After 26 years of coaching, nine of which were spent as a head coach, and over 100 game wins,  David McCarter is leaving the boys’ soccer program. 

McCarter made the decision to leave his head coaching position with the boys’ program and go over to the girls’ program as an assistant coach.

As his daughter will be in high school playing soccer, McCarter said this was a very easy decision. 

“My biggest thing was I wanted to watch my daughter play as a ninth grader coming up,” McCarter said.

He still will be in the coaching field, but it is going to look different.

“Usually in head coaching, there is way more paperwork, organization, planning and responsibility outside of the actual soccer X’s and O’s. Now I can go back and just be a soccer coach,” McCarter said.

McCarter’s assistant coach, Travis Young, will be taking over the role of head coach.

“Coach Young is going to do things differently for sure,” McCarter said. “He is going to put his own mark. He is going to do what he thinks is best for the program, and I am super excited for him, for them.” 

As the coach changes, the team and training will be changing too. 

“It is definitely going to be more intensive practice,” freshman Diego Gil said. 

A big difference between Young and McCarter are the ways they run practice.

“It is going to be way less scrimmaging which will not be as fun, but it definitely will, I think, prepare me more for the more technical aspects of soccer,” Gil said.

With new aspects of training, junior Jace Black believes technical skills will improve all around.

“[ I ] think skill wise, [ we ] would be better because that’s what our new coach really focuses on the really, really technical and tactical parts of it,” Black said. 

“I really liked McCarters vibes,” junior Braxton Eckenrode said. “ He’s an overall awesome guy to be around.”