Cliff McCrath
	Hometown: Detroit, MI Residence: Seattle, WA 19-time Conference Coach of the Year 1986 National Coach of the Year Second Winningest coach in collegiate soccer 5 time NCAA Champion College All-American Seattle Sports Star of the Year Secretary-Editor NCAA Soccer Rules Committee Executive Director NISOA Sounder FC Golden Scarf Recipent Bill Jeffrey Award US Soccer Hall of Fame member

Cliff directs overall camp operations, and participates throughout the summer in overseeing every area of the camp program. He has even promised to resurrect some of the famous skits from earlier years, and may even be coaxed to tell ‘The Story of the Nub!!!’ Elite Week campers will not want to miss his session on Maximizing Strategies for Personal and Team Performance! A Must!

From the inception of Northwest Soccer Camp, Cliff and his highly professional staff have insisted that every aspect of the program be closely supervised, lovingly scrutinized, and carefully given personal attention. It is a ‘practice what is preached’ approach to daily camp administration.

C. Cliff McCrath's teams have produced one of the most enviable records in collegiate soccer. His personal credits include some of the following:

He is No. 2 in all-time collegiate coaching victories, and is among an exclusive handful of coaches to have directed his teams to five NCAA Championships. Such accomplishments have not gone unnoticed.

In 1993 he joined another elite group with his induction into the United States Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York. He was already a hall of fame member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and Wheaton College.

Success shined upon soccer at the Queen Anne campus while McCrath's teams qualified for the NCAA playoffs nearly every year, including several trips to the title game. As his teams’ headmaster and spiritual leader, McCrath has taken a once-struggling program and systematically shaped it into one of the most successful teams in Division II history. His teams have been in 10 national championship games winning five National Championships, including the only back-to-back crowns in Div. II annals in 1985-86. Their first crown came in 1978, when McCrath was National Coach of the Year. At the same time, he has climbed to No. 2 on the all-time coaching victory list with over 597 wins.

Although the trademarks of McCrath’s teams are teamwork and unselfishness, there is not only ample opportunity for players to reach their true potential, but to showcase individual talent as well. In fact, 36 players have been drafted by professional teams during the past 20 years. Two ex-Falcons were regular starters for Major League Soccer teams in 1999. McCrath also has instilled in those young men the desire to give back to the community and to the game. Over a hundred of his former players, including 77 McCrath alumni, have also followed in his footsteps and are now coaching in the high school and collegiate ranks.

The fact is that many of those feats are sometimes forgotten by former players, fans and friends. They appreciate McCrath more so for his humor and personal touch. While his office is seemingly always abuzz with a wide variety of activities, he always puts people first. It is that quality which adds the final coat of luster to McCrath’s mantle.

He has run the extremely popular Northwest Soccer Camp for 39 summers, providing fundamentals for such current international stars as Kasey Keller and Michelle Akers. He is the senior member of the NCAA rules committee, serving as secretary-editor. In 1971 he founded the Northwest Collegiate Soccer Conference and served as its executive director for 22 years. He was the founding chairman of the board of directors for Soccer in the Streets and served seven years on the National Athletic Trainers Association executive board. McCrath serves on the advisory board for Diadora USA and in 1994 he was World Cup Ambassador for Sprint.

Charles Clifford McCrath was born February 3, 1936 in Detroit. He has a grown daughter, Stacey, and son, Steve, plus two grandchildren.