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Lady Raccoons Varsity Head Coach
Jaime Leraas
 Coach Leraas attended JJ Pearce High School where she played high
school soccer and basketball. She attended the University of Texas at Austin
as a scholarship player and majored in kinesiology and minored in education
and psychology. She was also a Youth Div. 1 club player with the D'Feeters
'76 for 7 years. She coaches the Andromeda '85 Girls club team 2000-present
as well as the Frisco High School Girls Varsity Soccer team
2000-present. She previously was assistant coach at Plano West High School
for the Girl's Varsity Soccer Team who were Class 5A Girls Soccer State
Champions.
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Raccoon's Varsity Head
Coach Dollinger
New Frisco boys
soccer coach enticed by city's many drawing cards
New boys soccer
coach is enticed by city's many drawing cards
01:23 AM CDT on
Friday, July 2, 2004
By DAVID HINOJOSA /
The Dallas Morning News
Only the ideal job could pull
Daniel Dollinger from his strong McKinney roots. That chance
came last week, when he accepted the boys soccer head
coaching job at Frisco High School.
"I didn't really want to
leave McKinney," said Dollinger, 28. "But the right
opportunity came up, and I felt like it was time to go."
Dollinger said Frisco's
rapid population growth was a huge draw. Also, he said
Frisco is establishing itself as the center of soccer in
North Texas.
The Frisco Soccer and
Entertainment Center, which will have a 20,000-seat stadium
that will serve as the Burn's home field, is set to open
next spring. And on Tuesday, the U.S. Youth Soccer
Association announced it is moving its corporate
headquarters to Frisco.
"Frisco's such a growing
area," Dollinger said. "It's going to be a hotbed for
soccer."
Dollinger replaces Bobby Ramos,
who resigned after one season, and inherits a team that went
9-12-2.
Dollinger was McKinney's boys
junior varsity coach for the last four seasons. He also
assisted McKinney boys varsity coach Alan Pocock during that
time.
Dollinger, a 1994 McKinney
graduate, assisted at Stillwater (Okla.) High for three
years while attending Oklahoma State and was a volunteer
assistant at McKinney in 2000, when the Lions advanced to
the Class 5A regional final.
Pocock, who also coached
Dollinger for three seasons at McKinney, and Andromeda's
Oscar Borgarello recommended Dollinger for the position.
"I'm real pumped for him,"
Pocock said. "He's deserved a shot like this the last four
years. He has a lot of character and integrity. It's been
real exciting to see him grow as a coach."
Pocock and Dollinger will
become district rivals with Frisco and McKinney now aligned
in 6-4A.
Dollinger began thinking of
pursuing coaching during his senior year in high school. He
was unable to play that season after breaking both shins in
a collision during a club game.
"Alan did a great job of
showing me everything that goes into coaching," Dollinger
said.
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