Camp Director
Camp Director - Michael Sabatelle
"Sabo"
sabatelle@comcast.net
Co-Director - Edgar Flores
Current Assistant Women's Soccer Coach NCAA Division I Georgia State University and Head Women's Soccer Coach at The Galloway School. Led the 2008 Galloway team to their first-ever Area Championship and first berth in the HS State Playoffs, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen.
Club Coach for Gwinnett Soccer Association (GSA) and Inter Atlanta.
Former Head Women's Soocer Coach Oxford College of Emory University. Compiled an impressive 75-34-8 record during his time at Oxford College and led the Eagles to their most successful season ever in 2006 by winning 18 of 20 matches, winning Regional and District Championships and eventually losing on penalty kicks in the National Final Four Championships.
During his time as head coach, Flores guided the Oxford program to back-to-back Regional NJCAA Division I Championship Final Four appearances, in spite of being the only non-scholarship program in the Region during that time. Coach Flores’ team shattered team records in goals scored, team goals against average, shutouts, and All-Region and All-American selections. At Oxford, Coach Flores produced more than 16 All-Region Players, an impressive 18 NJCAA Academic All-Americans, one NJCAA Division I All-American, three NJCAA Division III All-American, and two NSCAA All-Americans. His teams also traveled internationally and conducted preseason training in top soccer academies in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.
Along with the experience gained from coaching at the collegiate level and playing the sport throughout his life at different levels of competition, Flores also has been able to add to his playing experience by coaching at different levels in Florida and in Georgia, highlighted by a State Club Championship while coaching with the Blue Angels Club in Miami, Florida. Flores holds the NSCAA’s Advanced National Diploma, National Diploma, and Euro 1996 Match Analysis Diploma. Flores has worked with many professional sports teams, including the Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, Miami Heat, and different professional and collegiate athletes in promotions and sports marketing.
As the son of a former professional soccer player, Flores was exposed to soccer at an early age. The former division III head coach was born in Nicaragua and spent much of his youth attending professional men’s soccer practices and matches where his father either played or coached and his father was inducted into the Nicaragua Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004. Flores holds an undergraduate degree in Physical Education K-12 from Florida International University and a master’s degree in Sports Administration from Georgia State University. Coach Flores is married and resides in Atlanta. |
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Michael Sabatelle
Assistant Head Girls Soccer Coach
The Galloway School
2008 Area X Champion
2008 State Playoffs Sweet Sixteen
Lecturer - Oxford College of Emory University
Division of Physical Education and Dance
2007-current
Assistant Head Women's Soccer Coach
Oxford College of Emory University 2005-2007
2006 NJCAA-III National Championship Final Four
Head Women's Soccer Coach
Emory University 1988-2005
Eight NCAA Division III Tournaments
Four University Athletic Association Championships
UAA "Coach of the Year"
1989, 1994, 1998, 2004
Head Coach W-League Atlanta Classics 1997-2000
W-League "Coach of the Year" 1997
Final Four 1999
National Championship Tournament 1997
*USSF "A" licensed coach
*NATA Certified Athletic Trainer
*HS and Collegiate Soccer Referee
*National Chair NSCAA/adidas Collegiate
Women's Scholar All-America Committee
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Michael "Sabo" Sabatelle has been a pioneer and promoter of girls and women’s soccer in Atlanta for over 20 years. Sabo (sab-O) was the Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Emory University for 18 years and the Director of the Girls Soccer Camps from 1989-2005. His Atlanta-based Girls Soccer Camps are the “oldest girls only soccer camps in Georgia."
In 2008, Sabo will direct the 20th annual Atlanta Girls Soccer Camps. The camps will feature the same great individualized attention, technical and tactical instruction and video analysis.
Sabatelle, a four-time University Athletic Association (UAA) conference Coach of the Year, was the Emory head coach from 1988-2004 and posted a 212-85-32 record, a .693 winning percentage. He guided the Eagles to eight NCAA Division III national tournament appearances and four UAA championships, including the 2004 title in his final season. In his last seven years at Emory he recorded a record of 98-22-17, an impressive .777 winning percentage. In 1999, the Eagles set the second longest unbeaten streak, 29 games, in NCAA Division III women's soccer history.
Sabo is currently a full-time lecturer for the Division of Physical Education and Dance at Oxford College of Emory University. He is also the Assistant Head Girls Soocer Coach for The Galloway School. In 2008 he helped lead the team to their first-ever Area Championship and the first bid in school history to the Girls HS Soccer State Playoffs.
Sabo was the Head Athletic Trainer at Oxford College of Emory University and Assistant Head Coach of the women's soccer team. In 2006, Sabo helped lead the Oxford women to a #1 national NJCAA ranking, to the Region and District Championships and to the NJCAA-III Final Four. Three players were named to the 2006 NJCAA All-America team one was also a NSCAA All-America. In 2005, Sabatelle helped guide Oxford to their second consecutive Regional Final Four and assisted in developing their first-ever female soccer NJCAA and NSCAA All-America player.
Sabo traveled with the Oxford team to Spain (2006) and Brazil (2004), he led the Emory team for pre-season training in Australia (2003) and to Scotland, Wales and England (2000). The new millenium trip was the first-ever international varsity athletic team trip in Emory University history.
Sabatelle is a certified high school, collegiate and United States Soccer Federation (USSF) soccer referee. He is the current national chair of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Women’s Collegiate Scholar Athlete All-America committee for NCAA Divisions I, II, III and the NAIA. Sabo is one of the rare individuals in NCAA and NJCAA women's soccer history to coach a team in the national championship tournament one year and officiate in the national tournament in consecutive seasons. Coach - NCAA tournament (D-III women '04) Refereee NCAA's (D-II women '05), Coach - NJCAA (D-III Final Four '06) Assistant Referee NJCAA (D-I National Championship Game '07).
Sabatelle is the former head coach and owner of the W-League Atlanta Classics. He led the first-year women's franchise to the South Division title and the W-League National Championship tournament in 1997 and was honored as the W-League "Coach of the Year.” In 1999 he led the Classics to the Final Four its second appearance in the national tournament in three years.
Sabo holds a USSF "A" coaching license and has international coaching experience, assisting with the U.S. National youth boys' soccer teams during CONCACAF competition in Trinidad (gold medal) and the former Soviet Union. Sabatelle was a long-time staff coach for the Georgia Olympic Development Program (ODP) for girls and coached the Georgia Women's Senior State Select Team.
Sabatelle is certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association, is a licensed athletic trainer in the State of Georgia, served as Emory's head athletic trainer from 1986-1988 and associate athletic trainer from 1988-2004, he also taught physical education classes for the Department of Health, Physical Education and Dance at Emory for 20 years.
Sabatelle recorded the 200th win of his Emory career with a 1-0 victory Sept. 4, 2004, against Mary Washington (Va.), then ranked 17th in the nation. He became the 15th women's soccer coach in NCAA Division III history and the 37th in any NCAA division to reach the 200-win plateau for his career. He picked up his 100th career victory on Oct. 20, 1996, when Emory defeated N.C. Wesleyan, 2-1, in overtime. At the end of his tenure Sabatelle ranked 38th all-time among all NCAA coaches for career wins. Among active Division III coaches, he was 12th in career wins and 36th in career winning percentage. Sabatelle and his assistants were recognized as the UAA "Coaching Staff of the Year" in 1989, 1994, 1998 and 2004.
Sabatelle also contributed his time to the NSCAA by coordinating its national ranking and All-America committees. He was the field director and television spotter for the Atlanta Beat of the WUSA. In 1996 Sabatelle was the Chief Spotter for FIFA during the Centennial Olympic Men’s and Women’s Soccer Games played at the University of Georgia.
Sabatelle played four years of NCAA soccer at State University of New York at Plattsburgh where he earned an undergraduate degree in health education. He received his master's degree in exercise science from Georgia State University.
He and his wife, Pat D'Alba, have donated their time to the City of Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain City Vision, American Red Cross, Atlanta High Museum of Art, Habitat for Humanity, Soccer For Peace and the Georgia Special Olympics. Sabatelle is currently the President of Atlanta Women's Soccer, Inc. |
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