Coach Tavani is in his ninth year of coaching at both the high school and club levels. He is a Georgia Youth Soccer Association Coach of the Year and holds the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) National “A” Coaching License, the highest license a coach can attain in the U.S. In the summer of 2005 he earned the USSF National Youth License.

2009 will be Coach Tavani's eighth year as head coach at Duluth High School. The 2006 season was possibly Coach Tavani's best as a coach at the high school level. He led the Wildcats to the AAAAA Final Four after not even being projected to reach the playoffs. They finished the season at 15-4-2 and topped the state's #1 team Chattahoochee and the defending state champs, Parkview.

Coach Tavani also guided the Wildcats to back-to-back Georgia Final Four finishes in 2002 and 2003, while advancing to the school's first ever State championship game in 2003. Coach Tavani's Duluth team finished 2003 as the #2 team in Georgia and the #18 team in the nation, their highest ranking ever. His 2002 team was ranked #3 in Georgia and Top 50 nationally. In 2004, the team was ranked as high as #2 in the U.S. Duluth’s five-year overall record under Coach Tavani stands at 68-27-6. His overall high school coaching record includes 84 wins.

Coach Tavani was selected to coach in the Georgia Soccer Coaches Association All Star Game in 2002, 2003, and 2006. He was also selected AAAAA Coach of the Month in May 2003. Prior to Duluth, Coach Tavani spent three years as head boys coach at Redan High School in Stone Mountain, GA , where he guided the team to the state playoffs in 2001 for the first time since 1996. He has also served as a Georgia Olympic Development Program (ODP) Assistant Coach and tryout evaluator.

Coach Tavani annually produces top high school players who go on to earn college scholarships while also developing several players who have become All-County and All-State. Many of his former players who serve as coaches at the camp are currently playing college soccer, including the past two Gwinnett County Players of the Year (2003, 2004). He is also the Atlanta Fire United Soccer Association U-11 Boys Academy Coordinator, where he coaches the top three teams.

Prior to his coaching career, Coach Tavani was a four-year letterman at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL, where he helped lead the Saints to NAIA national rankings in 1995 and 1996 and Florida Sun Conference Championships in 1994 and 1996. He graduated from Flagler College in 1998 with a BA in Education, and more recently, earned a Master's of Science in Education from Walden University. Coach Tavani grew up in the Atlanta area, and was an All-State player at Dunwoody High School in 1994. He currently resides in Alpharetta with his wife, Tracy, and their daughter Emily.

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Coach Vince Hayes

EXPERIENCE

DULUTH HIGH SCHOOL
Head Coach JV Men/Varsity Assistant Coach 2000-06

FORSYTH FUSION
Girls Academy Coach - 4 years

Earned USSF National D license
National Youth License

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
BA - Education, 2001
Masters - Social Science Education, 2006

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Coach Scott Luther

coming soon

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