Evan Brosniak is committed to the overall betterment of soccer in American.  He has served as the president of The Soccer Coaches Association of New Jersey since 2010.  Evan has had many accolades in his career.  He is currently a Physical Educator at Southern Regional High School.  Evan Brosniak is currently on the Stockton University staff as an Assistant Coach after spending time coaching at the high school, collegiate and professional levels.

Brosniak is a former Associate head coach at Atlantic City FC, a former Academy Coach with the New York Red Bulls and was the head coach of Southern Regional High School from 2009-15. Coach Brosniak was named Ocean County Coach of the Year in 2009,  rebuilding the program at Southern Regional.  He received Coach of the Year honors in 2009 with an increase of 13 wins in the first season alone.

Brosniak was the head coach of Raritan Valley Community College and rebuilt the program in 2007 and 2008 before taking the helm at Southern. He started his coaching career at Bound Brook High School, serving as head coach for four seasons and assistant for two years. In 2004, Bound Brook won the Central Jersey Group 1 title, the first in school history which was also named 2004 Coach of the Year.

Evan Brosniak currently has multiple coaching professional licenses.  He has the United Soccer Coaches (Formerly NSCAA) Premier License, NSCAA Goalkeeping Diploma, Multiple United Soccer Coaches Diplomas, USSF “E’ license, English FA License, English FA Talent Identifier, holds multiple NFHS Diplomas, & is an American Red Cross CPR, AED, and First Aid Instructor.  He also has a Master of Science degree- MSSoccer Coaching from Ohio University, The highest academic institution for soccer coaching education in the United States, with an emphasis on andragogy, psychology, and team dynamics.

Brosniak played soccer on the collegiate level at Division III Curry College before finishing his playing career at Syracuse University. He led North Brunswick Township High School to a state championship in 1993, and was named to their Hall of Fame in 2003.

After playing soccer for four years at Kearny High School, Michael Rusek received an athletic scholarship in 1991 to Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He finished his bachelor’s degree at Montclair State University and spent four years in the late 1990’s coaching the Kearny High School boys’ freshmen soccer team. In the year 2000, he began his career as a head coach at Harrison High School. Coach Mike Rusek now currently 435 victories, seven State Championships, twelve Sectional Championships, two Hudson County Championships, and eighteen league titles. Harrison High School now holds the national record for most high school state championships overall with 25 total. Since 2000, Harrison HS also has the most state championships in New Jersey with seven total in ten trips to the state finals this century.  In 2014, Coach Rusek won his 300 overall victory with a 4-0 state championship victory. Numerous soccer players at Harrison High School have gone on to play college soccer, all across the state, and even the country. During this time of coaching, Michael has also received a Graduate Degree in Administration/Supervision from St. Peter’s University, and this past June, he finished his twenty fifth year of teaching history at Harrison High School. Michael Rusek has been married for over 12 years to Lisa. They have three beautiful children, a nine year old son, named Christian, a six year year old daughter, named Hailey, and a six month old daughter, named Madelyn.  Below are some accolades Coach Rusek has achieved at Harrison High School:

* Overall Coaching Record (435-63-22)
* (2002) Top season (24-0-1/Ranked the Number One Team in New Jersey)
* Coached 2 NJ – Players of the Year (2004-Cristhian Acuna & 2013-Modou Sowe)
* Coached 1 All-American Player, 7 Regional All-American Players, 10 First Team All- State Players.
* (2014) Most goals scored in one season – 151
* (2008) Fewest goals allowed in one season – 6
* (2002 and 2014) Most wins in one season – 24
* (2013 and 2014) Most shutouts in one season – 19
* State Championships – 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014
* Sectional Championships – 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014,  2016, 2022
* Hudson County Championships – 2009 and 2013 (Hudson County did not allow Harrison & Kearny into their county tournaments until 2009)

Chris have been the varsity soccer coach at South Brunswick High School since the fall of 2003.  Over that time period, South Brunswick has won 6 Division titles, 2 GMC county titles, reached the state tournament 19 times and reached the sectional finals in 2013.  He currently has over 200 career wins during his 20 years in charge.  As a player, Chris played for George Nazario at TCNJ from 1997 – 1999.  In addition, he has been a math teacher at South Brunswick high since 2000.  He currently resides in East Windsor with his wife Elizabeth and daughters Madeline and Josephine.

Coach Jeff Eppright, “Jiffles,” is entertaining his 36th season as the head coach at Haddon Heights High School.  Since he has become the coach of the program he has  8 conference titles, 2 Sectional  Titles in 2010 & 2012.  He also won the Group I New Jersey State Championship in 2012.  He currently has over 400 wins.

Coach Cesar Blacido is a passionate soccer coach that emphasizes the development of people through the means of soccer. Cesar has been coaching youth soccer for 10 years and high school soccer for 7 years. He served 3 years as a JV coach and is currently the varsity soccer coach at Ramsey high school. In addition, he is a PE teacher in the Ramsey School District.

As a varsity coach, Cesar has led his high school team to 3 State Sectional Championship, 2 State Championship appearances and 1 Bergen County tournament championship appearance. In 2020 he was named Bergen County Coach of the Year and in 2021 he was named North 1 State Coach of the Year.

Cesar played soccer at Ramsey high school and club soccer for the New York Red Bulls. He led Ramsey high school to their only state championship in 2007. His senior year while playing at NYRB he was voted a U.S. U-18 Academy top 11 player in the nation. After high school he attended Monmouth University where he played Division 1. During his time at Monmouth, Cesar was a starter all 4 years and the program had a record of 48-15-12. Monmouth was ranked as high as #5 in the country his junior year.

Coach Blacido was just recently married to his beautiful wife Kim and resides in Franklin Lakes.

Coach Mike Mugavaro is presently the current Varsity Boys Soccer Coach with over 20 years of experience at Morris Knolls.  In 2016 & 2018, Coach Mugavaro earned “Coach of the Year,” from Morris County NJAC Conference as well as NJ High School State.  Morris Knolls were also NJAC Champions in 2017.    The following year Morris Knolls won the NJSIAA North I, Group 4 State Championship.

As a player was an All-State player at the school he currently coaches at, Morris Knolls.  After graduating he continued playing at Division I at the University of Massachusetts.  After completion of college he later on to become the Head Coach at Stetson University.  He currently holds a USSF “C” license as well as the NSCAA /United Soccer Coaches National Diploma.    Coach Mugavaro has coach multiple players who have gone onto the next level and a United Soccer Coaches High School All-American and New Jersey Player of the Year in 2017 & 2018.

Coach Evan Weller is the current Phillipsburg High School Varsity Boys Soccer Coach and has been since 2003.  Coach Weller is the winningest Phillipsburg soccer coach in School History in both wins & highest winning percentage.

Since taking over at Phillipsburg he has done the following; led team to four consecutive State Tournament Appearances, First ever NJSIAA regional semifinalists, First ever H/W/S finalists, First ever division championship (’13), First ever NJSIAA tournament win, First ever to defeat NJ Ranked opponents (#5, #12, #15), Fewest goals allowed in school history ’10, Most wins and most goals scored in school history ’13, and Most collegiate players developed.

Coach Weller has been named Express Times Coach of the Year and the Star Ledger West Jersey Coach of the Year in 2013.

Steven MacKenzie is entering his 25 th year as the Head Mens Soccer Coach at Monroe Township High School.  During his tenure he has amassed 351 wins, 4 twenty-win seasons enroute to 7 conference championships, 2sectional championships, an appearance in the Group IV State Final in 2012, as well as participating in multiple other conference and sectional finals. Coach MacKenzie led the first undefeated team in school history in 2020,
finishing the season 14-0-1 and a 3-2 OT win over Elizabeth in the sectional final.

Coach Steve MacKenzie is a 5-time conference coach of the year, 4-time Central Jersey Sectional Coach of the Year, 2014 NJ State Coach of the Year as well as National Coach of the Year nominee.  Coach MacKenzie has extensive camp and club experience at all levels of youth soccer.  He has guided many teams to the top of the state rankings and most recently led the Jersey Knights U-20M team to the Super-20’s national championships in 2015.  As a graduate of the University of New Haven, Coach MacKenzie was a four-year scholarship athlete, whom scored a goal in his first college game. Prior to his time in college, Coach MacKenzie lettered in Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball at Metuchen High School, earning All-State honors in soccer. He has received an Advanced National License from the USC (NSCAA) and is also licensed by the USSF.

Coach Chase Barberi took over the program in 2012.  Coach Barberi has rebuilt the Vorhees program in the Skyland Conference.

Barberi is a former Division one player from Monmouth University.  He was a college standout who was on the Herman Award watch list in both his junior and senior year.  He also played for PDA which is one of the most deep rooted clubs in the state of New Jersey.  Barberi is also a former standout at Hillsborough High School.

The 2023 season marks Eric Puma’s 28th year at HHS where he began his coaching and teaching career in 1996. After six seasons of serving as varsity assistant, in 2002 Coach Puma became the third head coach of the Raider Boys Soccer program. Since that time, the Raiders have been Skyland Conference Champions in 2002, 2003, 2008, 2018, and 2019 as well as Somerset County Champions in 2006, 2012 and 2018.

Coach Puma holds the USSF National “A” license, the United Soccer Coaches Premier Diploma, USC Director of Coaching Certification and USC Coach Developer Certification. Earning his Bachelor’s In English from Trenton State College in 1994 and his Masters of Arts in Teaching from the College Of New Jersey in 1996, Coach Puma teaches AP Language & Composition at Hillsborough High School. He and his wife, Alysia, who is also an English teacher at the high school, live in Flemington, New Jersey.

Eric Shaw is entering his 11th year at the helm of WHS Boys Soccer program with a record of 122W-43L-18T.  Eric has guided the Blue Devils to 5 Union County Champions in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022 and the Section 2 Group 4 title in 2022.  Eric is a graduate of Seton Hall University where he was a 4-year starter from 93-96.  Eric continued his playing career with the NJ Imperials semi-pro team from 97-00.  He started his coaching career at SHU as assistant/goalkeeper coach in 97.  Eric then coached at his Alma Mater, Union High School with the boys program from 98-04, then moved to St. Benedicts prep from 04-05  Eric then moved back to UHS to be the head coach of the girls program from 06-12.  Eric played his youth soccer for the Union Lancers who were state cups champs from 88-93.  Eric is entering his 22nd year as an Elementary Health and Physical Education Teaching in Union and resides in Cranford with his wife Ana, son and 2 daughters.