We're very fortunate to be adding several new faces to an already strong Hanover coaching staff for the fall. All three of our subvarsity Head Coaches are back: Mike Callanan returns for his 10th year as JV Coach, after a season that saw his Marauders win the Division One JV Championship, and which saw him honored as Division One JV Coach of the Year. Rob Edson will be in his third season as Freshman Coach, and Willie Johnson returns for a second year as Reserve Coach.
In addition to the above three mentors Hanover is fortunate to welcome three assistant coaches, all with Upper Valley roots. Erik McEwen, an Hanover High graduate and current member of the HHS staff, will be an assistant for all three subvarsity teams after a successful summer helping with the Touchline Soccer Club. Tommy Clark and Ben Snyder will both be assistants with the Varsity.
Dr. Tommy Clark needs little introduction to the Upper Valley soccer community. He moved to Hanover as a sophomore, when his father, Bobby Clark, began his successful career as Dartmouth's Head Coach of men's soccer. Tommy was Captain of the Hanover team that went 16-1-1 and won the Class I Championship in 1987. TC was an All-American, and moved across the street to Dartmouth to play for his father. He was a member of several Big Green teams to win the Ivy League title and participate in NCAA competition, and was an All-New England selection in 1991, the year he was Dartmouth's Captain. After a year playing professional soccer for the Bulawayo Highlanders in Zimbabwe, Tommy returned to Hanover to attend Dartmouth Medical School, graduating in 2001.
After his graduation, he founded Grassroot Soccer, which in the intervening years has grown into a hugely successful and influential force in the worldwide effort to prevent HIV/AIDS. As the current CEO of Grassroot, he supervises a far-flung army of staff members and volunteers, working in several African countries to raise awareness of the needs for AIDs testing and education. Tommy remains one of the Upper Valley's best soccer players. Having played for semipro teams in New Mexico and Vermont (the Voltage), he continues to train hard and demand the best from everyone he plays with. He'll be joining Marauder workouts as his schedule permits, and is eager to help push every player to reach his potential.
Ben Snyder will also be assisting with the boys varsity team this fall. Ben is the Head of Upper School at Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, MA and is on sabbatical for the 2014/15 school year. During his playing career Ben played at Bowdoin College and has coached continuously since his playing days concluded. Ben has been the varsity boys (16 years) and girls (3 years) soccer coach at Nobles during the course of his twenty five year tenure at Nobles. During his coaching career Nobles won five Independent School League and five New England Prep Championships, had a fifteen year run of postseason play and accumulated over 200 wins and a winning percentage of over .800. Ben was the 1999 National Soccer Coaches Association's New England Coach of the Year and was recently inducted into the Nobles Athletics Hall of Fame along with his 2002 New England Championship team. Nobles soccer teams have won numerous NSCAA Academic Team Awards and close to one hundred former players for Coach Snyder have played at every Ivy League university and NESCAC college as well as Duke, Stanford, Boston College, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Washington University, University of Chicago and University of Virginia. Coach Snyder also has sent four players to play in MLS and Europe and had multiple players participating in state, regional and national level programs.
At Nobles, Ben has overseen all aspects of the Nobles academic, afternoon and extracurricular high school programs for twenty years, taught history, coached hockey, advised students and has taken over 200 students on service, cycling and academic trips to Vietnam, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Africa and New Orleans. Prior to Nobles Ben was a college admissions director, consultant for a small software and consulting firm and development director for another independent school. Ben's wife Sarah Dickenson Snyder is a long time English teacher at Nobles (also on sabbatical and former director of three middle schools) whose family has been in and around the Upper Valley for over fifty years. Ben and Sarah's daughter Abby played soccer at Bowdoin and is currently teaching middle school English in inner city New Orleans. Their son David graduated from Hamilton College and is teaching math in Denver, Colorado.
As you can see, there is no shortage of coaching talent on hand for the Marauders this fall (and we actually have several others who will also be assisting).
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