Dominic Coco has over 15 years of coaching experience which started in the state of New York where Dominic is originally from. He started his coaching career as a youth coach at Empire United. He quickly expanded his talents to high school, and was a volunteer assistant at his alma mater Roberts Wesleyan College.
Dominic currently holds a US National Coaching D License. As a college athlete at Roberts, Dominic was a 4-year player, earned All Region honors and was an All-American his senior year. Dominic and his team won the AMC Conference Championship and also competed in the NCCAA National tournament during his Freshman and Senior seasons.
After college, Dominic went on to play professionally in the Major Arena Soccer League playing for his hometown club Rochester Lancers under Head Coach Doug Miller and Owner Sam Fantauzzo. This is the same franchise his grandfather Frank Tata played with in the late 60s.
After Rochester, Dominic signed his second contract with the Detroit Waza Flo under Dominic and Mario Scicluna. It was against the Harrisburg Heat that Dominic scored his first professional goal.
Dominic and his wife Nancy moved to Tampa, Florida in the summer of 2017, where Dominic became a PE school teacher and Varsity boys soccer coach at Lennard High School. Dominic went on to make Lennard school history as the only boy’s soccer coach to make it all the way to a District Finals appearance. Dominic then took over the Head Coaching role at Springstead High school where he was named District 10 5A Coach of The Year in 2022 and Gulf Coast Conference Coach of the year in 2023.
Dominic started his college coaching career in Florida working under former Head Coach Robert Rivers III as an assistant coach at Trinity College of Florida. Dominic was named the new Head Coach in the spring of 2022. Dominic and his wife Nancy Coco currently reside in Port Richey Florida with their daughter Emma Grace and Chihuahua named Norman.
