Richard first started coaching girls HS while playing soccer at Coe College, a D3 school in Iowa. After 3 seasons as a Head coach for girls soccer at Jefferson HS, and 5 seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, he and his wife moved to MN. He spent 1 season with St Mary’s University’s women’s team under a great coach, Neil Cassdy, before going to the Univeristy of Northwestern and coaching the men’s program as a graduate assistant, while earning his MBA. Richard holds his F license for USSF and a National Diploma through United Soccer Coaches. He lives in Hutchinson with his beautiful wife, Nina, and their 5 daughters, Annie, Ellie, Maggie, Clara & Vivienne. He also is the head coach for the local HS co-op team between Hutchinson and Glencoe Silver Lake.