Jim Rickard

After The Salvation Army distributes food boxes to 200 senior citizens on Tuesday, the organization will have touched about 4,000 people in Pitt County, said Salvation Army Captain Jim Rickard.

Former Hart High girls soccer head coach Jose Leon and The Master's College's current men's soccer head coach Jim Rickard have joined forces as technical directors for the Select Cities Soccer Club, a youth organization formed by Leon just over two years ago.
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Now with Rickard in the mix, he will focus on the girls teams while Rickard will lend his expertise toward directing the boys teams.

While each squad will have its own head coaches with Leon and Rickard not able to attend all of the games at the same time, they'll be the ones in charge of all teams, coaching the coaches.
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"I'll set up what we want to accomplish," Rickard said.
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No player, Rickard said, will be stuck playing only one position.Whereas as the coach of the Mustangs at the college level, he'd put the best goalkeeper in goal and the best scorer at forward, he'll give the kids variety.

"Winning says that if someone's your best goalie, they play there every game," he said.
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With Rickard on board, Leon is expecting more growth in teams.
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Rickard, who was selected as the National Christian College Athletic Association Coach of the Year this season, was a former team captain as a player for the Mustangs.

"We wanted to kind of provide a starter platform for the school year for kids whose parents might not have the money to purchase all of those materials right now," Salvation Army Capt. Jim Rickard said."We think this will kind of get the kids jump-started for the school year."

The bags were purchased from Wal-Mart, which also donated some materials, Rickard said.Pencils, erasers, paper, notebooks, hand sanitizer and a few other things Rickard believes students will find useful were distributed with the bags.

"I think we gave them a good variety of things with the bags," Rickard said.

Former Hart High girls soccer head coach Jose Leon and The Master's College's current men's soccer head coach Jim Rickard have joined forces as technical directors for the Select Cities Soccer Club, a youth organization formed by Leon just over two years ago.

December 17 - Salvation Army - Jim Rickard

Les Garner presents a check to Jim Rickard of the Salvation Army for $3465.