with a Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University, has an MS in Business Ethics and an MS in Community Leadership from Duquesne University, and an MA in Education from Vermont College. He completed his undergraduate studies at Indiana University. So you know that he is very student athlete oriented! He has coached girls soccer for the past 18 years. Coach Fuller was the Lee JV Coach last season and has also coached for the past ten years as the JV Girls Soccer Coach at the Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac Maryland. Prior coaching experience includes U16 girls for 8 additional years with travel teams in Virginia and Florida where his teams won two regional titles and finished second at the Walt Disney tournament in Orlando. His “day” job is the Chief Diversity Educator for the US Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC and he was the former Director of Diversity for Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a retired US Army Major and former US Marine Corps Sergeant with 26 years of military service. He believes that soccer should be fun while increasing a player’s ability to contribute to the overall team’s competitiveness. He has always had the positive engagement coaching approach that enjoying the game will keep a player’s interest and will allow them to become the best student athlete they can be. Coach Fuller is looking forward to contributing all of his coaching experience to the entire Lee High School Girls Soccer program and beginning his first season as the Varsity Coach at Lee! Coach Fuller says: “Come out and support this team! I have watched many of the returning varsity girls play this past season and, with the addition of some other super players…..well, they are really going to be something special!”