Staff Spotlight:
Rocky Orezzoli
Beginning February,
2009,
Rocky Orezzoli will be our new Girls Director of Coaching. In this
his 19th year with Team Boca, Coach Rocky brings vast experience to
the newly created position which puts him at the helm of the daily
on-field activities of our girls program. At
one time or another Rocky has coached just about every age girl’s
team in our program. Most recently Rocky led our Girls U14
team to the State Cup Final Four in 2008. Coach Rocky recently
resigned from Lynn University, where concluded his tenth and final
season coaching the women’s soccer team. Just the second person ever to hold such a
position, Orezzoli assumed control of the LU women’s program in 1998
after serving as an assistant coach the previous five seasons. He
produced immediate results, leading the Fighting Knights to the 1998
NCAA Division II National Title and has led Lynn to a very
impressive winning record since.
A native of Queens,
N.Y. who spent time on Long Island before moving to Florida at an
early, age, Orezzoli played his high school soccer at Piper High
School in Sunrise before attending Florida Atlantic University where
he played four years of soccer. Playing both as a midfielder and
defender, Orezzoli became the school’s first-ever four-year letter
winner in men’s soccer. A 1989 FAU grad with a bachelor’s degree in
accounting, Orezzoli then passed the Certified Public Accountant’s
examination. Since graduating from FAU, Orezzoli has been involved
in women’s soccer at nearly every level. He served as the head
girl’s soccer coach at Boca Raton’s St. Andrew’s Prep for six years
before taking over the program at Spanish River for five seasons,
putting together an impressive 128-14-7 while leading the Sharks.
His teams won five district titles and made three Final Four
appearances, winning state titles in 1996 and 1997. He earned a
number of awards during his stay at Spanish River, earning numerous
Coach of the Year honors in the process.
Rocky has a US
Soccer Federation National Coaching license and is certainly one of
the most experienced and respected coaches in the state.
