STAR SC Director of Coaching receives Distinguished Merit Award
The 2006 recipient of the
OCSOA Coaches Distinguished Merit Award is Wil Cagle, head women’s
soccer coach at Cincinnati State.
This award represents the highest honor presented by the OCSOA to a
college soccer coach. It symbolizes excellence in sport as measured by
character and game behavior. This award honors the coach who
demonstrates the ideals of sportsmanship, fair play and civility as
defined in the NCSAA Code of Ethics. Further, it recognizes the coach
who holds their coaching staff and members of their team responsible for
the same high standards of fair play.
Coach Cagle began his coaching adventure at
age 16 when he was recruited to help with his youngest brother’s newly
formed SAY team. In the last 27 years he has held coaching positions
at nearly every level in the US soccer.
Coach Cagle’s soccer experience includes a
stop as Varsity Boy's Soccer Coach at
Taylor High School
where he was twice named a Southwest Ohio All-Star coach, and Conference
Coach of the Year. In 1996, Coach Cagle began
the Men's Soccer program at Cincinnati State. In 1999, he started the
Women's Soccer program at the same institution. At the helm of the
women’s program, he was named Conference Coach
of the Year twice, and Region XXII Coach of the Year. In addition to
his duties at Cincinnati State, Coach Cagle was named assistant coach of
the Cincinnati Ladyhawks in 1999, and in 2003,
took over as owner and Head Coach. Later that year,
Coach Cagle and the Ladyhawks won the USASA U23 National
Championship, for which he was named the Ohio and Midwest Coach of the
Year. In 2007, he bacame Director of Coaching for STAR Soccer Club
in Cincinnati.
But
perhaps the greatest indicator that Coach Cagle has succeeded as a
mentor is the number of student-athletes, more than 30 who have
continued their playing careers at the college level as well as the
number of former players who are now coaches themselves – also over 30.
