The Coach of the Year is Luis Gendive, Luis Gendive is one the club’s few professional coaches, whose commitment to player development is unsurpassed by others in the club. Luis made the decision to move from Spain to the United States to coach soccer. His search for coaching positions landed him in Arlington and he has coached four different teams since arriving six years ago. He has organized summer, weeklong, local camps for the past four years to provide high quality instruction at a low cost to the players. Luis coached a C-team where he regularly moved nearly half his team each year up to higher-level teams. He took an A-team languishing in Division 4 and coached them into Division 1 in five seasons, where they have remained. He took a player who was undecided about playing travel soccer and trained him so well, that the player is now on the U16 national team player pool, one of the few Arlington players with that distinction. He has volunteered for the Club by assisting in the ATSC development clinics and working with players at Sweaty Soccer.