Paul DelloStritto

Owner/Director/Clinician

Since 1997

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Coach Paul has been a full-time soccer goalkeeper coach throughout Connecticut since 1997, focusing primarily on long term youth goalkeeper development. Favoring academy style training, his long-term students train consistently from the time they are identified until they leave for college and sometimes beyond, with training relationships lasting up to ten years.  Over two decades, Paul has developed hundreds of training relationships of various commitment levels.  Former long-term big commitment students include: USWNT #1 Alyssa Naeher (Penn State '09), Big East Champion Allie Augur (Georgetown '24), former pro Jami Kranich (Villanova '14), NCAA Div 1 National Champion Nikki Weiss (Notre Dame 2010), NCAA Div 1 All American Jill Mastroianni (Boston College 2009), Div 3 Player of the Year Ursula Alwang (Middlebury '20), and Ivy League Champion Claire Pinciaro (Princeton '13).

 

Through the years, Paul has coached only goalkeepers all over CT in multiple GK sessions every day.  The current Bravo home base is a goalkeeper specific indoor training facility in Woodbridge, CT.  Bravo opened its first GK specific facility in 2010 in Milford, CT called the Keeper Factory.

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Paul was GK Director and Clinician for the Connecticut Football Club (CFC) from 2000-2019.  Also, CT ODP Boys + Girls GK Coach from 2000-2006, and in that time 13 Region 1 and 4 National Pool GKs.  Previously the GK coach for numerous CT Universities, including womens programs at Sacred Heart, Yale, SCSU, Quinnipiac, Post, Fairfield, Hartford, Wesleyan, and Trinity, and mens programs at Wesleyan, Trinity, and New Haven.
 

Originally from Northford, CT, Paul graduated from North Branford High School and Ithaca College, NY with a BA in Speech Communication.  Paul played Indoor Soccer with teams such as the Massachusetts Twisters (NISL, AISL - 2006/7 AISL Champions) out of Springfield, and Connecticut Academica FC (AISL, NPSL) out of Winsted.  Outdoor he spent 19 seasons with Danbury United FC (SASL) (2008+9 Regional Champs and National O-30 Open Cup Semi Finalists, also 2007, 2010 + 2017 Regional Finalists).

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