The Oakland FC Dragons have announced the addition of new soccer coaches: Matt Paukovits and Jason Collinsworth.
Paukovits has joined the Oakland FC Dragons from the Vardar soccer club. He coached 11 years with Vardar with two Michigan State Cup championships and two USYSA Region 2 finals appearances.
He served as an assistant coach at the University of Detroit Mercy for five years, and while coaching there, made one NCAA tournament appearance. Paukovits joins the OFC Dragons as director of coaching and team coach for the Dragons 97 boys.
Paukovits has lived in Lake Orion since 1997, and currently is the LOHS freshman boys soccer coach. He holds a National Advanced Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Athletic Association.
Jason Collinsworth joins the FC Dragons soccer program as a team trainer/coach and club goalie coache. He is a 2003 LOHS graduate, and played LOHS soccer.
He has been assistant coach at LOHS for the past two years, working with goalies and coaching both girls and boys freshman teams.
Collinsworth completed both the MSYSA ‘E? and ‘D? state license courses.