Palomar College Men's Soccer

Coach Linenberger has over 35 years experience in coaching and teaching soccer at all levels.  Over 10 of these years have been as a mens four year college coach and faculty member at Division I, II, III and NAIA institutions including Fresno State, Sacramento State and San Francisco State Universities.   He  has worked as a National Staff coach for US Soccer recruiting and coaching US Youth National Teams at the U14, U17 and U20 levels and instructing & licensing coaches through the US Soccer National Coaching schools A, B, C National Licenses.  He has coached at the US Olympic Sports Festival as well as Regional and State Olympic Development Program teams taking these select groups internationally to compete against some of the top clubs in the world such as AC Milan, Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, VfB Stuttgart.  He has had experience coaching high school boys soccer as well as working as a Technical Director in several state youth associations running their ODP.  Before moving back to San Diego, he worked eight years as the Assistant Director of Soccer and coach at a full-time residential soccer academy; Shattuck-St. Marys.  While at SSM he had the privilege to coach three NSCAA High School All-Americans, National Youth Team players from the USA; Canada: Sweden; Germany and Finland.  His teams played in one US Club Soccer National Final and three Minnesota State Cup Finals earning one Regional Tournament appearance.  He has a Masters Degree in Exercise Science from San Francisco State University and Bachelors Degree in Sports Medicine from San Diego State where he was a four year letterman.  He also possess a California Community Colleges Instructor Credential in Physical Education.  He has taught a variety of Physical Education activity courses as well as classroom courses such as Human Anatomy & Physiology and Kinesiology.  He holds a US Soccer Federation National A coaching license, a B coaching license from the Scottish Football Association, a Brazilian international coaching license and an Advanced Coaching Certificate from the Netherlands.  He has coached and help develop numerous national team and professional players.