MP Duxbury
Director of Competitive Girls Program
Coaching Experience
Southwest United, Premier Youth Teams
Principal Coach, Green and Gold Soccer Academy at Vimy Ridge Academy
Coaching Consultant (all levels of coaches and players)
Staff Coach, St Albert Soccer Association Development Center
Coach, King’s University College Men’s Soccer
Elite Player Development Coach, Alberta Soccer Association
Select Team Program Coach, Alberta Soccer Association
Coaching Clinic Instructor/Staff Coach, Alberta Soccer Association
Coach, NAIT Women’s Soccer (2008 ACAC Coach of the Year)
What do you do when your dream is shattered? You reinvent yourself.
Take MP, for example. Growing up he played for SWU, coached by his father, Les Duxbury. “My father talked to me about the game all the time, and taught me that I had to earn everything the game could give me,” he says. “I had to try out for his teams knowing that I had to be selected by every panel member otherwise I would be cut.”
Mentored by his father and some of the greatest legends in Canadian soccer, including Bert Goldberger and Neil Turnbull (who coached in two FIFA World Cups), MP worked hard, successfully honing his soccer skills and eventually landing a scholarship to play for the UCLA Bruins.
Then he blew out his knee.