Michigan State soccer hires Thomas Wilcher as director of neighborhood, highschool relations


Michigan State soccer made it official: A former Wolverine is becoming a member of Mel Tucker’s employees.

Detroit Cass Tech head coach Thomas Wilcher, who performed operating again at Michigan within the Nineteen Eighties and has turn into one of the crucial profitable highschool coaches within the state, has been employed by MSU as director of neighborhood and highschool relations, the varsity introduced on Wednesday.

He will probably be tasked with constructing and coordinating “relationships with key teams within the state of Michigan to boost the attain and engagement of Spartan soccer in the neighborhood.”

“I’ve identified Coach Wilcher for almost 20 years. His expertise teaching, instructing and mentoring youth all through his whole profession have had an incredible affect on college students in Detroit who’ve gone on to make a distinction within the state and throughout the nation. Our program is trying to have an expanded presence in the neighborhood and Thomas is the proper particular person to take care of and strengthen strategic partnerships for Michigan State soccer.”

Wilcher led Cass Tech to a few state championships (2011, 2012, 2016) and one other runner-up end, successful 190 of his 260 video games over 23 seasons.

The Free Press discovered of MSU’s plan to rent Wilcher final month.

“I at all times mentioned it will be wonderful if somebody would rent my head coach,” Belleville coach Jermain Crowell mentioned final month; he served as Wilcher’s defensive coordinator for seven seasons. “He’s been saying it for years, he needed to teach and get to the school stage.

“Someone discovered worth in him, appears like.”

Wilcher has had eight gamers drafted by NFL groups and Cass Tech is one among 5 state excessive colleges that had a number of lively NFL gamers final season.

Jourdan Lewis, Delano Hill, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Michael Onwenu, William Campbell and Joe Barksdale are a number of the Technicians who’ve performed within the NFL.

This offseason, one other former Wolverine-turned-high faculty coach, West Bloomfield’s Ron Bellamy, was employed by U-M.

Contact Kirkland Crawford: kcrawford@freepress.com. Comply with him on Twitter @HiKirkHere.

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