Clay Roberts is the head coach of the

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team based in

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as well as the

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. Roberts has also served as Director of Soccer at

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, and director of coaching at Brandon FC. As a player, Roberts attended

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. Professionally, he played for the

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and the

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, where he was a part of their 2007 MISL championship. As a coach and administrator, Roberts has been the vice president of the

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in the PDL, the director of VSI, director of Brandon FC, both women's and men's head coach at

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(now Cairn University), the

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of the WPSL, and an assistant at

Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) is a private Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida. The university's nine colleges focus on the liberal arts with a select collection of professional studies. In 2019, its undergraduate enrollme ...

. In his first year at Southeastern University, Roberts was named the

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2015 soccer coach of the year as the team won the school's first-ever conference championship. Roberts again won the

Coach of the Year award in 2019. Just months later, Roberts was also honored as Coach of the Year for the

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, having led the Florida Tropics to their first winning record and an Eastern Conference Championship with an 18-3 record. Clay's brother,

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, is also a coach, most recently with the

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References

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