YORK, Pa. — Identifying soccer players with strong leadership qualities and encouraging them to lead rather than follow is a strategy Soji Otuyelo, head soccer coach at Penn State York, hopes will help his team to be successful. The Penn State York soccer team takes to the field at home in a nonconference game at noon Saturday, Sept 10, against Lehigh Carbon Community College.
The soccer field is located next to the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center and behind and Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center on campus. The game is free and open to the public.
Otuyelu, who was named head soccer coach in April 2020, hopes his players will understand his specific goals for them and then move forward.
“I have to trust, encourage and motivate them to reach their goals however they are able. I don't have to dictate every aspect of how they reach their goals,” he said.
Over the last 10 months, Otuyelo has redefined his expectations around accomplishing goals. In the past, he shared that he has been too focused on the win-loss records as the marker for success.