Soccer – any time, any way

This is an unusual year for Coach Regina McGee who became the coach for Armijo’s Girls’ Varsity Soccer team last year. She has also coached for the Vacaville Youth Soccer League, the University of the Pacific College Camp and, as a volunteer coach at Vanden High School.

“I became a coach because  I like to help people bring out their best talents,” said Coach McGee.

Soccer has been her passion for a very long time. She’s been playing ever since she was eight years old.

“I played all through middle school, high school Varsity, six years with the Trinidad and Tobago Senior Women’s National Soccer Team and four years of college in an NCAA Division 1 program,” she said.

She has also coached boys’ teams. “The biggest difference in coaching boys and girls is style preference,” she said. “The boys I coached tend to have preferred that instructions be repeated to them more, and so far for girls, less is more,.” she said.

After all that, she is happy to be able to still be involved with soccer and to help and teach her team.

Coaching isn’t her entire life. “I come from a huge family: two brothers and two sisters,” Coach Williams said. She is also a dog lover and loves to go outdoors every chance she gets with her two dogs.

Before becoming a coach, she used to work for the state of California in Human Resources.