Fields Brown joins the RYSA coaching staff from Wofford College after four seasons on the Terrier sidelines as an assistant coach.
Under his watch, Wofford reached the Southern Conference Tournament in two of the three seasons and has faced ACC opponents Clemson, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina State.
In 2006, Brown was instrumental in working with the Terrier defense which set a school record with a 1.03 goals-against average. The team allowed only 19 goals in 17 games and posted four shutouts during the campaign.
A native of Fuquay-Varina, N.C., Brown graduated in May 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in history from UNC Wilmington. He played club soccer for the Seahawks. In 2001, he played collegiately at Pfeiffer University before transferring to UNCW. As a freshman with the Falcons, the team posted eight victories and finished fourth in the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference.
During the spring of 2003 and 2004, he coached challenge and competitive level club soccer teams in the Cape Fear Soccer Association. Brown worked his seventh-consecutive North Carolina women’s soccer camp this past summer. He has also worked camps in South Carolina, Texas and Georgia.
Brown has served as a coach for the Carolina FC U10, U14, and U16 teams based in Spartanburg, S.C., during the spring each of the last three years. He acquired his National Coaching License in 2007 from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and will pursue his Advanced National Diploma this summer
Brown will completed his graduate school education by receiving his master’s of arts in teaching in December 2008 from Converse College.
Director of Coaching, Rafe Mauran says, "I am thrilled that Fields is joining us here at RYSA. He brings an energy and passion for the game that is contagious. He is a great teacher, and can relate his message to kids of all ages. He is going to do a great job as the Director of our Academy Program."