Owen Flannery Director of Coaching

Owen Flannery grew up in San Francisco and played many different sports as a kid. He says he was not a great soccer player until the age of 14. Soccer then became his main sport, and he put in a lot of hard work to become a stronger player. Owen is a firm believer that hard work extends beyond athleticism. An athletic U8 soccer player tends to be a star in the younger age groups. Hard work and continued practice, however, is what makes a player better over time. Owen has seen that continued hard work pays off by about the U12/U13 age when some hard-working players surpass the skill level of a player who primarily relied upon athleticism.

Playing experience

As a youth soccer player, Owen played for the Vikings Soccer Club in San Francisco. He was selected numerous times to play on the CalNorth ODP team and was recruited to play at San Jose Sate University. Owen won the “Athlete of the Year” award both his junior and senior years at Drew High School in San Francisco. Owen played both forward and defender growing up and in college. In his senior year, the SJSU Spartans went undefeated and were ranked #1 in the country by the NCAA.