Jamie Duffy

Jamie Duffy is a former Irish professional soccer player with over 200 playing appearances. Before moving Stateside, he was Head of the Coaching Academy for the biggest club in Ireland, the Shamrock Rovers. Jamie also served as Head of the Academy for Crumlin United (the club made famous for producing Robbie Keane). Coach Jamie is currently the JV Head Coach at Palisades High School. He has extensive experience in coaching and has an impressive way of getting the most out of young soccer players in practice. He is sure to be a hit with every group he works with! - although, it may be due to his funny Irish accent

Christian Chambers

Originally from England, Christian Chambers has a Sport and Exercise Science degree, a Masters Degree in Education (11-18 year olds), a UEFA B coaching license and holds coaching badges in 6 different sports. Christian was a mainstay of Coast Sports’ youth program between 2001 and 2017, supervising its popular summer soccer camps. For FC Los Angeles, he took the B94 Black team from U12 Bronze to U17 Premier with a record of 146-60-25. From this team, 11 players went on to play college soccer at schools such as Radford University, Washington U St Louis, Claremont McKenna, NYU, Emerson, UCSD and UCSB. His G95 Red squad rose from U12 Bronze to U16 Gold with a record of 113-44-27. In his final year at FCLA, his B96 White team went undefeated to win the SCDSL U17B Flight II division. Now at Santa Monica Surf, his B02 Blue team won the Legends Classic, NHB Cup, Vegas College Showcase and, most recently, CalSouth 2018 State Cup. This past year his G05 team went unbeaten in league play and got promoted to Premier for the upcoming season.

Christian has coached the Brentwood Middle School Girls team and has previously coached the Boys team at Paul Revere Middle School. He is currently the Head Coach of the Girls Soccer Program at Palisades Charter High School where he led them to the 2018 and 2020 CIF D1 Finals and into the CIF Regionals for the first time in the school's history.

Gary Truman

Coach Gary represented School, League, and Merseyside FA while being asked to tryout at LFC & TRFC between 1974 to 1979. After arriving in the US in 1987 he played for a number of top So Cal Teams including Exiles FC, Riptide SC, Hollywood Utd FC, and Fram SC before turning to coaching, gaining his National Coaching badge through AYSO and So Cal E License between 2005 to 2015

Gary has coached at every youth level starting from U6 through U17 at both the Westside Breakers FC and LA Breakers FC also becoming Palisades HS Girls Asst Varsity Coach in 2015 moving to Marymount HS as Head JV Coach 2019 and will be starting in August 2021 will become St Bernard HS Head Coach of the Girls Soccer Program and holds all required certifications to coach in CIF & SCDSL.