John Galas
	Position: Assistant Coach Experience: Third season at FSU Alma Mater: University of Liverpool - MBA 1999 University of Oregon - BA 1997

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A Woodland Hills, Calif. native, assistant coach John Galas enters his third season as the Florida State women’s soccer goalkeeper coach. Galas has spent the past seven years as either a head coach or assistant at all levels of soccer and has extensive experience coaching goalkeepers.

Galas faced one of his biggest challenges since arriving at Florida State in 2001 as he had to coach three talented but young keepers. Under his guidance, Florida State didn’t miss a step in goal. The Seminoles, and their three freshman keepers, went on to record six shutouts and helped the team record the most wins in school history on top of advancing to the ACC Champion-ship finals. After less than three months working with this group, the keepers really started to shine in the postseason. Kerry York and Ali Mims combined to shutout No. 8 Virginia for 150 minutes in the 2002 ACC Championship semifinals before Mims saved three penalty kicks in the shootout to send FSU to the finals. In the NCAA Tournament, the young net minders once again rose to the occasion as Mims and York allowed just one goal in two games as the Seminoles reached the round of 32 for the second consecu-tive season.

The 2000 Seminoles had one of the most successful seasons in the history of the program and Galas’ work with Sarah Crawford was a key factor in FSU’s turnaround. The year before Galas’ arrival at Florida State, Crawford posted a 1.90 GAA which fell 35 percent to 1.23 after just one season. Crawford also saw her shutouts quadruple from 1.5 to 6 and her save percentage go from 77 percent to 82 percent. Crawford was named a SoccerBuzz All-Southeast Region second team selection, an NSCAA All-Southeast Region third team selection and she was the first Seminole to ever be named to the All-ACC Tournament team.

In 1999, Galas served as the director and head coach of the Eugene Goal-keeping Academy. During the summer of 1998, he worked as a goalkeeper coach at Soccer Plus Goalkeeper School in San Diego, Calif., where, in 1999, he served as an assistant director for the school. Soccer Plus was founded and directed by Tony DiCiccio, the head coach of the World Cup Champion USA women’s soccer team.

Galas served as an assistant coach for the University of Oregon women’s soccer team from 1997 to 1999 where he mainly worked with the team’s goalkeep-ers. Galas, during a one-year hiatus from Oregon, also worked with one of England’s premier club teams, Liverpool Football Club in 1998. Galas was afforded access to all of Liverpool’s training sessions and was given a rare opportunity for an American coach to observe how one of the world’s most successful club teams train. Galas also served as a goalkeeping coach for the club’s Community Coaching Scheme. He will return to England next year to take his Football Association Goalkeeping Coaching B License at the Lilleshall National Sports Center. The license allows goalkeeping coaches to coach at the Football League Centers of Excel-lence, Football League Academy, Premier League Academy and at semi-professional and youth levels.

Galas has played an active role in youth soccer throughout his career. Prior to joining the University of Oregon staff, Galas served as an assistant coach/ goalkeeper coach for both the boy’s and girl’s soccer programs at South Eugene High School in Oregon and as an assistant coach for the Willamette District U-23 state team. While coaching at South Eugene, the boy’s team won the state title in 1998 and the girl’s team advanced to the state final one year and the state semifinal another year. For the past two years, Galas has served on the Olympic Development Program (ODP) Region III staff as a goalkeeping coach in Montevallo, Ala working with the U-14 squad. He was also an assistant coach for the ODP in Portland, Ore. working with the U-17 boy’s team in 1997. Prior to his work with the ODP, Galas was a head coach for the South Eugene Soccer Club U-14 boy’s team, a head coach for the U-17 girl’s team and the U-18 boy’s team at Lane County Association F.C. Galas coached the U-15 boy’s team and served as the head coach for the U-18 girl’s team at McKenzie United S.A. He also served as a marketing assistant and operations assistant for the 1999 Women’s World Cup in Portland.

The Oregon graduate is a member of the United States Soccer Federation, National Soccer Coaches Association of America, the Football Association Coaches Association and the Oregon Youth Soccer Coaches Association. Galas currently holds a USSF National “B” Coaching License and completed his NSCAA National Diploma in January of 2001.

Galas received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Oregon in June of 1997. While playing for the University of Liverpool, Galas earned his master’s degree in football industries in Decem-ber of 1999. The University of Liverpool is the only school in the world that offers an MBA focusing on the global aspects of the soccer indus-try. Galas married his wife, the former Anna Brockmeyer, July 31, 1999. n John & Anna Galas

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