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Coach Bill Loss. (Contributed)

SPASH names new boys soccer coach

By Patrick Lynn

SPASH will soon have a new varsity boys soccer coach.

Bill Loss brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the boys soccer program, with over 30 years of coaching soccer at various levels.

Loss started his coaching career in the DC Everest School district serving as the boys head coach from 1993-1997. He then initiated the girls program in 1993, remaining as that program’s head coach for seven years.

Afterward, he relocated to work as executive director of the Madison Area Youth Soccer Association, also assisting girls high school team at McFarland High School. Loss is currently a coaching in the Wisconsin Youth Soccer Association of West Allis, and is a board member and coaches multiple teams in the Beaver Dam United Soccer Club.

“SPASH has a long and storied history of success,” Loss said in a press release. “It will be our goal to build off past successes, maximize the development of each player, and push the program to new heights — where excellence in all that we do is the expectation.”

Loss has also been a soccer official at the NCAA Division 1 and 3 Levels in Conference USA, The Horizon League, and the WIAC. Loss also served as a WIAA High School soccer official, including officiating the Wisconsin State tournament five times.

Loss holds the following coaching accreditations:

  • National C License (In Progress) – U.S. Soccer
  • National D License – U.S. Soccer
  • Advanced National Diploma – United Soccer Coaches Association
  • National Diploma – United Soccer Coaches Association
  • Regional Diploma – United Soccer Coaches Association

“We are fortunate to have Coach Loss ready and willing to lead this program,” said David Hauser, SPASH athletic director. “He has a lot of experience as a former head coach and club director. In addition, he brings a passion for the sport of soccer and a desire to build the SPASH boys program into a dominant one. We are thrilled that he is willing to share that with our student-athletes.”